BALLView(1)

✨ BALLView(1) ✨

Okay so this is the BALLView(1) page from the General Commands Manual 🎀 Let's get into it, bestie 💅

✨ NAME ✨

BALLView is a free molecular modeling and molecular graphics tool 🦋 It's giving science AND it's giving pretty.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

BALLView [Molecular-file]

The file goes in square brackets, so it's optional 💜

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay bestie, BALLView is literally the main character 👑 It gives you fast OpenGL-based visualization of molecular structures, plus molecular mechanics stuff like minimization and MD simulation using the AMBER and CHARMM force fields. It can also calculate and visualize electrostatic properties (FDPB) ✨

BALLView is based on BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) 🧚 BALL is 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). The cool part is that BALL is an application framework in C++ made for rapid software development in Molecular Modeling and Computational Molecular Biology 🔥 It has an extensive set of data structures, plus classes for Molecular Mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization. Iconic behavior, honestly 😭

BALLView is available under the LGPL licence 🌈

Homepage: www.BALLView.org

✨ USAGE ✨

To run BALLView, just type:

BALLView

or

BALLView file.pdp

Quick typo alert 👀 The original page says file.pdp, but the very next sentence calls it file.pdb. The sentence is clearly talking about a PDB file, so the typo is in the source, not in you 🫶

BALLView also supports HIN, MOL, MOL2 and SD files 💅

BALLView has HTML documentation built right into the app, so check the Help menu if you get stuck 📚

This package also includes Python example scripts that you can run inside BALLView 🐍 They live under /usr/share/BALL/PYTHON.

✨ AUTHOR ✨

BALLView is copyright 1998-2009 by the BALL project group 💖

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

http://www.ballview.org

And that's the whole tea, bestie 🌸 This page was last updated on 24 January 2009 for BALLView(1) 🦋 Stay iconic and keep those molecules glowing ✨💜