Deepview
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Introduction
DeepView(previously Swiss-PdbViewer) is a program for molecular visualization, analysis and modeling developed by Nicolas Guex(GlaxoSmithKline R&D). It can be used for structural alignments of proteins, studying mutations, finding H-bonds, calculating bond angles and distances between atoms etc.,
Deepview can also be used for homology modeling in combination with SWISS-MODEL, an automated homology modeling server at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
Package details
- Format: Gzipped Tar Archive
- Source Code: NA
- Version: 3.7 SP5
- License: Freeware
- Developer(s): Nicolas Guex, Alexander Diemand,Torsten Schwede & Manuel C. Peitsch
- Website:http://www.expasy.org/spdbv
- Download: http://www.expasy.org/spdbv/text/disclaim.htm
- Requirements: - OpenGL, openmotif-2.2.2
- FAQ: http://www.expasy.org/spdbv/text/faq.htm
Installation
Linux
- Download the file spdbv37sp5-Linux.tar.gz after accepting the license agreement.
- Uncompress the file spdbv37sp5-Linux.tar.gz into a temporary directory (ex: temp)
mkdir temp
cd temp
Assuming spdbv37sp5-Linux.tar.gz is downloaded to the /data directory,
tar zxvf /data/spdbv37sp5-Linux.tar.gz
- The above step will create a folder called SPDBV_DISTRIBUTION in the temp directory. Change into that folder and run the install script
cd SPDBV_DISTRIBUTION
./install.sh
- Where to install?
Choose globally(G) if you have root access. Otherwise local(L) to install in the HOME directory. For some other location select O
Running
DeepView can be launched by using the command spdbv
