PDBjViewer


PDBjViewer(version 1)
  Visualization of structure and surface of molecules is performed by a Java applet program called 'PDBjViewer(version 1)'. The program 'PDBjViewer(version 1)' has been developed by Kengo Kinoshita (The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo) and Haruki Nakamura (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka Univeristy), as one of the activities of Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBj), supported by grant-in-aid from Institute for Bioinformatics Research and Development, Japan Science and TechnologyCorporation (BIRD-JST). The PDBjViewer Version 1 is freely distributed from this Web page.
  Two image windows are opened. The structure of the molecule is shown in the left window and the molecular surface is displayed in the right window. The mouse control is as follows.

action Windows
rotate x, y
zoom
translate x, y		 left
Alt + left
right

In order to use PDBjViewer(version 1), Java Plug-in and Java 3D API must be installed on your computer. The version requirements are as follows.
· JRE (includes Java Plug-in) 1.4.1 or later (recommend 1.4.2)
· Java 3D API (OpenGL) 1.2.1 or later (recommend 1.2.1_04)
Important notes
  • You can select two kinds of implementation of Java 3D, OpenGL version and DirectX version. But, PDBjViewer(version 1) only work with OpenGL version at present.
  • PDBjViewer(version 1) does not work with JRE from 1.4.1_03 to 1.4.1_06.

  PDBjViewer(version 1) can be used as a stand-alone program as well as an applet with the same requirements as above. In addition to mouse controls, a command line interface is provided.

jV version 2
  jV version 2 is an advanced version of PDBjViewer(version 1), which can be used only as a stand-alone program. It enables to display more than one molecule images at the same time and their display models and transforms can be operated separately. An animation of molecules can be also performed. jV version 2 runs with .NET framework 1.1 on the Windows platform. Therefore the .NET framework must be installed on your computer.

Download jV & PDBjViewer   [ binary , source code ]


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