A utility that converts from the POV-Ray files of protein structures generated by Accelrys Discovery Studio Visualizer into LScripts that automatically regenerate the model within Newtek LightWave. It supports protein and nucleic acid ribbons, as well as ball and stick molecular models. The model will  be reproduced in LightWave more-or-less how it appears in DS Visualizer.

The models are ordinary LightWave objects, so are fully editable in Modeler, and can be animated in Layout. There are options to automatically colour the ribbon models using separate surfaces for each colour, using vertex colour maps, or a mixture of both. The options are controlled using a simple Windows user interface.

Left: The crystal structure of the Zif268 protein, from PDB ID 1AAY (Elrod-Erickson et al.), rendered with LightWave. The structure was retrieved from the PDB, and the initial model made with DS Visualizer, with the "solid ribbon" and "rings" options used for protein and DNA respectively.

Click to Download (dspovtols.zip, 1.3 Mb)

Latest version released Dec 2009. To install, unzip the archive. To uninstall, just delete the folder. Tested with Accelrys DS Visualizer 1.5 - 2.5, Lightwave 7.5c and LScript 2.6  on Windows XP. It may well work with later versions of LightWave and Windows, but I have not tested it.