3DNA was created by Dr. Xiang-Jun Lu in the laboratory of Professor Wilma K. Olson at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey. Since leaving Rutgers, Dr. Lu has continued to work on this project as an independent consultant in his spare time. This updated website provides users with more background information and technical details about 3DNA, including working examples. Thus, those who are really interested in nucleic acid structures can have a clear understanding of "what's going on in that black box".
3DNA has benefited greatly from interactions with the Nucleic Acid Database (NDB) project led by Professor Helen Berman. Dr. Zukang Feng at the PDB/NDB, Dr. A. R. Srinivarsan, Ms. Yurong Xin, Mr. Andrew Colasanti, Mr. Jin Tao, Ms. Fei Xu and other members of the Olson lab., and numerous users from around the globe have helped in making 3DNA a better tool to serve the scientific community.
This site has been tested to work on Windows 2000/XP running IE v5.0/6.0 and NetScape 7.2, RedHat Linux running Mozilla v1.4, and Mac OS X running IE v5.1 and Safari. It does not work on SGI running NetScape v4.7. Please let us know if have any problem with other OS/browser combinations.
Software Link: 3DNA - Analysis/ Rebuild/ Visualize of three-dimensional of DNA