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File Formats


Formats for importing
You can import a wide variety of file types into the 3D Window:
- MSV (DS ViewerPro binary file format, a Microsoft compound document)
- PDB (Brookhaven Protein Data Bank)
- MOL (Molecular Design, Ltd.)
- CAR (Accelrys, Insight II)
- CSD (Cambridge Structural Database Crystallographic files)
- MOL2 (Tripos)
- MSF (Accelrys, QUANTA)
- MSI (Accelrys, Cerius2)
- CPD, CHM (Accelrys, Catalyst)
- CIF (Crystallographic Information File)
- XYZ (generic)
- SKC (MDL, ISIS)
- GRD (Accelrys, Insight II Grid File)
- SMI (SMILES)

Formats for exporting or saving
You have a rich set of export and save options. These include saving in several graphics formats, standard chemical data formats, VRML format, or DS ViewerPro's own binary format.
- DS ViewerPro (MSV) Files: Files with an .msv extension correspond to the DS ViewerPro binary format. Save files in this format when you need to save any display changes for future sessions. An MSV file can be dragged and dropped into OLE-compliant programs such as Microsoft Word.
- Brookhaven (PDB) Files: Brookhaven Protein Data Bank files.
- MDL (MOL) Files.
- CPD, CHM (Accelrys, Catalyst) Files.
- SMI (SMILES) Files.
- XYZ Coordinate Files.
- GIF Files: Files with a .gif extension are GIF bitmap files. They do not contain any molecular information, and thus cannot be read back into the DS ViewerPro, but can be used as a picture file.
- JPEG (JPG) Files: Files with a .jpg extension are JPEG bitmap files. They do not contain any molecular information, but can be used as a picture file.
- Bitmap (BMP) Files: Files with a .bmp extension are bitmap files. They do not contain any molecular information, but can be used as a picture file.
- PNG (PNG) Files: Files with a .png extension are "Portable Network Graphics" files. They do not contain any molecular information, but can be used as a picture file.
- VRML (WRL) Files: Files with a .wrl extension are VRML world files. VRML files contain only graphical information used for displaying a scene in a VRML browser. These files do not contain any atomic or molecular information, thus a molecule cannot be imported from a VRML file.
- POV-Ray Files: Files with a .pov extension are POV-Ray files. These files can be imported into the POV-Ray ray tracing program to generate very high quality pictures. More information about POV-Ray can be obtained at http://www.povray.org.
Last updated June 10, 2002.
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