Download Swiss PDB Viewer 4.04 from our software library for free. Our built-in antivirus checked this download and rated it as 100% safe. The actual developer of the free program is Deepview. The size of the latest downloadable installation package is 11.2 MB. Download Swiss-PdbViewer - A simple and user-friendly application designed for biochemistry students and teachers a like, to offer them the means to analyze proteins at home.
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by N.Guex & T.Schwede
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Requested hardware and OS:
Pentium or higher
Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/ME
OpenGL (Is included in all current Windows versions. In case of problems, please consult your graphics card installation manual.)
Installation Procedure
NEW: Service Pack 4 of Swiss-Pdb Viewer (v3.7 SP4) is now available (Release Notes):
Previous versions of DeepView (Swiss-Pdb Viewer): - DeepView 3.7 as zip-file or self extracting archive - DeepView 3.7b2 as zip-file or self extracting archive - DeepView 3.51 as zip-file or self extracting archive - DeepView 3.56b3 as zip-file or self extracting archive If you have problems installing spdbv, see 'FAQ: Installing Swiss Pdb Viewer for PC' for technical details. The following steps 2-6 are optional:
Download Swiss-PdbViewer Loop Database(2.45Mb). This step is only useful if you intend to do standalone modeling, or for teaching purposes. To be able to use the loop database, put it into the Swiss-PdbViewer '_stuff_' directory.
Download pdf User Guide(for v.3.7) (2Mb).
Download html User Guide(for v.3.01) (740Kb). This step is useful if you want to consult this web user-guide from a computer not connected to the network. (The current version of this user guide is not up-to-date and does not cover all new features added between version 3.0 and 3.6. Please check this page from time to time for updates.) To be able to consult the help directly from within Swiss-PdbViewer, place the content of this zip-file (2 folders) into the Swiss-PdbViewer '_stuff_' directory.
Download tutorial Material (325Kb). This step is useful to learn how to use spdbv by looking at real examples. (If you wish to learn the basic manipulation of Swiss-PdbViewer, I recommend that you have a look at the tutorial prepared by Prof. Gale Rhodes from the University of Southern Maine Portland.)
Download PROSITE pattern file (2.9 Mb) SPDBV (v3.6) can search a sequence for Prosite pattern, if you download the pattern file 'prosite.dat' into the 'usrstuff' directory.
Download & install Pov-Ray This step is useful only if you intend to make ray-traced images from your molecules.
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The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics presents:
v4.1
by Nicolas Guex , Alexandre Diemand , Manuel C. Peitsch , & Torsten Schwede
Please note that Swiss-PdbViewer is a 32 bits application and will * NOT * run on OSX Catalina If you absolutely need it, refrain from updating, boot from an older OSX version, or use the PC version within a virutal machine.I currently have no plan to update it to run on OSX 10.15
For information, v4.1.1 works up to OSX Mojave (10.14).
Swiss-PdbViewer (aka DeepView) is an application that provides a user friendly interface allowing to analyze several proteins at the same time. The proteins can be superimposed in order to deduce structural alignments and compare their active sites or any other relevant parts. Amino acid mutations, H-bonds, angles and distances between atoms are easy to obtain thanks to the intuitive graphic and menu interface.
Swiss-PdbViewer (aka DeepView) has been developped since 1994 by Nicolas Guex. Swiss-PdbViewer is tightly linked to SWISS-MODEL, an automated homology modeling server developed within the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) at the Structural Bioinformatics Group at the Biozentrum in Basel.
Working with these two programs greatly reduces the amount of work necessary to generate models, as it is possible to thread a protein primary sequence onto a 3D template and get an immediate feedback of how well the threaded protein will be accepted by the reference structure before submitting a request to build missing loops and refine sidechain packing.
Swiss-PdbViewer can also read electron density maps, and provides various tools to build into the density. In addition, various modeling tools are integrated and residues can be mutated.
Finally, as a special bonus, POV-Ray scenes can be generated from the current view in order to make stunning ray-traced quality images. An example can be found here.
The major change compared to 4.04 is the abandon of the default non openGL rendering mode which was causing various color issues on recent Apple hardware.
New tool: Possibility to detect hydrophobic patches, see tutorial
New tool: Detection of grooves (open cavities)
New tool: Detection of contact surfaces, see tutorial
Added an atom radius table in the usrstuff directory. This can be modified to override the default size of the spheres drawn on screen for a given atom type.
The blast against Uniprot feature has been fixed
Improved the readibility of the Motif search feature.
Thank you to all users who reported those bugs!
The URLs to import uniprot entries have been updated
Fixed the Select AAkind submenu issues on the PC version
Thank you to all users who reported those bugs!
The Thymine C6 atom is now correctly loaded
Fixed the POV-Ray output endless loop on the PC version
The occasional crash while saving PDB files (such as 2i37) on the PC has been fixed
Updated the address of the Uppsala Electron Density Map Server
Thank you to all users who reported those bugs!
First of all, and most importantly, PC and Mac versions have been resynchronized.
Support for direct login modelling submissions and result retrieval to/from the SwissModel Workspace
Enhanced Import Menu
Enhanced user interface with taxonomy support, and new sequence alignment features.
Beta version of 3D Motif Searching feature
Easy access to external user defined scripts directly from the interface