MViewer: Visualization of Protein Molecular Structures Stored in the PDB, mmCIF and PDBML Data Formats

Molecular viewers allow visualization of spatial structures of proteins and other biological molecules. However, most of them are not able to read molecular structures stored in the PDBML format provided by the world-wide Protein Data Bank (PDB). In the paper, we present main features of the MViewer that we have designed and developed in order to support a man-protein structure interaction. The unique feature of the MViewer is the ability to open, read and visualize structures stored in all three formats (i.e. PDB, mmCIF, and PDBML) available from the PDB repository.

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