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BALLView(1)						      General Commands Manual						       BALLView(1)

NAME
       BALLView - A free molecular modeling and molecular graphics tool

SYNOPSIS
       BALLView [Molecular-file]

DESCRIPTION
       BALLView  BALLView  provides fast OpenGL-based visualization of molecular structures, molecular mechanics methods (minimization, MD simula-
       tion using the AMBER and CHARMM force fields), calculation and visualization of electrostatic properties (FDPB).

       BALLView is based on BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) , which is currently being developed in the groups of Oliver Kohlbacher (Univer-
       sity  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 has been specifically  designed  for  rapid  software  development	in
       Molecular  Modeling  and Computational Molecular Biology.  It provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for Molecular
       Mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization.

       BALLView is available under the LGPL licence.

       Homepage: www.BALLView.org

USAGE
       To run BALLView, simply type:

	      BALLView

	      or

	      BALLView file.pdp

       where file.pdb is your PDB file. BALLView also supports HIN, MOL, MOL2 and SD files.

       BALLView provides HTML documentation, that is available in the application itself (see Help menu).

       This package also includes Python example scripts, that can be run in BALLView.	They can be found under /usr/share/BALL/PYTHON.

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

SEE ALSO
       http://www.ballview.org

								  24 January 2009						       BALLView(1)