Take a look at "The Ramachandran Plot Explorer" <http://www.dillgroup.ucsf.edu/~bosco/rama.html> Does not do exactly what you want, but it is worth a look. Ciao! mario Eric Martz wrote: > [Apologies if you already received this via pdb-l] > > I have been looking for interactive visualizations of phi/psi to help > convey the steric basis for the Ramachandran plot. Ideally, I would like: > > 1. Model freely rotatable with the mouse, to view from any perspective, > 2. Phi and psi angles freely and independently rotatable, > 3. Unequivocal visual indication of van der Waals collisions, such as > those great red baskets in KiNG. > > These two below are much less important than 1-3 above. > 4. Visualization in browser rather than stand-alone application. > 5. Works on OSX and linux as well as Windows. > > Please let me know of resources with any of these capabilities. > > The closest I have found is the kinemage 2literacy.kin by Simon Lovell at > http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/~lovell/kins.shtml > This has 1 and 2 above, but neither 3 nor 4. Is there some way to turn > on the red collision baskets in this kinemage? Could it be shown in > KiNG, or would that sacrifice the slider controls? > > Other useful resources I've found are > > - An animated gif at > http://speedy.st-and.ac.uk/~naismith/teaching/lectures/3014/lecture/Rama_animationhtm.htm > > that shows separate, side by side "canned" rotations, by J.H. Naismith. > Meets none of 1-4 above, but does convey the general idea clearly and > quickly. > > - A rather nice quicktime movie from Univ. Wisc. La Crosse > http://visu.uwlax.edu/BioChem/Rotate.mov > This partially meets #1 above (via the quicktime slider) but the > non-standard element colors make it very confusing. > > Thanks, -Eric > > /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology > U Mass, Amherst -- http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz > > Biochem 3D Education Resources http://MolviZ.org > See 3D Molecules, Install Nothing! - http://firstglance.jmol.org > Protein Explorer - 3D Visualization: http://proteinexplorer.org > Workshops: http://workshops.proteinexplorer.org > World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources: http://molvisindex.org > ConSurf - Find Conserved Patches in Proteins: http://consurf.tau.ac.il > Atlas of Macromolecules: http://atlas.proteinexplorer.org > PDB Lite Macromolecule Finder: http://pdblite.org > Molecular Visualization EMail List (molvis-list): > http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - */ > > _______________________________________________ > Molvis-list mailing list > Molvis-list at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list > -- Ing. Mario Valle Visualization Group | http://www.cscs.ch/~mvalle Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.60 v. Cantonale Galleria 2, 6928 Manno, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82