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

• Derived from the larger Zeus Molecular visualisation 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

Athena is derived from the larger Zeus project and is an experimental molecular visualisation project. Athena uses the Sun (now Oracle)  Java-3d visualisation library that wraps OpenGL/DirectX. Designed to run on the Solaris Unix operating system Athena also runs on Windows via the Java Virtual Machine.

Unlike Zeus which employs the LWJGL (Light-weight Java Gaming Library), Athena makes use of the Java-3d rendering libraries. The LWJGL is an OpenGL wrapper that simply exposes OpenGL functions to Java whereas Java-3d uses an object orientated means of  constructing directed acyclic graphs to generate the rendering scene which it then uses OpenGL/DirectX to render.

 Peptide structure “Ribbon”

• 3d Bezier “Bernstein” function through peptide/nucleic acid backbone

• Supports ribbon, line or tube rendering

Flexible colour configuration Select invididual Atom colours Background colour/Gradient colours Highlight residue/nucleic acid colour Residue/Nucleic acid type colours Colouring of residues (CPK, by type etc..)

Download and install Athena

Athena for Oracle/Sun Solaris Unix (Sparc-32) 

[ Download Zip of Jar built for Oracle/Sun Solaris 32-Bit (~4.4mb) ]

1. Unzip contents of Zip file into the /usr/athena/ folder (which will need to be created)
2. To run

• Copy a link to the the run-athena.sh script to your Desktop or run from
  OR
• Run athena directly:
  cd /usr/athena
  java -Djava.library.path=. -jar ./Athena-sparc-32.jar

Athena for Microsoft Windows (x86)

[ Download Installer EXE built for Microsoft Windows 32/64-Bit (~11.6mb) ]

1. Athena windows is provided as a self-contained EXE installer program
2. Creates two batch files and shortcuts to run 32 bit and 64-bit versions on the JVM.
3. A 32/64-bit JVM (Java Virtual Machine) must be available via the path.
4. Java-3d libraries are provided with the installer, should you wish to install them manually they are freely available from Oracle's Java3d website (ensure the correct version is downloaded).

Athena for Linux (x86)

[ Download Jar built for Linux 64-Bit (~5mb) ]
[ Download Jar built for Linux 32-Bit (~5mb) ]

1. Athena Linux is provided as a self-contained JAR
2. A 64-bit JVM (Java Virtual Machine) must be available via the path.

NB: Linux version requires setting the "executable bit". Once downloaded right-click and navigate to "properties->permissions." Turn "executable" bit on. and open with Java runtime environment.