BALLView(1)

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💖 BALLView — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual page for BALLView, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section, so if you ever go looking for it, that's where it's chilling. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

BALLView — a free molecular modeling and molecular graphics tool. like, free free. no cap. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

BALLView [Molecular-file]

yep that's it. give it a molecular file if you want, or don't, she's flexible 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so BALLView gives you fast OpenGL-based visualization of molecular structures, plus molecular mechanics methods — think minimization, and MD simulation using the AMBER and CHARMM force fields. and it does calculation and visualization of electrostatic properties (FDPB). it's giving whole lab in one window honestly 🔥

BALLView is built on top of BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) 💖 and BALL is currently being developed in the groups of Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tuebingen, Germany), Andreas Hildebrandt (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany), and Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany). 🫶

BALL is an application framework in C++ that's been specifically designed for rapid software development in Molecular Modeling and Computational Molecular Biology. it provides an extensive set of data structures plus classes for:

  • Molecular Mechanics
  • advanced solvation methods
  • comparison and analysis of protein structures
  • file import/export
  • visualization

BALLView is available under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence, version 2.1 or later (LGPL-2.1+). 📜 slay, and also legally shareable, which is the best combo.

Homepage: www.BALLView.org 🌈

✨ USAGE ✨

to run BALLView, simply type:

BALLView

or

BALLView file.pdp

where file.pdb is your PDB file. (yes bestie, the manual really does say file.pdp up there and then file.pdb right after — i'm not gonna gaslight you, i'm just reporting the lore 🙈)

BALLView also supports HIN, MOL, MOL2 and SD files. so many file formats, she contains multitudes 💀✨

BALLView provides HTML documentation, and it's available in the application itself — just peek at the Help menu. 📖

this package also includes Python example scripts that can be run in BALLView 🐍🎀 and you can find them under /usr/share/BALL/PYTHON.

✨ AUTHOR ✨

BALLView is copyright 1998-2009 by the BALL project group. 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this page was stamped 24 January 2009 and belongs to the BALLView(1) page in the manual. go build something iconic with it 🧚💜✨

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