A "kinemage" (kinetic image) is a scientific illustration presented as an
interactive computer display.  MAGE is a display program, which presently
runs on Macintosh and PC computers, to view and explore kinemages.  An
early version of MAGE is briefly described in the Richardson & Richardson
article in the first issue of Protein Science (Jan. '92).  The kinemage
format is defined in that article, and although there are now more
keywords and parameters, the basic definitions have been stable. 

PREKIN is a utility program which prepares trial kinemages from Brookhaven
Protein Data Bank format coordinate files.  An early version is briefly
described in the Richardson & Richardson article in the first issue of
Protein Science (Jan. '92). 

These demo kinemages are included with the software:

Demo2_2a.kin  "THE KINEMAGE: A TOOL FOR SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION"
D. Richardson and J. Richardson
	    Reader's tutorial:
	Kin.1 - Carboxypeptidase active site motions (basic operations, IDs, animation)
	Kin.2 - Carbonic anhydrase, Calphas and active site (zoom, stereo) 
	Kin.3 - Carbonic anhydrase, closeup of loop (centering, unpickable points)
	Kin.4 - Leucine zipper structure (zoom, slab, ztrans)
	Kin.5 - Alpha helix (measures, drawline)

Demo2_2b.kin  "THE KINEMAGE: A TOOL FOR SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION"
	    Further examples for authors:
	Kin.1 - Palette of colors available in MAGE
	Kin.2 - Format example of a kinemage file
	Kin.3 - NMR NOE data: BPTI PalphaPbeta        
	Kin.4 - Phi vs Psi vs Chi1 plot for phenylalanine 
	Kin.5 - Helix-helix contact, rows i,i+3 and j,j+4

The home archive for this software is via anonymous ftp to
	orion.oac.uci.edu
in folder /protein/Kinemage