MINIMAGE - A PROGRAM FOR PLOTTING ELECTRON-DENSITY MAPS

MINIMAGE is a program that enables the molecular structure plotting pr ograms MAXIMAGE ((C) M. Rould) and MOLSCRIPT (C) P. Kraulis) to draw e lectron-density maps. Thus, electron-density drawings can be combined with different renderings of molecular-structure models. The user spec ifies electron-density contouring, coordinate transformation and selec tion parameters. The program produces an input file for subsequent pro grams that contains plotting instructions and electron-density contour ing information, and two files in the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank for mat, one containing selected atomic coordinates and the other containi ng electron-density vertices. MINIMAGE is designed to work on both VAX /VMS and Unix-based operation systems.