Coot

Coot is a toolkit for Macromolecular Crystallography and model-building. Coot uses GTK widgets mmdb, clipper, and OpenGL to provide interactive tools for model-building, refinement and validation.

Installation

APT (Debian)

Install to run using commands below.

# Add sid (Debian's unstable package repo)
echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install coot
coot

Flatpak (Linux)

After installing Flatpak and registering Flathub, run the commands below.

flatpak install flathub io.github.pemsley.coot

# Simply click Coot's icon in the menu, or
flatpak run io.github.pemsley.coot

To install the beta build (more recent but possibly less stable), register flahub-beta repository and then run the commands below.

flatpak install flathub-beta io.github.pemsley.coot

# Simply click Coot's icon in the menu, or
flatpak run io.github.pemsley.coot//beta

You can see the flatpak manifest here.

Homebrew (MacOS / Linux)

After installing Homebrew, run the commands below.

brew install brewsci/bio/coot
coot

To install the latest development version (bleeding edge), run the commands below.

brew install --HEAD brewsci/bio/coot
coot

Windows

Download the installer for WinCoot from here.

As a component of CCP4 Suite (Linux / MacOS / Windows)

Coot-1 can be installed by using the package manager included in the CCP4 suite.

CCP4 suite is can be downloaded from CCP4 Download pages.

Building from source

See this.

Documentation

• Coot Documentation
• Libcootapi Documentation
• Wiki
• FAQ
• Tutorials

Blog

Coot Development Blog