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RasMol is a computer program written for molecular graphics visualization intended and used mainly to depict and explore biological macromolecule structures, such as those found in the Protein Data Bank (PDB).

Key facts

Software.name
RasMol
Software.screenshot
Rasmol1.png
Software.screenshot alt
Black background with complex ribbon diagram of a protein, colored blue on top, green on bottom.
Software.caption
RasMol ribbon diagram rendering of TRAF2 trimer PDB:1DOA
Software.author
Roger A. Sayle
Software.developer
Herbert J. Bernstein
Software.latest release version
2.7.5.1
Software.programming language
C
Software.operating system
Unix, Windows
Software.platform
IA-32, x86-64
Software.language
English
Software.genre
Molecular graphics
Software.license
GPL

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Encyclopedic overview

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RasMol is a computer program written for molecular graphics visualization intended and used mainly to depict and explore biological macromolecule structures, such as those found in the Protein Data Bank (PDB).

==History== It was originally developed by Roger Sayle in the early 1990s.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RasMol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.