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.

Ben Sandler

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

Grasp

Interactive graphics with an emphasis on displaying electrostatic surfaces

 

IRIX

InsightII v2000.1

3D graphical environment for molecular modeling. 

Peter Hwang

IRIX

Ligplot 4.4.2

Makes schematic illustration of protein-ligand interactions

NO CONTACT

IRIX, PC Linux, MacOSX

MidasPlus

Interactive graphics program

Sherry LaPorte

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

Molden

A package for displaying MOLecular DENsity

Nobuyuki Ota

IRIX, MacOSX

MolMol

Interactive graphics program

NO CONTACT

IRIX, MacOSX

Moloc

Model building and visualization

Cynthia Fuhrmann

IRIX

Molray

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

Nobuyuki Ota

IRIX

Molscript

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

Ben Sandler

IRIX, MacOSX

Nucplot

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

NO CONTACT

IRIX

O 10.0. 3

Model building and visualization

NO CONTACT

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

NO CONTACT

IRIX, PC Linux, MacOS X

Pymol (UCSF only)

Optimized real-time 3D structure visualization (Manual)

NO CONTACT

IRIX, MacOS X

QUANTA 2000

Model building and visualization

Peter Hwang

IRIX

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

 Hu Pan

IRIX, MacOSX

Setor

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

NO CONTACT

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 07/17/03 CAW