As an applet usage, a popup menu appears by clicking the right mouse button on the display screen, or clicking with a 'Command' button in case of Mac.īasic menu operations are following (see also jV wiki for details): The location of the menu is at the top of the application window in Windows and at the top of screen in Mac as the stand-alone application. Operations such as changing display models and colors and saving the image, can be executed with a menu. Shift + Command + drag (move horizontally) Major actions are described in the following table: You can execute basic operations such as rotation and translation with mouse action.

The graphics of jV is based on OpenGL (JOGL), thereby producing fairly beautiful pictures.

jV runs on the Java Runtime Environment ( JRE) so that it can work as a stand-alone application as well as an applet.

(Each frame of an animation is made of a single MODEL entity of the traditional PDB format file.)

Multiple polygons can be processed simultaneously, and be superimposed onto molecular images.

jV can display polygons specified by XML.

jV can process more than one molecules.

Of course, jV can read and display the traditional PDB format files, too.

jV can read and display PDBML files, the canonical XML format for the Protein Data Bank.

PDBjViewer (jV, for short) is a program to display molecular graphics of proteins and nucleic acids.

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