The TURBO-FRODO Software
The Web Page Designed for Turbo Frodo and Turbo X Users Turbo Frodo is a general purpose molecular modelling environnement aimed at people with the need
to model de novo macromolecules, polypeptides as well as nucleic acids.
to build such macromolecules from experimental 3-D data obtained from X-ray crystallography and NMr.
to display the resulting models using various representations including Van der Waals and Connolly’s molecular dot surfaces as well as spline surfaces.
Compact views include cpk, icosahedra and ball-and-stick representations styles, alone or in combination.
Turbo-Frodo reads and displays X-ray density maps. Electron density maps are calculated by the program Mappage, available in most crystallographic packages.
With Turbo Frodo, you can color your molecules according to different criteria, either objectively or subjectively, to compare them with existing structures and to evaluate their geometry.
Turbo Frodo is also aimed at ligand fitting and protein stacking. You can interactively mutate a protein or chemically modify it, and evaluate the resulting conformational changes.
Secondary structure calculation and their representation can be performed automatically.