Graphics Software

Program

Description

Contact Person

Supported Operating Systems

Bobscript

Non-interactive graphics program based on an older version of molscript that adds the capability of displaying electron density.

IRIX

CHAIN

Model building and visualization

Earl Rutenber

IRIX
Chimera Extensible Molecular Modeling Program
IRIX, MacOSX
Coot Coot is for model building, model completion and validation.
IRIX, MacOSX, PC Linux

DINO

Visualization

Pascal Egea

IRIX, MacOSX

MSV

Molecular Surface Viewer

Pascal Egea

IRIX
Garlic 1.6 Molecular Viewer and Editor
Linux, MacOSX

Grasp

Interactive graphics with an emphasis on displaying electrostatic surfaces

 

IRIX

Ligplot 4.5.3

Makes schematic illustration of protein-ligand interactions

PC Linux, MacOSX

MidasPlus

Interactive graphics program

IRIX
MIFit MIFit is a fitting and molecular modeling program (Manual PDF)
PC Linux

Molden

A package for displaying MOLecular DENsity

IRIX, MacOSX

MolMol

Interactive graphics program

IRIX, MacOSX

Moloc

Model building and visualization

IRIX

Molray

A web interface to POV-Ray that produces high-quality molecular-graphics images from O plot files and other sources

IRIX

Molscript

Non-interactive graphics program produces nice postscript schematics or, in combination with raster3d, rendered schematics

IRIX, MacOSX

Nucplot

A program to generate schematic diagrams of protein-nucleic acid interactions

IRIX

O 12

Model building and visualization

IRIX, PC Linux, MacOS X

Povray

The Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer is a computer graphics software that can create stunning photo-realistic computer-generated images and animations

IRIX, PC Linux, MacOS X

Pymol (UCSF only)

Optimized real-time 3D structure visualization (Manual)

IRIX, MacOS X

Raster3D

Non-interactive graphics program-especially useful with molscript

Peter Hwang

IRIX, MacOSX

Ribbons 3.20

Interactive graphics program with an emphasis on making schematic diagrams

 

IRIX, MacOSX

Setor

Interactive graphics program with an emphasis on making schematic diagrams (75 page pdf manual)

IRIX
VIDA Visual Interface to Drug design Applications

MacOSX, IRIX

XtalView

Heavy atom refinement, phasing, model building

IRIX, PC Linux

Miscellaneous

chooch

Calculates anomalous scattering coefficients from a fluorescence scan of your crystal which can be useful in analyzing MAD data

GEM

Eric Fauman's "most excellent" program for superimposing protomer coordinates.

 

'Jiffies'

Small utilities for data formating

 

Last modified 01/23/09 CAW