DRAWNA: a program for drawing schematic views of nucleic acids.

A program for drawing automatically exact and schematic views of nucleic acids is described. The program is written in C ANSI and uses the Silicon Graphics GL and Xirisw libraries within the X11/Motif environment. Through menus, the user can choose, specify, and manipulate in real time the three-dimensional views to be displayed. Drawing options include partitioning of structures into differently colored or shaped fragments, representation of backbones as flat or with conic-section ribbons, display of paired or free bases as rods, and display of surfaces as filled or outlined and stereo or depth-cued views.