What LBDraw does
Communication with DNAMAN
Standard drawing tools
Drawing tools for molecular biologists
LBDraw is a Windows drawing program. It is designed to draw and assemble drawing objects. It provides not only standard drawing tools, such as rectangle and ellipse tools, but also the tools designed for molecular biologists, such as double strand DNA structure and virus tools. LBDraw is an OLE server and client application, which means you can incorporate objects of any other OLE server programs into LBDraw and deliver LBDraw objects to other OLE client applications. This is especially useful to draw diagrams in molecular biology.
DNAMAN is an OLE server of the restriction map object. When you insert a restriction map of DNAMAN into a LBDraw document, you can edit the map directly in the document with the DNAMAN editing tools.
The word processor (Text Editor) of DNAMAN is an OLE client. You can insert the drawings of LBDraw into the word processor. You are also able to edit the drawings in DNAMAN with the drawing tools of LBDraw.
LBDraw provides the following standard drawing tools: Text, Straight Line, Arrow Straight Line, Multiple Line, Arrow Multiple Line, Rectangle and Square, Rounded Rectangle and Square, Ellipse and Circle, Polygon and Curves. You can select any color for drawing lines and filling into objects.
All objects in LBDraw can be aligned to top, bottom, left or right. You can also move them forward or back in the third dimension.
In addition to above standard drawing tools, LBDraw provides tools specifically for molecular biologists: Double Strand DNA Structure, Needle, Virus, Bacteriaphage, Test Tube/Beaker and Flask.
You can fill with liquid (color) into Needle, Test Tube/Beaker and Flask. You can also regulate the levels of liquid in these containers.
