MarvinView Application Options

Version 5.2.4

The Marvin Beans package contains the MarvinView application.

Usage

mview [options] [structure file]

Options

-h
--help Print command line help

- import structures from standard input

--geometry WxH+X+Y set preferred window size (W x H) and location (X, Y)

--real-time display input stream in real time

--spreadsheet use spreadsheet-like viewer with one row per input record (default if the input file contains data fields)

--gridbag use compact matrix-like viewer with more molecules in a row (default if the input file does not contain data fields)

-c <number> maximum number of visible columns for GridBagView (default: 2)

-r <number> maximum number of visible rows for GridBagView (default: 2)

-n <number> maximum number of molecules to import

-S display unique SMILES code

-f <f1>:<f2> show specified fields (<f1>, <f2>, ...) in the given order from an SDfile. Field names are separated by colons.

Options for displaying additional atomic properties stored in SDfile:

-p <file> palette definition property file*

-t <tagName> name of the tag in the SDfile that contains property symbols*

* See the Property colors in MarvinView section

You can also pass options to Java VM when you run the application from command line.

Examples

Displaying the first 1000 structures from str.smi:
```
mview str.smi
```
Viewing 500 structures starting at the 9500-th one from str.smi:
```
mview -n 500 -s 9500 str.smi
```
Showing structures and 3 fields (ID, name, and stock) from stock.sdf:
```
mview -f "ID:name:stock" stock.sdf
```
Display in 2 columns, show SMILES code:
```
mview -Sc 2 stock.sdf
```
Search using JChem's command line search module and display the structure and the ID field from the results:
```
jcsearch -q 'Clc1ccccc1' -f sdf input.sdf | mview -f ID -
```
Displaying the progress of a command line molecular dynamics simulation in real time:
```
program_producing_molfiles_on_stdout | mview --real-time -
```
Atom coloring according to property symbols in SDFile:
```
mview -p colors.ini -t PPL stock.sdf
```

Property colors in MarvinView

The property list

It is possible to color molecules in MarvinView by certain properties of their atoms. These properties are stored in an additional data field in an SDfile as a property list. The name of the data field can be specified for MarvinView by the -t parameter The property list contains one or more property symbols for each atom, by the order of the atoms. The properties of different atoms are separated by semicolon. The number of specified atoms must match the number of atoms in the molecule. If an atom has two or more properties, they are separated by slash.

An example describing the atomic properties of a molecule containing 5 atoms:

;;a;b/c;

the first two atoms have no properties.
the third atom has property denoted by symbol "a"
the fourth atom has both property b and c
the fifth atom has no properties.

The color configuration file

The color profile for each data field labels is stored in a configuration file in "symbol = value" format. The file name of the color profile is an input parameter of MarvinView (-p).

Example:

a = red
b = blue
c = green
d = black
e = navy
f = maroon
a/d = purple
b/d = lime
a/c = aqua
empty = #808080
other = fuchsia

All property symbols and their combinations (separated by slash character) can have own colors assigned. There are two special symbols: "empty" and "other". Atoms not having any property will be displayed with the color of "empty". The rest of atoms are displayed with the color of "other" (undefined combinations). MarvinView supports the 16 color names of the HTML standard (see below), but it is allowed to assign any valid RGB color value to symbols.

Supported color names:

Name

Code

Sample

Black

#000000

Green

#008000

Silver

#C0C0C0

Lime

#00FF00

Gray

#808080

Olive

#808000

White

#FFFFFF

Yellow

#FFFF00

Maroon

#808080

Navy

#000080

Red

#FF0000

Blue

#0000FF

Purple

#800080

Teal

#008080

Fuchsia

#FF00FF

Aqua

#00FFFF