VIWISH - A VISUALIZATION SERVER FOR PROTEIN MODELING AND DOCKING

A visualisation tool viwish for proteins based on the Tcl command lang uage has been developed. The system is completely menu driven and can display arbitrary many proteins in arbitrary many windows. It is insta ntly to use, even for non computer experts and provides possibilities to modify menus, configurations, and windows. It may be used as a stan d-alone molecular graphics package or as a graphics server for externa l programs. Communication with these client applications is establishe d even across different machines (through the send command of Tk, an e xtension of Tel). In addition, a wide range of chemical data like mole cular surfaces and 3D gridded samplings of chemical features can be di splayed. Therefore the system is especially useful for the development of algorithms that need visual inspection and verification of externa lly computed results like docked conformations or molecular surface sh apes. The system is distributed freely, including the source code [1].