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Athena Molecular Viewe, Visualisation software for Sun (Sparc) Solaris Unix

Athena Molecular viewer (supports Solaris)

Technologies employed: [Linux/Solaris versions] Java/Sun Java3D

• Derived from the larger Zeus Molecular visualization project
• Rotate, Translate and Zoom into the molecular model
• Calculate Hydrogen bonds
• View atoms and bonds within molecules.
• Display molecular model residue sequence
• Exhaustive Atom and Bond Lists

Supports various industry & academic standard file formats:

• Brookhaven PDB
• Mol format
• XYZ format

Remote Download a PDB from RSCB server: User can also customize the request URL.

Rendering modes

• Wireframe
• Ball and Stick
• Ball and Wire
• Cylinders
• Triangular Tubes
• Square Tubes
• Space-filling - uses Van der Waal's Radii to size atoms appropriately

Peptide structure "Ribbon"

• 3D Bezier Bernstein function through peptide/nucleic acid backbone
• Supports ribbon, line, or tube rendering

Flexible color configuration

• Select individual Atom colors
• Background color/Gradient colors
• Highlight residue/nucleic acid color
• Residue/Nucleic acid type colors
• Coloring of residues (CPK, by type, etc.)