The data visualization program, ribbons, has been installed on the FBSC Silicon Graphics workstations.
Ribbons is designed to display molecular models as rendered images.
The necessary data consists of atomic coordinates in PDB format and colorQcoding information files. The program is specific for the SGIUs because it uses the graphics library specific for these devices, but there are plans to create a PEX version. Getting Started The best method for getting started with ribbons is to work through a demo session with the manual at hand. There are two methods for accessing the ribbons demo. The first is to open the BSC module and use the pull down menu under the ribbons entry.