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How to use Cn3D

Category: BioinformaticsBiotechnologyGenetics & Molecular BiologyScience educationVideosmolecular structures
Posted on: March 19, 2008 5:37 PM, by Sandra Porter

Have you ever wondered how to view and annotate molecular structures? At least digital versions?

It's surprisingly easy and lots of fun.

Here's a movie I made that demonstrates how you can use Cn3D, a free structure-viewing program from the NCBI. Luckily, Cn3D behaves almost the same way on both Windows and Mac OS X.


Introduction to Cn3D from Sandra Porter on Vimeo.

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Thanks, it is very nice, I liked it!
Gordana

Posted by: Gordana | March 26, 2008 3:21 PM

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