Laboratory for Molecular Simulation

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Grasp

by Anthony Nicholls

Grasp is a molecular visualization and analysis program that is particularly useful for the display and manipulation of the surfaces of molecules and their electrostaticproperties.

Grasp Home Page Trouble-Shooting

Running Grasp:

On chmsgiand any SGI machine that is running IRIX 6.5 or later and has chmsgi:/chem mounted you will need to add the following line to your .cshrc or .tcshrc file:

alias grasp '/chem/Grasp/grasp

To run Grasp type: Grasp

Trouble-Shooting

grasp: Command not found.
The alias that you created in your .cshrc is either incorrect or has not been activated yet. Check the line in your .cshrc or .tcshrc file and make sure it matches the commands given above. To activate the modified .cshrc you may log out and log back in or simply type:
source .cshrc or
source .tcshrc
This will activate any changes made to your .cshrc file.

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