Pymol

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Pymol is a molecular visualisation program. It is NOT installed on all the clusters or workstations as we do not currently have a license. You can find in ~csw34/bin on both clust and mek-quake and run it from there. The advantages Pymol has over VMD come from (a) the quality of the graphics you can produce as it has a built in ray-tracing facility (b) better handling of multiple structures and alignment. It does have downsides, namely that getting many of these options to work is not as easy as with VMD when you have a simple GUI to work with. It also runs slower as it is more graphics intensive (which is amplified as you're running it over the network) so if you are hoping to visualise a large molecule, VMD might be a better option. The below tutorials will hopefully illuminate some of the most useful options!

Tutorials