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Welcome to jV wiki.

jV version 3 (formerly known as PDBjViewer) is a program to display molecular graphics of protein and nucleic acids. jV supports the following features:
 * jV can read and display PDBML files, the canonical XML format for the Protein Data Bank.
 * Of course, jV can read and display the traditional PDB format files, too.
 * RasMol-like usability.
 * jV can process more than one molecules.
 * jV can display polygons specified by XML. (XML Schema for polygons is available.)
 * Multiple polygons can be processed simultaneously, and be superimposed onto molecular images.
 * Animation can be realized.
 * jV runs on the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) so that it can work as a stand-alone application as well as an applet.
 * The graphics of jV is based on OpenGL (JOGL), thereby producing fairly beautiful pictures.

The program 'jV' has been developed by Kengo Kinoshita (Human Genome Center, Insutitute for Medical Science,University of Tokyo) and Haruki Nakamura (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka Univeristy), with the support from JST-BIRD.

Start up
You can start up jV with Java Web Start technology immediately from here.
 * stable JOGL version (recommended)
 * recent JOGL version

Download
You can also download the program and start it up locally. In this case, installing JOGL is required in advance (see Installation page). The following links take you to the download pages. (latest version is 3.6.5@2009/8/22)
 * binary
 * source code (registration will be required)

Other resources

 * PDBj Help page in English/Japanese.
 * Japanese documents with some usage samples.