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A Quick Guide to B&S 3.5
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Quick Guide to
Ball & Stick 3.5 Demo
System Requirements
Ball & Stick will run on Macintosh Plus and later models. All features
are fully functional in the demo version with the following limitations:
40 atoms per file and printed pages are superimposed with a banner.
Ball & Stick requires system 6.0.7 or later. To view the demo movies
which come on separate disks QuickTime™ version 1.5 or later and
MoviePlayer 1.1 or later are required.
Ball & Stick 3.5 is System 7 friendly.
Installation Procedure
Ball & Stick is easy to install:
1. Lock the original disk (if it is not locked already).
2. Copy all of the files to a folder on your hard disk.
3. Move the files B&S.settings and B&S.lib into the Preferences folder
(System 7) or system folder (System 6). The settings file is used to
load the default program settings and atom definitions at startup time.
Startup
Double-click on the Ball & Stick application icon. You will be prompted to open
a coordinate file. Choose one of the files from the data examples folder. After
you have started the application, you may open files from the file menu. You
may have two files open at one time.
To introduce you to Ball & Stick here are a few operations for you to try.
Rotating the molecule
Select the Transform menu and Rotate(mouse).
Hold down the mouse inside the circle and drag to rotate.
Select Rotate around axis and choose an axis. This rotation may be repeated by
pressing the <enter> key.
Selecting atoms
You may highlight an individual atom by clicking on it with the mouse. To
select more than one, hold down <shift> key while clicking on the atom.
Double-click on a selected atom to display the control window.
This gives quick access to the following commands:
rotation
xy-translation
xz-translation
distance change (2 or more atoms selected)
angle change(3 or more atoms selected)
torsion change (4 or more atoms selected)
+ zoom-in
- zoom-out
Display Model
Change the type of display to whatever you prefer from the Model menu. The
overlay skeleton, labelling and depth-shading may be toggled on and off.
Customizing
Use View menu to customize the background in Change Background. Change to black
by dragging the cursor down the vertical bar. Obtain a full-screen image with
Full Screen option.
The menu bar appears when you click the mouse in the menu region.
Try customizing the size, color and depth of shading of each of your atoms from
the View menu.
Real-time operations
Obtain a stereo image with the Stereo View option. Set up a series of rotations
with the File menu Rotation Animation option. Select the number of rotations
required and set to Screen Only. Select degree of rotation and watch you stereo
image rotate.
Clipping
Return to a single image (by selecting Stereo View again) and rotate the
molecule with the mouse (Transform menu) until it appears end on (looking into
the screen). Select View menu Front & Back Clipping to obtain a set of images
from three angles. Drag the grey areas until you have isolated a small section
of the molecule and select. You will now have a clipped region which you can
easily manipulate. This is useful for dealing with large molecules. To perform
several manipulations without updating the image each time you can first select
Freeze Display.
Automatic Format Recognition
Ball & Stick is able to analyze data files and extract the catesian, internal or
unit cell coordinates from many popular formats. Only if automatic recognition
fails, which may be due to a confusing title line in some formats you can use the
Import command described below.
Import files
To see what types of file format you can import go to File, Import and view the
options. Among these you will find the Cambridge Structural Database and
Protein Structure Databank (Brookhaven) formats.
Export files
To see what types of file format you can export go to File, Export and view the
formats supported.
Building of new structures
Select File, New. If you have correctly installed the example B&S.lib file provided
the item Load Fragment in the Build menu is active now. Select Build, Load Fragment,
ethyl- and an ethyl fragment will be loaded. Now choose Build, Merge Fragment, phenyl-.
Click Ok in the next dialog and ethylbenzene will appear on your screen.
You can center it on the screen by selecting Transform, Center.
The full version of Ball & Stick includes a library of basic organic fragments,
a library of amino acids and a structure collection of 200+ important organic
and pharmaceutical chemicals.
If you want to know more about Ball & Stick please contact:
Cherwell Scientific Publishing
15 Auburn Place
Brookline MA 02146
USA
Tel: (617) 277 4200
Fax: (617) 739 4836
or
Cherwell Scientific Publishing
The Magdalen Centre
Oxford Science Park
Oxford OX4 4GA
UK
Phone +44 (865) 784 800
Fax +44 (865) 784 801
or
Cherwell Scientific Publishing
c/o CHEM Research GmbH
Beethovenstraße 7b
D-60325 Frankfurt 1
Germany
Tel: +49 (069) 4711114
Fax: +49 (069) 740496
The package includes an fpu savvy version and a slower universal Mac
(MacPlus and newer) version. The license is given for use on a single
computer at a time.
Pricing (US$ approximate, as of June 1993):
US$ 299.-
15 % academic/educational discount
5 Pack: US$ 750.-
10 Pack: US$1150.-
Upgrades: US$ 75.-