3Dee - Database of Protein Domain Definitions

Installing the 3Dee Rasmol interface

This is a quick and easy method for setting up the Rasmol interface on your system. It has the disadvantage that a new Rasmol window is started every time a rasmol script is requested from the server. SCOP also has two interfaces to Rasmol (a basic one and an advanced tk/tcl interface). The 3Dee Rasmol scripts are compatible with the SCOP interface. Information on setting up the SCOP interface can be found here (instructions on setting up a Macintosh Interface are also given).

Necessary steps for a UNIX computer

1. Obtain a local copy of PDB (note files must be of the form pdbxxxx.ent)
2. Get a copy of Rasmol The complete source code and user documentation may be obtained by anonymous FTP from ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk [129.215.160.5] in the directory /pub/rasmol.
3. set the enviroment variable RASMOLPDBPATH to the directory containing all the PDB files (in one large directory). For example:
   

   setenv RASMOLPDBPATH /usr/local/data/pdb

4. add the following line to your .mailcap file in your home directory
   

   application/x-rasmol; xterm -e rasmol -script %s