NOCH
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NOCH - is a free and open source
molecular explorer for protein structure visualization. It allows for import of molecular structures described in the Protein Data Bank
file format
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Open source
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molecular explorer for protein structure visualization. It allows for import of molecular structures described in the Protein Data Bank
Protein Data Bank (file format)
The Protein Data Bank file format is a textual file format describing the three dimensional structures of molecules held in the Protein Data Bank. The pdb format accordingly provides for description and annotation of protein and nucleic acid structures including atomic coordinates, observed...
file format
File format
A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice-versa. There are different kinds of formats for...
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