NAME

       BALLView - A free molecular modeling and molecular graphics tool

SYNOPSIS

       BALLView [Molecular-file]

DESCRIPTION

       BALLView  BALLView  provides fast OpenGL-based visualization of molecular structures, molecular mechanics
       methods (minimization,  MD  simulation  using  the  AMBER  and  CHARMM  force  fields),  calculation  and
       visualization of electrostatic properties (FDPB).

       BALLView  is  based  on BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) , which is currently being developed in the
       groups of Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tuebingen, Germany), Andreas Hildebrandt (Saarland University,
       Saarbruecken,  Germany),  and  Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany). BALL is an
       application framework in C++ that has been  specifically  designed  for  rapid  software  development  in
       Molecular  Modeling and Computational Molecular Biology.  It provides an extensive set of data structures
       as well as classes for Molecular Mechanics,  advanced  solvation  methods,  comparison  and  analysis  of
       protein structures, file import/export, and visualization.

       BALLView is available under the LGPL licence.

       Homepage: www.BALLView.org

USAGE

       To run BALLView, simply type:

              BALLView

              or

              BALLView file.pdp

       where file.pdb is your PDB file. BALLView also supports HIN, MOL, MOL2 and SD files.

       BALLView provides HTML documentation, that is available in the application itself (see Help menu).

       This  package also includes Python example scripts, that can be run in BALLView.  They can be found under
       /usr/share/BALL/PYTHON.

AUTHOR

       BALLView is copyright 1998-2009 by the BALL project group

SEE ALSO

       http://www.ballview.org

                                                 24 January 2009                                     BALLView(1)