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CCP4 Molecular Graphics Documentation |  |
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Documentation Contents
General
- Graphics window - mouse bindings and short cuts
- The display table - control the data and display objects
- The View menu
- The Display menu
- Projects - data organisation
- Installation of support programs
- Compiling CCP4MG
Molecular models
- Reading coordinate files and atom typing
- The Coordinate Model Interface
- Atom selection
- Structure Analysis
- Surfaces and Electrostatic Potentials
- Symmetry Related Models
- Animations
- PISA Analysis of Model Interfaces
Other types of data
Applications
- Superpose automatic protein superposition and interactive superposition of any structures
- Presentation Graphics
- Picture Wizard set up complex pictures quickly
- Movies
- Presentations
- Geometry
- Run Coot
Other utilities
- Lighting
- Saving the program status
- Picture Definition Files (also Object attributes and Introduction to Python)
- Making presentations
Quick Reference
See Display Table for general overview of the display table.
| File | Edit | View | Display | Applications |
| Open.. | Paste | View history | Display history | File viewer |
| Download data.. | For all data.. | Recentre | Clear picked labels | Superpose models |
| Restore.. | For all display objects | Find,centre on.. | Toolbar | Movie editor |
| Edit/show presentation | Save/restore status | View from | Depth queue fog | Picture Wizard |
| Create object | Split screen | Clip front/back | Run Coot | |
| Get tutorial data | Rock and roll | Clip and fog details | Geometry | |
| Save status to file | Axes | Pisa structure analysis | ||
| Save as default status | Background colour | |||
| Screenshot | Stereo | |||
| Print screen | Solid smoothing | |||
| Render | Animate display | |||
| Lighting |
Windows Bring a 'lost' window to the front.
On-line help
- ./MG//ccp4mg_help/index.html has the latest help pages which may have more information.
Contact Us
CCP4mg developers can be contacted at ccp4mg@ccp4.ac.uk
References
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Presenting your structures: the CCP4mg molecular-graphics software
S. McNicholas, E. Potterton, K. S. Wilson and M. E. M. Noble
Acta Cryst. (2011). D67, 386-394 -
Developments in the CCP4 molecular-graphics project
L. Potterton, S. McNicholas, E. Krissinel, J. Gruber, K. Cowtan, P. Emsley, G. N. Murshudov, S. Cohen, A. Perrakis and M. Noble
Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2288-2294 -
The CCP4 molecular-graphics project
E. Potterton, S. McNicholas, E. Krissinel, K. Cowtan and M. Noble
Acta Cryst. (2002). D58, 1955-1957 -
If you use the remote blast service at the EBI you should refer to:
Web services at the European Bioinformatics Institute-2009
Nucl. Acids Res. (2009) doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp302
A new bioinformatics analysis tools framework at EMBL-EBI
Nucl. Acids Res. (2010) 38 (suppl 2): W695-W699. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq313
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If you use PISA you should refer to:
Inference of macromolecular assemblies from crystalline state.
E. Krissinel and K. Henrick (2007).
J. Mol. Biol. 372, 774-797.