• Click here to download Chime (http://www.symyx.com/downloads/downloadable/index.jsp)
  
  
  1. Select MDL® Chime from the Dropdown menu
  2. Select an MDL® Chime Version compatible with your operating system
  3. Close all applications and follow the MDL Chime Download Instructions by selecting the START DOWNLOAD button

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• Click here to download Rasmol
  
  
• UNIX, Linux, and IRIX users
  Installation instructions
  
  
• WIN 95/NT, WIN 3.1 and MacOS users
  Instructions for the download and installation
1. Download the version of RasMol which is compatible with your operating system (RasWin.exe for Windows, RasMac for Macintosh). You can also download the corresponding help file. Save in your Applications folder.
2. Locate the RasMol set up icon in that folder, and click on it.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to install.
4. Once installed, make sure your Web browser is configured to open RasMol at the appropriate times (that is, set up your browser to recognize that certain file types with certain file extensions, also known as a MIME type, should be loaded into RasMol and displayed.). To configure RasMol 2.7.2.1 in Netscape:
   • Go into Preferences under Edit, then Applications under Navigator.
   • Remove all existing RasMol/Raswin MIME types.
   • Click on a 'pdb format' link on any NDB Web page, such as the Coordinate Data files at the bottom of any ATLAS page.
   • Netscape should pop up the "Unknown File Type" window.
   • Click on the "Pick App..." button.
   • Browse to select raswin.exe from RasMol 2.7.2.1.
   • Close Netscape and open it again.
   • Choose "Edit >> Preferences >> Applications."
   • Edit the "Raswin File" entry to add "-script" to the "Application" entry.
   • Close and restart Netscape.


• WIN2K users, it is recommended to use RasTop 2.0 with Internet Explorer version 6.0+ or Netscape 4.7+, the latter requiring configuration of the MIME types:
  1. Go into Preferences under Edit, then Applications under Navigator.
  2. From the list of MIME types, select the entry for RSM scripts that corresponds to the "rsm" file extension.
  3. Click on Edit, and enter "application/x-rasmol" in the MIME type box, then click OK.
  4. Close and restart Netscape.


• Details on configuring RasMol for older versions of Netscape (2.0, 3.0) can be found here. Below are the commands to add the MIME type. Please refer to the documentation associated with your specific browser to understand how to add these commands.


• 1. Configuring RasMol for simple display of a plain PDB file
     All platforms:
     
     MIME Type: chemical/x-pdb
     File extension: pdb, ras, ent
     
     
     Additional configurations by platform:
     
     PC - Command: Raswin.exe %1 Example: C:\bin\Raswin.exe %1
     MAC - select Application under "Handled by", click on the "Choose..." button and direct your browser to RasMac and click "Open".
     UNIX - Command: xterm -e rasmol %s (This command assumes that both xterm and RasMol are in your path already. The command opens a new xterm window to manage the command line interface to RasMol and also reads the RasMol script.
  
  
  2. Configuring RasMol for display of a PDB file and execution of a short script: This command not only starts RasMol, but also instructs RasMol to read a file of commands which effect how the display looks.
     
     All platforms:
     MIME Type: chemical/x-ras
     File extension: pdb, ras, ent
     
     Additional configurations by platform:
     
     PC - Command: Raswin.exe -script %1 Example: C:\bin\Raswin.exe -script %1
     MAC - select Application under "Handled by", click on the "Choose..." button and direct your browser to RasMac and click "Open". Set the File type to "RSML".
     UNIX - Command: xterm -e rasmol.exe -script %s (This command assumes that both xterm and RasMol are in your path already. The command opens a new xterm window to manage the command line interface to RasMol and also reads the RasMol script.

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