MINIMAGE - A PROGRAM FOR PLOTTING ELECTRON-DENSITY MAPS

MINIMAGE is a program that enables the molecular structure plotting programs MAXIMAGE ((C) M. Rould) and MOLSCRIPT (C) P. Kraulis) to draw electron-density maps. Thus, electron-density drawings can be combined with different renderings of molecular-structure models. The user specifies electron-density contouring, coordinate transformation and selection parameters. The program produces an input file for subsequent programs that contains plotting instructions and electron-density contouring information, and two files in the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank format, one containing selected atomic coordinates and the other containing electron-density vertices. MINIMAGE is designed to work on both VAX/VMS and Unix-based operation systems.