PLATON - to PLUTON

MOLECULAR GRAPHICS TOOLS PLATON HOMEPAGE
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The PLATON subprogram PLUTON, a decendent of the stand-alone program PLUTON, is from the user point of view an independent program. It is part of PLATON largely for operational and maintenance reasons, sharing common routines and data structures.

Clicking on this button provides a direct path to the PLUTON link using the input file as supplied in the PLATON invocation.

Alternatively, PLUTON can be invoked directly via 'platon -p' or with the instruction 'PLUTON NATIVE' in the input file.

Note: All other invocations of PLUTON will be driven by coordinate data generated by PLATON in order to have PLUTON-PLATON compatibility.

Default instructions for PLUTON

PLUTON (i.e. the PLUTON path through PLATON) starts to read data from an input file (e.g. compound_name.res). That file usually, but not necessarily, contains the pertinent data for the structure only. Before switching to interactive input (console or menu) a file named compound_name.def is read. This file may be used to execute a number of instructions before the first plot.

Example of .def

STRAW COLOR
LABEL
PLOT

Such a file is generated automatically when PLUTON is run in the PLATON-Compability mode via the PLUTONauto button.

MOLECULAR GRAPHICS TOOLS PLATON HOMEPAGE

28-Feb-2002 A.L.Spek