[Molecular-modelling] DNA 3D modeling and more: New release of the Graphite-LifeExplorer software

[Damien Larivière]

Dear All,

We inform you that anew release**of Graphite-LifeExplorer (formerly 
MicroMégas) is available at:**http://www.loria.fr/~shornus/FFG/gle.html 
<http://www.loria.fr/%7Eshornus/FFG/gle.html>

This free software (running on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX) 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.

This new release includes the main following improvements:

  * A command Write PDB has been added. This is useful for preserving
    the spatial relationships between proteins in the scene which can
    thus be completely exported in professional packages like Blender,
    Maya, C4D via ePMV, Molecular Maya or BioBlender.

  * Ambient occlusion rendering has been improved for the atomic DNA

  * The full change-list is at:
    http://www.loria.fr/~shornus/FFG/gle.html#news
    <http://www.loria.fr/%7Eshornus/FFG/gle.html#news>


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

Youtube videos: 
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graphite+lifeexplorer+dna 
<http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=graphite+lifeexplorer+dna&oq=graphite+lifeexplorer+dna&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_nf=1&gs_l=youtube.3...2875.3287.0.3590.4.4.0.0.0.0.66.255.4.4.0.>

You can take a tour of our gallery**(http://www.lifeexplorer.eu/gallery) 
and follow us on Twitter : http://twitter.com/#!/GraphiteLifeExp

You can also subscribe the mailing-list 
(http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/graphite-micromegas) 
for user help and announces.


Graphite-LifeExplorer 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/).

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 Graphite-LifeExplorer team