Graphite-LifeExplorer software

 The Graphite-LifeExplorer open source software is the result of a collaboration between the Fourmentin-Guilbert Scientific Foundation and INRIA. It is developed by Samuel Hornus as a plugin to the Graphite research platform developed by Bruno Levy and coworkers at the INRIA ALICE team. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and requires a recent graphic card.

The tool can be downloaded here.

If you have any questions, you can contact us at: info [at] lifeexplorer.eu or samuel.hornus [at] inria.fr

Graphite-LifeExplorer's main feature is the capability to create 3D models of DNA in a highly intuitive manner.

To date, the free modeling and visualization tool enables to:

- import PDB files
- create isosurface of molecular object
- highlight residues of interest
- calculate distance between residues pairs
- import and export in 3D formats
- model DNA and export the result in PDB
- visualize a 3D scene with Level of Detail
- explore a scene with real-time ambient occlusion
- import a file with x,y,z coordinates and convert it into a DNA representation
- rewrite the PDB file of a protein
- render a scene with numerous effects

We will soon provide video tutorials in the 3D modeling section.

Graphite-LifeExplorer is the result of a collaboration between the Fourmentin-Guilbert Scientific Foundation (http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org) and INRIA (Samuel Hornus, Bruno Levy; http://alice.loria.fr).

It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.

The tools is in beta stage, and it is hoped that users will provide feedback. If you are interested in using this free software, please contact us at:

info [at] lifeexplorer.eu

samuel.hornus [at] inria.fr