University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute

DX and PDB Files

A package has been installed to allow DX to read in PDB files. These files are from the Data Explorer Reposity at the Cornell Theory Center (http://www.tc.cornell.edu/DX/). The following is a description of the package, taken from the README file.

This suite of modules and macros is designed to facilitate molecular modeling with the IBM AIX Visualization Data Explorer software package. Our intent here is not to reproduce or replace any existing modeling packages but rather to provide a highly flexible environment for constructing visual programs uniquely tailored to specific research applications. This package also includes tools designed to facilitate chemistry animation production.

To use this package, do the following:

  1. setenv DXSHMEM 1
  2. dx -macros /usr/local/lpp/dx/CMSP/macros -mdf /usr/local/lpp/dx/CMSP/outboards.mdf

To learn more about this package, open some of the programs in /usr/local/lpp/dx/CMSP/example_nets. You probably want to open the programs with 3.1 in the name.

Written by Barry Schaudt, schaudt@msi.umn.edu
Last modified: July 31, 1996