The Effort

Leif Laaksonen

Center for Scientific Computing, Espoo, FINLAND

Version 3.0 (23.09. 2004)


URL: http://www.csc.fi/gopenmol/

This is the HTML based help system for the gOpenMol development effort in Espoo, Finland. This help system is under constant development so please check the gOpenMol HTML based help files regularly at:

URL: http://www.csc.fi/gopenmol/

I will try to maintain a page with updated information about the program itself and the graphical user interface (GUI). You can also read about bug fixes, updates and new versions.

The gOpenMol set of programs is the graphical interface into a variety of computational chemistry programs.


   Motto:

   One of these days
   I'm going to sit down and write a long letter
   To all the good friends
   I've known
   And I'm going to try
   To thank them all for the good times together
   Though so apart
   We've grown

      Neil Young, One of these days


Requirements:

Currently the main target platforms are Linux and Windows. However, you can get gOpenMol running on Unix machines with a small effort. gOpenMol is implemented with dynamic memory allocation so depending on the features gOpenMol can need a lot of memory. I strongly recommend at least 512 Mb of memory. The disk space needed is about 30 - 40 Mb.

Information available:


Introduction to gOpenMol
Starting your gOpenMol session
Commands and menu system
Tcl line command interface to gOpenMol
Utility tools
File formats
Appendix

Best way to learn more about gOpenMol is to open the web pages at http://www.csc.fi/gopenmol/.

gOpenMol as a helper application for your Web browser

It is possible to use gOpenMol as a helper application to your favourite Unix/Linux/Windows NT/95 Web browser. Please look into your favourite Web browser setup on how to start the rungOpenMol.bat file in the bin/ directory.

Using gOpenMol you can transport complete 3D molecular models including solid/transparent surfaces and CPK, licorice representations of your molecular models over the network. If you use gOpenMol as a helper application you can put up gOpenMol (.gom) files on your Web server to distribute graphics. I will make an effort to make new network features into gOpenMol in the future. This interface will be based on Tcl/Tk.


Maintained by Leif Laaksonen (Leif.Laaksonen (at) csc.fi)

Center for Scientific Computing
P.O. Box 405
FIN-02101 Espoo FINLAND
Phone: +358 9 4572378
Fax: +358 9 4572302