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moorhen

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Moorhen molecular graphics

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Moorhen

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Moorhen is a web browser molecular graphics program based on the Coot desktop program. It is developed by compiling some CCP4 libraries and programs, Coot and their dependencies to Web Assembly and then combining with a React user interface.

The emscripten suite of tools is required to do the compilation.

The sources of CCP4, Coot, Privateer, FFTW, and GSL are not included. They are downloaded and (possibly) patched by the build process of this project.

The following libraries/programs are compiled to Web Assembly:

  • libccp4 (8.0.0)
  • clipper ('gemmi' branch)
  • ssm (1.4.0)
  • mmdb2 (2.0.22)
  • gemmi 0.7.0
  • libcoot (commit hash specified in VERSIONS; latest release is 1.3.3)
  • Lhasa (commit 4e11ebf3b6)
  • fftw 2.1.5
  • fftw3 3.3.10
  • gsl 2.8
  • Boost 1.89.0
  • glm 0.9.9.8
  • Eigen 5.0.1
  • RDKit 2025_09_6
  • graphene 1.10.8
  • libsigc++ 3.8.0
  • Freetype 2.14.3
  • Jsoncpp 1.9.6

Moorhen is available to use at https://moorhen.org.

Further information can be found in our wiki pages and our dev. docs.

Binaries

Binaries are available on the releases page. Please read the instructions there before using.

Compilation instructions

Requirements

  • A Bourne-like shell
  • git
  • curl
  • patch
  • ninja
  • meson
  • cmake
  • flex
  • bison
  • A native C++ compiler. (This is required for part of the boost build system).
  • autoconf,autotools
  • libtool
  • emsdk/emscripten (Steps 1 and 2 below)

    Most of these (except emscripten) can be installed by somelike like sudo apt install git cmake curl patch meson ninja-build autoconf automake libtool flex bison g++ pkg-config on a Debian like system. All of these should be available through Homebrew or Ports on macOS.

    Moorhen should build on any reasonably recent version of macOS (Intel or Arm64) and any reasonly recent Linux distribution (x86_64 or aarch64). Tested on Ubuntu 22.04 x86_64, Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm/Debian 12 on Pi5, macOS Monteray and Sonama and others.

  1. Install emscripten (following https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/downloads.html):
    git clone https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk.git
    cd emsdk
    git pull
    ./emsdk install latest
    ./emsdk activate latest
    (Moorhen is known to build successfully with emscripten version 6.0.1 - the 22nd June 2026 release, and several earlier versions. There may have been a problem with 5.0.1)

  2. Each time you want to use emscripten:
    source ./emsdk_env.sh

  3. Get the source:
    git clone https://github.com/moorhen-coot/Moorhen.git
    cd Moorhen

  4. Build gsl, Boost, RDKIt, Coot, the CCP4 libraries and examples:
    In this branch, it is intended that you do the build in the source directory. After first checkout you should run the following to build the 32-bit and 64-bit WebAssembly versions of Moorhen:
    ./moorhen_build.sh
    ./moorhen_build.sh --64bit
    This should build all dependencies and then build Moorhen.

It is important to build both versions at the moment.

  1. To run the Moorhen molecular graphics application:
    cd baby-gru
    npm start
    And then point a web browser at http://localhost:5173/ .

Updating

When you wish to update the application from this git repository, do the following steps:

  1. git pull
  2. ./moorhen_build.sh moorhen
  3. ./moorhen_build.sh --64bit moorhen

Updating Coot and Lhasa dependencies (for developers)

When you wish to update the Coot (and/or Lhasa) git repository used for compiling Moorhen, do the following steps:

  1. ./update_git_rev coot
  2. ./moorhen_build.sh moorhen
  3. ./moorhen_build.sh --64bit moorhen

For updating Lhasa, substitute coot for lhasa in the first command: ./update_git_rev lhasa.

Moorhen The Moorhen application

What else can do with the compiled libraries?

See coot/moorhen-wrappers.cc to see use of EMSCRIPTEN_BINDINGS to expose Coot methods to the web browser.

Any program you write, which uses the subset of Coot, Clipper, code which this project compiles to WASM, can itself be compiled to WASM and used within node or Web Browser. Studying the examples should show you to do I/O, which is different in the 2 cases. If you require more classes or methods from the libraries to be exposed to JavaScript, then changes need to be made to coot/moorhen-wrappers.cc. This should only be necessary for browser usage - in node your whole program can be written in C++.

References

  • Emscripten
  • Coot
    • P. Emsley; B. Lohkamp; W.G. Scott; Cowtan (2010). Features and Development of Coot, Acta Crystallographica. D66 (4) p486–501.
  • Privateer
    • Agirre, J., Iglesias-Fernández, J., Rovira, C., Davies, G.J., Wilson, K.S. and Cowtan, K.D., (2015), Privateer: software for the conformational validation of carbohydrate structures, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 22(11), p.833.
    • Bagdonas, H., Ungar, D. and Agirre, J., (2020), Leveraging glycomics data in glycoprotein 3D structure validation with Privateer, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 16(1), p2523-2533.
  • Clipper
    • Cowtan K (2003), The Clipper C++ libraries for X‐ray crystallography, IUCr Comput Comm Newslett 2, p4–9
  • CCP4
    • Winn MD, Ballard CC, Cowtan KD, Dodson EJ, Emsley P, Evans PR, Keegan RM, Krissinel EB, Leslie AGW, McCoy A, McNicholas SJ, Murshudov GN, Pannu NS, Potterton EA, Powell HR, Read RJ, Vagin A, Wilson KS (2011), Overview of the CCP4 suite and current developments, Acta Cryst D67, p235–242.
  • Gemmi
  • Gesamt
    • Krissinel E. (2012), Enhanced fold recognition using efficient short fragment clustering, Journal of molecular biochemistry, 1(2), p76–85.
  • ProSMART
    • R.A. Nicholls, M. Fischer, S. McNicholas and G.N. Murshudov (2014) Conformation-Independent Structural Comparison of Macromolecules with ProSMART. Acta Cryst. D70, p2487-2499.
  • GSL
    • M. Galassi et al, GNU Scientific Library Reference Manual (3rd Ed.), ISBN 0954612078
    • https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
  • FFTW
    • Frigo, Matteo and Johnson, Steven G. (2005), The Design and Implementation of FFTW3, Proceedings of the IEEE 93(2), p216-231.
  • RDKit
  • Boost
  • GLM
  • Eigen C++ Template Library
  • Freetype
  • Igraph
  • JsonCPP
  • Libpng
  • libsigcplusplus
  • Privateer
    • The Web app: Dialpuri, J. S., Bagdonas, H., Schofield, L. C., Pham, P. T., Holland, L., Bond, P. S., Sánchez Rodríguez, F., McNicholas, S. J. & Agirre, J. (2024). Online carbohydrate 3D structure validation with the Privateer web app. Acta Cryst. F80, 30-35.
    • General Privateer citation (old): Agirre, J., Iglesias-Fernández, J., Rovira, C., Davies, G.J., Wilson, K.S. and Cowtan, K.D., 2015. Privateer: software for the conformational validation of carbohydrate structures. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 22(11), p.833.
    • Glycomics powered validation: Bagdonas, H., Ungar, D. and Agirre, J., 2020. Leveraging glycomics data in glycoprotein 3D structure validation with Privateer. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 16(1), 2523-2533.
    • Theory behind Privateer: Agirre, J., 2017. Strategies for carbohydrate model building, refinement and validation. Acta Crystallographica Section D, 73(2), pp.171-186.
    • Torsional analyses: Dialpuri, J. S., Bagdonas, H., Atanasova, M., Schofield, L. C., Hekkelman, M. L., Joosten, R. P. & Agirre, J., 2023. Analysis and validation of overall N-glycan conformation in Privateer. Acta Crystallographica Section D, 79, 462-472.
  • Zlib
    • Adler, Mark (22 January 2024). "Zlib-announce zlib 1.3.1 released". Retrieved 23 January 2024.
  • PubChem
    • Kim S, Chen J, Cheng T, Gindulyte A, He J, He S, Li Q, Shoemaker BA, Thiessen PA, Yu B, Zaslavsky L, Zhang J, Bolton EE. PubChem 2023 update. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Jan 6;51(D1):D1373-D1380. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac956. PMID: 36305812
  • SMILES
    • Weininger, David SMILES, a chemical language and information system. 1. Introduction to methodology and encoding rules Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 28(1), p31-36 (1988) https://doi.org/10.1021/ci00057a005