Visualization

Commercial Software

WebLab Viewer Pro 3.2: handles simple molecules as well as DAN/RNA crystals, simple energy minimization (MM2), ...

Molecule Viewer: 3D molecular structures in many different rendering modes

Orbital Viewer: displays hydrogenic atomic orbitals for principal quantum number up to 5 and azimuthal quantum number up to 3 (s, p, d, and f)

PovChem 2.0: conversion of pdb files to povray input files with nice windows frontend

ChemSymphony Lite: Java applets display your 3D and 2D structures on the internet/intranet

Chime: RasMol as a Plug - In for IE and Netscape

Jmol: a Java/Swing-based molecular dynamics viewer and animator, works very well, also displays vibrations calculated by Gaussian

MAGE: (kinemage) display kinetic images of proteins

MOLDEN: pre- and post processing program of molecular and electronic structure

MOLMOL: MOLecule analysis and MOLecule display

MolPOV: convert pdb files to povray input files for raytracing

MolScript: displaying molecular 3D structures, such as proteins, in both schematic and detailed representations, use with Raster3D

MolView: view molecules on the Mac

MOVIEMOL: visualization and animation of molecular structures

Ortep III: visualization for crystal structures

PovChem 1.0: simple conversion of pdb files to pov ray input files for raytracing

PovRay: maybe the best free raytracer

RasMol: simple and quick molecule viewer with own programming language, maybe one of the most popular

Raster3D: raytracing program for molecules, very nice output

Re_View:4D-chemical viewer/analyser which is capable of 3D-molecular display, animation (4D-display), geometrical analysis

Swiss-PdbViewer: PDB; protein; modelling; visualisation; comparison; electron density map; ray-tracing

WinMol: simple 3D dsiplay of molecules

XMakeMol: view molecules in high quality, display vectors

XMol: view and print molecules in high quality

xtal-3d: generate VRML files of your molecules