PLATON is written by Ton Spek, and is a versatile crystallographic tool implementing a large variety of standard geometrical calculations (i.e. bonds, angles, torsions, planes, rings, inter-molecular contacts (H-Bond analysis), Coordination etc), tests (i.e. for missing symmetry, voids in the lattice etc.), utilities (cell transformation, SHELXL input etc.), graphics (e.g automatic labelled 'ORTEP-lookalike plots and the molecular graphics program PLUTON) and several filters (e.g. the DIFABS technique for empirical absorption correction (Walker & Stuart), and the SQUEEZE option for handling disordered solvents, described by Sluis & Spek, Acta Cryst. 1990,A46, 194). This latter option places great demands on the available memory.
PLATON是通用結(jié)晶學(xué)軟件工具，可以用來(lái)進(jìn)行各種幾何學(xué)計(jì)算、分子內(nèi)氫鍵分析、作圖等等。支持PDb格式，但許多功能不能用來(lái)分析蛋白。若安裝過(guò)RASMOL與POV-RAY,設(shè)置后，可直接調(diào)用這兩個(gè)程序。
