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Developer(s) | Jmol development team |
Stable release | (19 January 2011 | ) []
Preview release | (19 January 2011 | ) []
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Available in | Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian[1] |
Type | Molecular modelling |
License | LGPL |
Website | www.jmol.org and wiki.jmol.org |
Jmol is an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D,[2] that does not require 3D acceleration plugins.[3] Jmol returns a 3D representation of a molecule that may be used as a teaching tool,[4] or for research e.g. in chemistry and biochemistry. It is free and open source software, written in Java and so it runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix systems. There is a standalone application and a development tool kit that can be integrated into other Java applications, such as Bioclipse and Taverna.
A popular feature is an applet that can be integrated into web pages to display molecules in a variety of ways. For example, molecules can be displayed as "ball and stick" models, "space filling" models, "ribbon" models, etc.[5] Jmol supports a wide range of molecular file formats, including Protein Data Bank (pdb), Crystallographic Information File (cif), MDL Molfile (mol), and Chemical Markup Language (CML).[6]
The Jmol applet, among other capabilities, offers an alternative to the Chime plugin,[4] which is no longer under active development. While Jmol has many features that are not available in Chime, it does not claim to reproduce all Chime functionality (most notably, Chime's Sculpt mode). Chime requires plug-in installation and Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 2.0 on Microsoft Windows, or OS 9/Netscape Communicator 4.8 on the Macintosh. Jmol requires Java installation and operates on a wide variety of platforms. For example, Jmol is fully functional in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Google Chrome on Microsoft Windows, in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome on Linux, and in Safari on Mac OS X.
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See also
- List of molecular graphics systems
- List of software for molecular mechanics modeling
- Chemistry Development Kit (CDK)
- Molecular graphics
- Proteopedia
- PyMOL
- Jmol extension for MediaWiki
References
- ^ Jmol translations
- ^ Chen, Jim X. (2008), Springer, ed., Guide to Graphics Software Tools, p. 471, ISBN 978-1-84800-900-4, http://books.google.com/?id=Rv2gncprg3gC&pg=PA471&dq=jmol+is+3d#v=onepage&q=jmol%20is%203d&f=false
- ^ Willighagen, E.; Howard, M. (2007), "Fast and Scriptable Molecular Graphics in Web Browsers without Java3D", Nature Preceedings, doi:10.1038/npre.2007.50.1, http://precedings.nature.com/documents/50/version/1
- ^ a b Herraez, A (2006), "Biomolecules in the Computer: Jmol to the Rescue", Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 34 (4): 7, doi:10.1002/bmb.2006.494034042644, http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/recordDetail?accno=EJ759053
- ^ Herraez, A (2007), Lulu, ed., How to Use Jmol to Study and Present Molecular Structures, Volume 1, p. 21, ISBN 978-1-84799-259-8, http://books.google.com/?id=59kQFyfbsJMC&pg=PA21&dq=jmol+applet+web#v=onepage&q=jmol%20applet%20web&f=false
- ^ Willighagen, E (2001), "Processing CML conventions in Java", Internet Journal of Chemistry 4 (4): 1–9, http://www.mendeley.com/download/public/2225521/3634250982/f7c33288f4a8512172f0810947f082c55fbe72d3/dl.pdf
External links
- Jmol official web site
- Jmol wiki where a list of Websites, Wikis, Moodles, ... using Jmol is available