Presenting your structures: the<i>CCP</i>4<i>mg</i>molecular-graphics software

TLDR

The paper describes the substantially enhanced version 2 of CCP4mg, featuring a new underlying GUI toolkit. CCP4mg is a molecular‑graphics program that enables rapid creation of static and dynamic macromolecular visualizations, supports mixed coordinate‑derived and abstract graphical objects, allows scene descriptions to be saved and transferred, and includes a built‑in rendering module for publication‑quality images. The update introduces a new interface with advanced atom‑selection options and a wizard that simplifies generating complex scenes.

Abstract

CCP4mg is a molecular-graphics program that is designed to give rapid access to both straightforward and complex static and dynamic representations of macromolecular structures. It has recently been updated with a new interface that provides more sophisticated atom-selection options and a wizard to facilitate the generation of complex scenes. These scenes may contain a mixture of coordinate-derived and abstract graphical objects, including text objects, arbitrary vectors, geometric objects and imported images, which can enhance a picture and eliminate the need for subsequent editing. Scene descriptions can be saved to file and transferred to other molecules. Here, the substantially enhanced version 2 of the program, with a new underlying GUI toolkit, is described. A built-in rendering module produces publication-quality images.