SPOCK

The SPOCK software package by Jon A. Christopher is designed to display molecular models as rendered images. It has many features similar to RIBBONS and GRASP plus added functionality. The GUI interface is very intuitive.

The SPOCK home page has additional information.

The User Manual is available locally.

Worked examples for Electron Density & Stick Bonds and Ribbons are locally available.

SPOCK is available on exxon, amoco, chevron, texaco and shell. It is also available on the Linux workstations.

To Get Started:

setup spock (or source /srv/local/setup/spock.set)
and
spock

Note: A Spock Session file saved on an SGI can not be opened on a Linux machine because it is a binary file.

Note: If you publish an image created with SPOCK please use one of the following citations depending on how you saved the image:

1)  "Save image"
    Figure created with spock (Christopher 1998).

2)  "Save molscript" 
    Figure created with spock (Christopher 1998) and rendered with Molscript
    (Kraulis 1991).

3)  "Save Raster3D"
    Figure created with spock (Christopher 1998) and rendered with Raster3D
    (Bacon & Anderson 1988, Merrit & Murphy 1994).

4)  "Save molscript (but rendered via Raster3D)"
    Figure created with spock (Christopher 1998) and rendered with Molscript
    (Kraulis 1991) and Raster3D (Bacon & Anderson 1988, Merrit & Murphy 1994). 

References: 

Bacon, David J. and Anderson, Wayne F. (1988).  Journal of
        Molecular Graphics 6, 219-220 (abstract of paper presented
        at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Molecular Graphics
        Society, San Francisco, 10-12 August 1988).  "A Fast
        Algorithm for Rendering Space-Filling Molecule Pictures."

Christopher, Jon A. (1998) SPOCK: The Structural Properties Observation and
        Calculation Kit (Program Manual), The Center for Macromolecular
        Design, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Kraulis, Per J., "MOLSCRIPT: a program to produce both detailed and schematic
        plots of protein structures", Journal of Applied Crystallography (1991)
        vol 24, pp 946-950.

Merritt, Ethan A. and Murphy, Michael E.P. (1994).
        "Raster3D Version 2.0, a Program for Photorealistic Molecular Graphics"
         Acta Cryst. D50, 869-873.