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All macromolecular structures (proteins, DNA, and RNA) are deposited at the Protein Structure Database. Using simple or fancy search engines, one can search for your structure of interest. Entries are added daily, so check often.

To view the structures, you can use a variety of free software. Rasmol is one of the older and still widely used programs, and is available on Mac, PC, and Unix versions. A spin-off of Rasmol, CHIME runs within WEB browsers (best to stick with Netscape). Those programs will let you rotate, color, and zoom on existing protein structures. You can also save images and save scripts which will get you to specific orientations, etc.

A newer program, SwissPDB Viewer, similarly allows viewing structures and has a fancier interface. It allows for some fancier outputs (e.g., special 3D renderings). It also allows some simple homology modeling and allows you to rotate side chains, etc (note that as soon as you do these things, you have left the world of experiment and have entered a potential fantasy land). With homology modeling, you can take a sequence that is related to a protein of known structure and try to predict its structure by aligning the sequences onto the structure.


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