Coot

Coot is a toolkit for Macromolecular Crystallography and model-building. Coot uses GTK widgets mmdb, clipper, and OpenGL to provide interactive tools for model-building, refinement and validation.

Installing by package managers

The easiest way to install Coot is using package managers.

Homebrew (Mac / Linux)

After installing Homebrew, run the commands below.

brew install brewsci/bio/coot
coot

APT (Debian)

Install to run using commands below.

# Add sid (Debian's unstable package repo) 
echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install coot
coot

Flatpak (Linux in general)

After installing Flatpak and registering Flathub, run the commands below. (You will need admin privileges to install Flatpak with sudo.)

flatpak install flathub io.github.pemsley.coot

# Simply click Coot's icon in the menu, or
flatpak run io.github.pemsley.coot  

Building from source

See this.

Blog

Coot Development Blog

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