This tutorial will give a
brief introduction on the power of the RasMol program. Though the tutorial itself contains
instructions to proceed in a step by step method, the following suggestions
will help if you run into trouble.
1. At this point the RasMol program should already be on
your computer. Therefore the first two steps concerning whether RasMol is the
right program for you and how to download the program are not necessary. Please
keep in mind that RasMol is the overall name of the program, but that RasWin
and RasMac are the Windows and Macintosh versions respectively. This
distinction is not important, however, do not let the names confuse you.
2. The most important part of this tutorial is working with
the molecules. You will want to save
the program “fourmols.exe” so that you have molecules to work with. You will need to first save this program to
a file on your computer. Next you
have to mouse click on the program once it is saved on your computer so that
the executable is run. You will now
have four molecules that are saved on your computer.
3. To open one of the newly saved molecules, open RasMol,
from your hardrive (it will be under the folder that you saved it in
previously). Select “file” => “open”.
Files that can be used by the RasMol program end in “.pdb”