title: DRAWNA: a program for drawing schematic views of nucleic acids.
abstract: A program for drawing automatically exact and schematic views of nucleic acids is described. The program is written in C ANSI and uses the Silicon Graphics GL and Xirisw libraries within the X11/Motif environment. Through menus, the user can choose, specify, and manipulate in real time the three-dimensional views to be displayed. Drawing options include partitioning of structures into differently colored or shaped fragments, representation of backbones as flat or with conic-section ribbons, display of paired or free bases as rods, and display of surfaces as filled or outlined and stereo or depth-cued views.
authors.affiliation: Equipe de Modélisation et de Simulation des Acides Nucléiques, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Massire
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gaspin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Westhof
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA