If We Let Commoners Do This, We'd Be Unemployed
EDIT: I am dumb. See the panel in the lower-right corner?
You click it, and the mode changes. Obviously intuitive, as are the command descriptions. (TorF? PkAt? MvSZ? Yeah, I know those.) And, as you can tell, I’ve found a model of cholesterol, so I think we’re good to go. Reset of post left for historical purposes.
Is 3D molecular modelling a really complex domain or something?
I think I have a fairly good grasp of the basics of chemistry, but I’m having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to do simple stuff like adding atoms and bonds in PyMOL. Supposedly, there’s a better modelling program out there called “O”, but good luck searching for that. (And it’s probably high-priced proprietary software anyway, which means I wouldn’t be able to use it even if I found it.)
Anyone have any suggestions for molecular modeling software? I need it to build 3D structures of organic molecules having roughly the same complexity of cholesterol. It should be free/open-source software.
Links to friendly PDB databases would be helpful, too; I do have tools to convert PDBs to my required formats. I’m aware of services like RCSB’s data bank, but there’s a bit too much data for me to sort through there, and my knowledge base of organic chemistry isn’t rich enough to do pattern-matching on the models they do have. (Do a search on “cholesterol” there and you’ll see what I mean.)