This page provides local copies of the RasMol program. The original source of RasMol is via ftp from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Download the RasMol 2.6 Beta-2a Program
for
which
extensive documentation is available here.
In case you have problems downloading files with your web browser,
all files on our web site in microbio/rasmol/distrib are also
available by anonymous ftp from marlin.bio.umass.edu
in
/pub/shareware/rasmol/distrib.
Download the RasMol 2.7 Program
RasMol 2.7, spearheaded by Herbert Bernstein, was released in 1999.
Bernstein's site contains
The present site maintained by yours truly, Eric Martz, at the University of Massachusetts does not document the changes in RasMol 2.7. For two and a half years (November 1995 through April 1998) I actively developed the RasMol branch of my website. However, the documentation at my site will remain largely frozen at RasMol 2.6-beta-2a. This is because my efforts are now focused largely on Chime, notably the Protein Explorer, an alternative to RasMol which is easier to use and more powerful (though, unlike RasMol, limited to Windows and Macintosh PPC users since Chime is not supported on unix/linux).
To the best of our knowledge, the only version of Roger Sayle's original RasMol Reference Manual which is reasonably up to date with RasMol version 2.6 beta 2 is the available from our site. It has the large advantage that you can search it with the Find capability of your web browser, because it is all in one file. The disadvantage is that the file is somewhat large and slow to load. |
Another advantage of the all-in-one-file version linked above is that it can be printed with your web browser, should you wish a paper copy.
If you prefer the faster loading of smaller files, section by section, (thereby sacrificing the web-browser find capability for the entire document, and the ability to print the entire document), see the frames version of the 2.6 beta 2 reference manual provided by Will McClure, Carnegie-Mellon U. This is also available without frames.
Here is an enhanced version of the RasMol Quick Reference Card (originally by Roger Sayle, enhanced by Duane Sears, UCSB). This card is also available in Adobe Acrobat format from Will McClure.
The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) provides supplemental information. If you have specific questions be sure to check RasMol's built-in help, both from the Help menu, and from the command-line (help command in the command-line window). (Note that RasMol's built-in help is up to date only with version 2.5.) If your questions remain unanswered, search past messages on the history of the RasMol email discussion, and if you still can't find the answer, subscribe to the email discussion and ask by email. Tutorials on how to use RasMol and guides to creating "movie" scripts for RasMol and Chime are also available.
In 2.6-beta-2a, the the implementation of stereo is a
partial one. When stereo is turned on, the image is not properly
recentered. (This can be done with a translate x -
Version chronology of RasMol since November 1994:
Installation in Windows 95. Right-click on Start and select
Open. From the Start Menu window, double click to open the Programs
window (or wherever you want RasMol to be). Now, use Windows
Explorer to find the RasWin program file you downloaded
(RW32B2A.EXE). Click the right mouse button on the RasWin program file, and
select Create Shortcut. A new file will appear. Drag it into
the Programs window (or wherever you want it). Close all windows.
Now, the Start, Programs menu will have RasWin on its list.
There are three versions of RasWin for Windows 3.1x.
(If for any reason you want them, the following obsolete versions are
still here:
32-bit RasWin 2.6-beta-2,
32-bit RasWin 2.6-beta-1,
16-bit RasWin 2.6-beta-2,
16-bit RasWin 2.6-beta-1.)
Installation. RasWin (either 16- or 32-bit) is installed as
follows under Windows 3.1x. Create a new directory (for example,
C:\RASWIN) and put the file you downloaded (RASWINSX.EXE, RW16B2A.EXE,
or RW32B2A.EXE) there along with the two essential help files
rasmol.hlp and raswin.hlp. (Get
rashelp.exe, run it under DOS
in your raswin
directory, and it will self-unpack into these two files. These on-line
help files are only up to date with version 2.5.)
Now, in Windows, select File, New (Program Item), Browse, and select
C:\RASWIN\RASWIN.EXE (or RASWIN32.EXE), OK. In the
Description field, put RasWin followed by the
version you are installing (for example RasWin32 2.6 Beta2).
In the Working Directory field, put C:\RASWIN
or wherever you plan to keep your scripts and PDB (atomic coordinate)
data files.
Back to contents of this document.
Get rmc26b2a.sit.hqx, which
had some Mac-specific bugs fixed on September
25, 1996. The fixed version was first made available from here (RasMol
Classic Main Page) on October 10, 1996. (RasMac 2.6 beta 2 was released June 6,
1996; stereo works).
To unpack the file rasmac.sit.hqx, start up the application "StuffIt
Expander" and select the option "Expand" from the "File" menu. This
should create the folder "RasMol2". You can then delete the files
"rasmac.sit.hqx" and "rasmac.sit" by dragging their file icon and
dropping them on the "trash".
Should anyone still want it,
RasMac 2.6 beta 1 is still available.
Back to contents of this document.
Back to contents of this document.
Sources are:
Back to contents of this document.
RasMol26.tar.gz (beta-1) is also still available.
Back to contents of this document.
Back to contents of this document.
See the Reference Manual for details of changes in each
version.
Download RasWin 2.6 beta-2a for PC/Windows
Windows 95, Windows NT
Get 32-bit RasWin (some bugs were
fixed November 20, 1996) for Windows 95 or Windows NT.
Windows 3.1
Download RasMac for Macintosh
Download RasMol for NextStep
RasMol.app 2.6 for NEXTSTEP computers is provided by
Andreas Windemuth at Columbia University, New York NY US.
The file
RasMol.NIHS.bs.tar.gz contains the programs (binaries) both for
16-bit graphics and for 2-bit graphics as well as the source code (in
which modifications were kept to a minimum).
Download RasMol for Acorn RISC OS
RasMol for Acorn 32-bit RISC OS computers is kindly
provided by
Martin Wuerthner
and
Stefan Wuerthner. It was updated to RasMol version 2.6-beta-2 on
August 28, 1996.
Download Compilable Source Code for RasMol for Unix
Obtain the file
RasMol26b2.tar.gz.
Installation instructions are included.
Download RasMol for VAX/VMS
Instructions are in the installation instruction file
INSTALL26
which accompanies RasMol. (Use your browser's FIND to search
for the VMS part of this document.) If you cannot unpack the
tar.gz
file, you can get the
unpacked source code files
by ftp.
This page is maintained by emartz@microbio.umass.edu