Crystallography Basel

Software

Laboratory for Chemical Crystallography, University of Basel

Software

Available software downloads are listed here.

MacMoMo (Structure viewer for Mac OSX and Windows)
fdat-Converter (Conversion of FDAT files from CSD searches to MoMo format for Mac OS up to version 9)

We provide links for downloading other software products directly from the sites maintained by the authors of these programs as new releases follow too quickly to stay up to date with a useful effort. As network connections are so fast and reliable today a local mirror is not any more mandatory or desirable.

CRYSTALS (A refinement package with lots of interesting and useful features)
Sir97 (Structure solution program)
DirDif99 (Structure solution program with patterson search capability)
ORTEP 3 for Windows (Molecular graphics software based on the original ORTEP code)
Platon (Structure visualization and valifdation program)
RasMolMarching Cube ELD (Another structure visualization program)
Marching Cube ELD (A program to look at electron density maps)

MacMoMo

An easy to use program for the Macintosh to display crystal structures. The redistribution from our site has been authorized by the author, Prof. Dr. Max Dobler, ETH Zürich (Switzerland). The online help of the program covers all topics related to the efficent use of the program.

Please note that the program is provided "as is". As there is no further development there is also no more assistance by the author. Please refer to the website of the Biographics Laboratory for informations on the newest software development, with particular emphasis on the program MacBio (bottom of the page describing the software products).

FDAT-Converter

The fdat-Converter is a Mac droplet which extracts coordinates from a FDAT file and saves the coordinates in standard MacMomo format.

Please note: since the Cambridge Database now outputs different new formats this tool is only useful if you want to have a look at results of "old" database searches and do not have access to the database. In all other cases we recommend to redo the database search and to save the coordinates again in the format of your choice.
fdat-Converter for MacOS 9 and older, drag and drop utility (Binary, 290 KB)

Crystals

Please visit the website of David Watkin at the crystallography lab of the University of Oxford to get a recent version of this refinement software.

Sir97

On the website of Carmelo Giacovazzo you will find informations on the newest software software developments of this very active research group.

DirDif99

This is the page where you can download the last version of DirDif written by Paul Beurskens, a very interesting program that allows you to search for known structural fragments using patterson techniques.

Ortep3

On the website of Louis Farrugia (University of Glasgow) to find the newest version of this graphics package which is based on the original code of this program.

Platon

At this URL you can download the last version of Platon for Windows written by Ton Spek, a huge collection of tools to visualize and validate structures.

Marching Cube ELD

RasMol

Here you can get the last version of RasWin, the port of RasMol to Windows that had originally been written by Roger Sayle. You can look at your structures as long as you have coordinates in pdb-format.

Marching Cube ELD

With this software package you can visualize electron density maps calculated by refinement software like CRYSTALS, the most recent versions of this software written by Michal Husak is available here.

Last update 22-feb-2005

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