                   Bodil Modeling Environment

                       Version 0.8.1 beta.

INSTALLATION:

Linux / IRIX:

Uncompress the gzipped tar package.

The Bourne script 'Bodil' in the 'bin' directory will start the program.
You can add a soft link to the script.


Windows:

Uncompress the zipped package.  That should create a folder 'bodil081'.
Move that folder to "C:\Program Files".

You can make a shortcut to the bodil080\bin\bodil.bat script.
It is advisable to change the 'Start in' folder for the
shortcut as well as to select 'Minimized' for the 'Run' property
of the shortcut.

If you uncompress the package to elsewhere you have to change
the BODILDIR variable to point the location of bodil081 folder.
Please, use short folder names.  The BODILDIR variable is set
in the script file: "INSTALLATIONPATH\bodil081\bin\bodil.bat".


REGISTRATION:

On this release we enforce the registration with a license key.
The appropriate key can be obtained from:
http://www.abo.fi/bodil

The BODILKEY variable is set in the starting script
(bin/Bodil on unix, bin\bodil.bat on win32).
You must edit the replace the default value 'demo'
with the correct key.


OTHER NOTES:

On its first run a directory $HOME/.Bodil will be created.
Any file in this directory with extension '.conf' will be read by
the user preference manager of Bodil. Syntax of preference files
is described in the online manual.
Under directory '.Bodil', a directory 'tmp' will be used for temporary files.

The 3D graphics requires OpenGL version 1.1 or newer.

The HTML documentation is accessible from the program.
The 'tutorial/Bodil.html' is a simple usage tutorial.

The program will be updated, revised, and improved on a frequent basis.
If you find any bugs, or have ideas/wishes, please contact bodil@abo.fi.


NOTE: This distribution contains a rotamer library from
http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/databases/rotamer.html
by
SC Lovell, JM Word, JS Richardson and DC Richardson (2000)
"The Penultimate Rotamer Library"
Proteins: Structure Function and Genetics 40: 389-408.

