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From: Karsten Suhre (Karsten.Suhre_at_igs.cnrs-mrs.fr)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 08:30:25 CST

Dear VMD users,

  I was very impressed about VMD's capabilities to produce real 3-D protein
models using a 3-D printer (as presented on the VMD home page as spotlight 4:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/spotlight/).

  In order to investigate the possibility to buy such a printer at our
institute, I would be pleased to hear more about other users' experience with
this technique, i.e.

* What would be a good printer for low-throughput applications (in fact, what
would be the minimum amount of money to put up to obtain a reasonable
solution)?

* Or alternatively, does someone know about private companies that would be
able to produce such protein models on command?

Thank you very much for your comments,

Kind regards,

Karsten Suhre
   
IGS-CNRS, Marseille, France.