[Protein-crystallography] DNA 3D modeling software released - Graphite MicroMégas

[Damien Larivière]

Dear All,

We are excited to announce the release of Graphite-MicroMégas that lets 
you model in 3D *assemblies of proteins* and *DNA*. Its main feature is 
the capability to create *3D models of DNA in a highly intuitive manner*.

Download this *free *software here 
http://www.loria.fr/~shornus/FFG/micromegas.html 
<http://www.loria.fr/%7Eshornus/FFG/micromegas.html>

Tutorials are available at: http://www.lifeexplorer.eu/3d-models/tutorials

Youtube videos: 
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graphite+micromegas+dna

To date, the modeling and visualization tool enables to:
- import PDB files
- create isosurface of molecular object
- highlight residues of interest
- calculate distance between residues pairs
- import and export in 3D formats
- model DNA and export the result in PDB
- visualize a 3D scene with Level of Detail
- import a file with x,y,z coordinates and convert it into a DNA 
representation.

Graphite-MicroMégas is the result of a collaboration between the 
Fourmentin-Guilbert Scientific Foundation 
(http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org <http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/>) 
and INRIA (Samuel Hornus, Bruno Levy, http://alice.loria.fr/).

It runs on *Linux, Windows and Mac OSX*.

Do not hesitate to contact us at:

info [at] lifeexplorer.eu

samuel.hornus [at] inria.fr

We hope you will enjoy using the tool and find it useful for your 
research, illustrations and teaching. We welcome any feedback you may have.

The MicroMégas team