If you're serious about visualization and modelling and do not want to
lock yourself into a corner, then get a low-end SGI system.
There is plenty of freeware/shareware stuff for your kind of application
and you are on the main platform that the leading labs use.
$20000 gets you very far these days, even with SGI. Check out the new
Indy R5000 systems.
Cheers,
| Christoph Weber Sen. Research Associate
| Dept.of Molecular Biology, MB2 619-554-7283 or -8754 (phone)
| The Scripps Research Institute 619-554-3757 (FAX)
| La Jolla CA 92037 weber at scripps.edu|http://www.scripps.edu/~chazin/people/cw.html