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GRAPHICS:

HyperChem uses a simple sketch-and-build method for building molecules on the screen and offers several means of creating and modifying stunning 3D molecular structures.

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Animations

You can save molecular dynamic simulations as .avi for playback in any media player.  View the following example by clicking the image:

Protein Secondary Structure Rendering
Secondary structure rendering now includes ribbon lines, narrow ribbon sheets, thick ribbon sheets, encompassing helical cylinders and a coil rendering. These new renderings can be selected for any secondary structure or part of a secondary structure. They can be colored globally or colored differently for specific residues.

Structure Input and Manipulation

Building molecules with HyperChem is simple: just choose an element from the periodic table, and click and drag with the mouse to sketch a structure. Mouse control of rotation around bonds, stereochemistry, and "rubber banding" of bonds makes changing structures easy. Extensive selection, highlighting, and display capabilities make it easy to focus on areas of interest in complex molecules.

• Select, rotate, translate, and resize structures with convenient mouse controlled tools. Modify settings to control operation of tools.

• Convert rough sketches into 3D structures with HyperChem's model builder.

• Apply builder constraints easily: specify bond lengths, bond angles, torsion angles, or the bonding geometry about a selected atom.

• Specify atom type, atom charge, formal charge and atomic mass.

• Build clusters and complex molecular assemblies; move individual atoms and molecules as easily as you move groups. 

• Build peptides and nucleic acids from amino acid and nucleotide residue libraries.

• Mutate residues and build large molecules incrementally (make changes at any point).

• Add a periodic box of pre-equilibrated water molecules for aqueous solvation studies. Periodic boundary conditions can be used with other solvent systems, or without solvents.

• Import structures from standard file formats: Brookhaven PDB, ChemDraw CHM, MOPAC Z-matrix, MDL MOL and ISIS Sketch, and Tripos MOL2 files.
  

Raytrace

The Raytrace module enables you to create stunning raytraced images of molecules in the workspace by bridging with the very high-level graphics visualization application known as Persistence of Vision (POV) Ray for Windows.

• Automatically generate POV-Ray input files describing the molecule.

• Run POV-Ray to generate high quality images in any of several graphic file formats supported by POV-Ray.
  

Read an Overview of HyperChem's features.
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