for years, I searched the major search engines for a program that could show me the secondary structures of protein in a linear fashion from common Protein Data Bank or PDB data files. however I didn’t find that program even for Windows platform. so I decided to write my own program that could change data embodied in PDB to a rational graphic image. so i studied PDB file information and searched WWW for algorithms to change coordinate into secondary structure information. I finally found DCCP, a program, that convinced me a lot!
using information from DCCP it wasn’t that hard to draw a linear protein with it’s secondary structure. so i began writing program core library called Kavoshex.dll based on VB.NET 2005 in 2007. but due to the time deficiency i abandoned the project right in the middle of coding its main engine. few month ago i decided to complete project no matter how much time it would waste. i decided to write the program in VB.NET 2008 and i began to write a whole new code with updated methods that could help program performance.
after about a month writing the core and program interface i compiled it and i started using program for about several weeks which helped me to change the codes a bit to make the program more stable, although no crash occurred at all. it was the time to give a name to this program so i named it KavosheX for Kavosh and Explore. the first one in Persian means the last one! i thought that this program could develop more, so i called the original version BETA 1. i think this program deserves more development so i will update its content and engine continuously to BETA 2 and final version.
in march 2008 i decided to publish this FREE program on the web so every one interested could use it for no charge.
NOTE: everyone interested to design a logo and icon for this program can leave me a message at thecellbiology’s community page for KavosheX
the following image, is output of kavoshex for a small protein:
some screen shot of program in action:
