
             DeepView / Swiss-PdbViewer
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                   Version 3.7

            http://www.expasy.org/spdbv/

           Nicolas Guex, Alexander Diemand 
          Torsten Schwede & Manuel C. Peitsch
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DESCRIPTION
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Swiss-PdbViewer is an application that provides a user friendly
interface allowing to analyse several proteins at the same time.
The proteins can be superimposed in order to deduce structural 
alignments and compare their active sites or any other relevant 
parts. Amino acid mutations, H-bonds, angles and distances between
atoms are easy to obtain thanks to the intuitive graphic and menu
interface. 

Moreover, Swiss-PdbViewer is tightly linked to Swiss-Model, an 
automated homology modelling server accessible from ExPASy

Working with these two programs greatly reduces the amount of 
work necessary to generate models, as it is possible to thread
a protein primary sequence onto a 3D template and get an immediate
feedback of how well the threaded protein will be accepted by the
reference structure before submitting a request to build missing 
loops and refine sidechain packing.

NOTE for SGI/IRIX:
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Recent patches for IRIX 6.5 made SPDBV write white on white coloured 
characters in dialogs, which is hard to read. 
There is a possibility to set the environment variable SPDBV_FORCE_CMAP 
before starting spdbv to force it to use predefined values for black and 
white colors. This seams to be necessary for elder IRIX installations. 
Newly patched IRIX 6.5 installations should not set the variable as the 
new default is to dynamically get the black and white colours from the 
X-Server.
old IRIX 6.5 or below:
setenv SPDBV_FORCE_CMAP ([t]csh) or export SPDBV_FORCE_CMAP='' ([ba]sh)
newly patched IRIX 6.5:
don't need to change anything
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