Science: Chemistry: Software: Structural: Visualization

A directory of links to free molecule viewers and editors.

Desktop Molecular Modeller: A simple program for constructing and viewing small molecules and proteins in 3D with some energy calculation/minimization capabilities. Run on any PC with Windows 9X/NT. Commercial software.

A visualization and analysis program useful for the display and manipulation of the surfaces of molecules and their electrostatic properties. Commercial software.

Provided for the convenience of users and software developers of open source versions of RasMol.

A free program for viewing and analyzing several proteins at the same time. Some energy minimzation and homology modeling features are also included.

A free program for visualization and analysis of biological systems such as proteins, nucleic acids, and lipid bilayer assemblies.

Plastic molecular models for use in chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology (DNA double helix), semiconductors and crystal lattice structures.

Plastic molecular models for constructing polypeptides and DNA molecules.

Digitized versions of 16mm movies of molecular structures produced in the early days of interactive molecular graphics.

A free molecular visualization and animation program for the X window system. Creates images and movies, using either the built in renderer or povray. Still alpha.

A free and flexible molecular graphics and modelling package which can be also used to generate animated sequences.

ProteinScope is a free program to view and create animations of Protein Data Bank PDB files.

A molecular viewer for Windows9x systems with sequence editor and protein builder. Free for academic use. Additionaly the iMol molecule viewer is available for Mac OS X systems.

Molecular visualization freeware for proteins, DNA, and macromolecules. Freely available for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX.

Plastic molecular structure models for research and education in science, intended especially for biochemistry.

A molecular model building program for displaying data from MM2, MOPAC, Gaussian94, charmm and amber4 outputs. Supported on most windows, mac and unix platforms.