ICM-Browser

ICM-Browser provides a biologist or a chemist with direct access to the treasures of structural biology and protein families. It reads PDB files or alignment files directly from the database web-sites and provides rich professional molecular graphics environment with powerful representations of proteins, DNA and RNA, and multiple sequence alignments.

Who should use the ICM-Browser?

• A biology student or researcher to look at biological structures from PDB, sequences and alignments
• A chemist who wants to view chemical structures and ligand-receptor interactions
• A researcher who wants to look at annotated models or alignments built by a modeler colleague who used ICM tools

Platforms Available : Windows Vista/XP/NT/2000, Linux/i386/AMD64, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X

File formats ICM-Browser understands

• PDB structure files
• MDL mol format
• Tripos mol2 format
• Tables/spreadsheets in portable *.csv or icm format
• Sequence formats ( fasta, swissprot and other format )
• Wavefront 3D objects
• ICM binary archives with multiple objects
• ICM objects
• Alignments in fasta and other formats
• Molecular movies in ICM format
• Conformational stack
• Energy and electron density maps
• Amino acid comparison matrices
• The objects read by the browser can then be displayed with the ICM molecular graphics module, alignment display window, or table/plotting window.

Features of the ICM-Browser

• powerful PDB search engine giving direct local access to all PDB files without downloading the database
• rich and fast molecular graphics tool box including multiple high quality representations, FOG-effect, side-by-side stereo, full-screen mode, adjustable perspective, multilevel selection
• an unlimited number of pdb files (until total computer memory is exhausted), sequences and alignments can be loaded simultaneously
• colored alignments of publication quality, consensus coloring
• high resolution molecular images
• selection sensitive display dialog
• control over representation quality for fast speed; easy rotation mode
• instant cross-selection between 3D objects, sequences and alignments
• selections at multiple levels in workspace, sequence view, alignment view and graphics view
• selections at the secondary structure level
• dynamic pop-up menus for molecules, residues, 3D meshes, sequences, alignments, maps, and selections
• drag-and-drop: drop a molecule from the workspace to the graphics screen and it will be displayed
• interactive result - table browser and interactive plots

Extending the ICM Browser environment

The next step up from ICM-Browser is the low cost ICM-Browser-Pro.

Creating your own annotated structure files with the ICM-Browser upgrade called ICM-Browser-Pro

Note: If the ICM Browser Software is licensed to you free of charge, it does not include technical support.Bug reports and reports of errors or other problems are appreciated and should be sent to support@molsoft.com.