DebiChem Project
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3D Visualization
DebiChem 3D Viewers

This metapackage will install 3D Viewers which might be useful for chemists.

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adun.app
Molecular Simulator for GNUstep (GUI)
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Adun is a biomolecular simulator that also includes data management and analysis capabilities. It was developed at the Computational Biophysics and Biochemistry Laboratory, a part of the Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics of the UPF.

This package contains UL, the Adun GUI frontend.

Please cite: Michael A. Johnston, Ignacio Fdez. Galván and Jordi Villà-Freixa: Framework-based design of a new all-purpose molecular simulation application: The Adun simulator. (PubMed) J. Comp. Chem. 26(15):1647-1659 (2005)
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avogadro
Molecular Graphics and Modelling System
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Avogadro is a molecular graphics and modelling system targeted at molecules and biomolecules. It can visualize properties like molecular orbitals or electrostatic potentials and features an intuitive molecular builder.

Features include:

  • Molecular modeller with automatic force-field based geometry optimization
  • Molecular Mechanics including constraints and conformer searches
  • Visualization of molecular orbitals and general isosurfaces
  • Visualization of vibrations and plotting of vibrational spectra
  • Support for crystallographic unit cells
  • Input generation for the Gaussian, GAMESS and MOLPRO quantum chemistry packages
  • Flexible plugin architecture and Python scripting

File formats Avogadro can read include PDB, XYZ, CML, CIF, Molden, as well as Gaussian, GAMESS and MOLPRO output.

Please cite: Marcus D Hanwell, Donald E Curtis, David C Lonie, Tim Vandermeersch, Eva Zurek and Geoffrey R Hutchison: Avogadro: An advanced semantic chemical editor, visualization, and analysis platform. (eprint) J. Cheminf. 4:17 (2012)
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ballview
free molecular modeling and molecular graphics tool
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BALLView provides fast OpenGL-based visualization of molecular structures, molecular mechanics methods (minimization, MD simulation using the AMBER, CHARMM, and MMFF94 force fields), calculation and visualization of electrostatic properties (FDPB) and molecular editing features.

BALLView can be considered a graphical user interface on the basis of BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) with a focus on the most common demands of protein chemists and biophysicists in particular. It is developed in the groups of Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany) and Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tuebingen, Germany). BALL is an application framework in C++ that has been specifically designed for rapid software development in Molecular Modeling and Computational Molecular Biology. It provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for Molecular Mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization.

Please cite: Andreas Moll, Andreas Hildebrandt, Hans-Peter Lenhof and Oliver Kohlbacher: BALLView: a tool for research and education in molecular modeling. (PubMed,eprint) Bioinformatics 22(3):365-366 (2006)
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cclib
Parsers and algorithms for computational chemistry
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A Python library that provides parsers for computational chemistry log files. It also provides a platform to implement algorithms in a package-independent manner.

This package contains helper scripts for end users.

If you are looking for the unit tests and data files managed by cclib, they are distributed separately as in non-free package cclib-data.

Please cite: Noel M. O'Boyle, Adam L. Tenderholt and Karol M. Langner: cclib: A library for package-independent computational chemistry algorithms. (eprint) J. Comp. Chem. 29(5):839-845 (2008)
drawxtl
crystal structure viewer
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DRAWxtl reads a basic description of the crystal structure, which includes unit-cell parameters, space group, atomic coordinates, thermal parameters or a Fourier map, and outputs a geometry object that contains polyhedra, planes, lone-pair cones, spheres or ellipsoids, bonds, iso-surface Fourier contours and the unit-cell boundary.

Four forms of graphics are produced:

  • an OpenGL window for immediate viewing
  • the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-RAY) scene language for publication-quality drawings
  • the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) for dissemination across the Internet
  • a Postscript rendering of the OpenGL window for those who want high-quality output but do not have POV-RAY installed.

File formats DRAWxtl can read include CIF, FDAT, FullProf (pcr), GSAS, SCHAKAL, SHELX, DISCUS and WIEN2k.

Please cite: Larry W. Finger, Martin Kroeker and Brian H. Toby: DRAWxtl, an open-source computer program to produce crystal-structure drawings. (eprint) J. Appl. Cryst. 40:188-192 (2007)
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gabedit
graphical user interface to Ab Initio packages
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Gabedit is a graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages like:

  • MPQC
  • GAMESS-US
  • Gaussian
  • Molcas
  • Molpro
  • Q-Chem

These Ab Initio software packages might run locally or on a remote server (supporting FTP, RSH and SSH). Gabedit can display a variety of calculation results including most major molecular file formats. The advanced "Molecule Builder" allows one to rapidly sketch in molecules and examine them in 3D. Graphics can further be exported to various formats, including animations.

slurm-wlm-torque and gridengine-client are workload managers which provide wrappers for PBS commands. Gabedit also allows one to configure it for any other workload manager.

Please cite: Abdul-Rahman Allouche: Gabedit - A graphical user interface for computational chemistry softwares. (eprint) J. Comp. Chem. 32:174-182 (2011)
gamgi
General Atomistic Modelling Graphic Interface (GAMGI)
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The General Atomistic Modelling Graphic Interface (GAMGI) provides a graphical interface to build, view and analyze atomic structures. The program is aimed at the scientific community and provides a graphical interface to study atomic structures and to prepare images for presentations, and for teaching the atomic structure of matter.

The package is enhanced by the following packages: gamgi-data gamgi-doc
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garlic
visualization program for biomolecules
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Garlic is written for the investigation of membrane proteins. It may be used to visualize other proteins, as well as some geometric objects. This version of garlic recognizes PDB format version 2.1. Garlic may also be used to analyze protein sequences.

It only depends on the X libraries, no other libraries are needed.

Features include:

  • The slab position and thickness are visible in a small window.
  • Atomic bonds as well as atoms are treated as independent drawable objects.
  • The atomic and bond colors depend on position. Five mapping modes are available (as for slab).
  • Capable to display stereo image.
  • Capable to display other geometric objects, like membrane.
  • Atomic information is available for atom covered by the mouse pointer. No click required, just move the mouse pointer over the structure!
  • Capable to load more than one structure.
  • Capable to draw Ramachandran plot, helical wheel, Venn diagram, averaged hydrophobicity and hydrophobic moment plot.
  • The command prompt is available at the bottom of the main window. It is able to display one error message and one command string.
Please cite: Damir Zucic and Davor Juretic: Precise Annotation of Transmembrane Segments with Garlic - a Free Molecular Visualization Program (eprint) Croatica Chemica Acta 77(1-2):397-401 (2004)
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gausssum
parse and display Gaussian, GAMESS, and etc's output
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GaussSum parses the output files of ADF, GAMESS, GAMESS-UK, Gaussian, Jaguar and PC GAMESS calculations to extract useful information.

GaussSum uses GNUPlot to display the progress of geometry optimisations, density of states spectrum, UV-VIS spectra, IR spectra, Raman spectra, and electron density difference maps. It can also display all lines containing an arbitrary phrase and more.

Please cite: Noel M. O'Boyle, Adam L. Tenderholt and Karol M. Langner: cclib: A library for package-independent computational chemistry algorithms. J. Comp. Chem. 29(5):839-845 (2008)
gdis
molecular and crystal model viewer
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A GTK+ based program for the display and manipulation of isolated molecules, periodic systems and crystalline habits. It is in development, but is nonetheless fairly functional. It has the following features:

  • Support for several file types (CIF, BIOSYM, XYZ, XTL, MARVIN, and GULP)
  • A simple molecular creation and manipulation tool
  • A dialogue for creating starting configurations for molecular dynamics simulations
  • Assorted tools for visualization (geometry information, region highlighting, etc.)
  • Animation of BIOSYM files (also rendered animations, see below)

GDIS also allows you to perform the following functions through other packages:

  • Model rendering (courtesy of POVRay)
  • Energy minimization (courtesy of GULP)
  • Morphology calculation (courtesy of cdd)
  • Space group processing (courtesy of SgInfo)
  • View the Periodic Table (courtesy of GPeriodic)
  • Load additional filetypes, such as PDB (courtesy of Babel)
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gdpc
visualiser of molecular dynamic simulations
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gpdc is a graphical program for visualising output data from molecular dynamics simulations. It reads input in the standard xyz format, as well as other custom formats, and can output pictures of each frame in JPG or PNG format.

jmol
Molecular Viewer
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Jmol is a Java molecular viewer for three-dimensional chemical structures. Features include reading a variety of file types and output from quantum chemistry programs, and animation of multi-frame files and computed normal modes from quantum programs. It includes with features for chemicals, crystals, materials and biomolecules. Jmol might be useful for students, educators, and researchers in chemistry and biochemistry.

File formats read by Jmol include PDB, XYZ, CIF, CML, MDL Molfile, Gaussian, GAMESS, MOPAC, ABINIT, ACES-II, Dalton and VASP.

Please cite: A. Herráez: Biomolecules in the computer: Jmol to the rescue. (PubMed,eprint) Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 34(4):255-261 (2006)
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kalzium
periodic table and chemistry tools
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Kalzium is a full-featured chemistry application, including a Periodic Table of Elements, chemical reference, chemical equation solver, and 3D molecule viewer.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

qutemol
interactive visualization of macromolecules
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QuteMol is an interactive, high quality molecular visualization system. It exploits the current GPU capabilities through OpenGL shaders to offer an array of innovative visual effects. QuteMol visualization techniques are aimed at improving clarity and an easier understanding of the 3D shape and structure of large molecules or complex proteins.

Qutemol uses advanced OpenGL techniques and might not work correctly with all video cards and drivers.

Features QuteMol offers include:

  • Real time ambient occlusion
  • Depth aware silhouette enhancement
  • Ball-and-stick, space-filling and liquorice visualization modes
  • High resolution antialiased snapshots for creating publication quality renderings
  • Automatic generation of animated gifs of rotating molecules for web page animations
  • Interactive rendering of macromolecules (>100k atoms)

QuteMol reads PDB files as input.

Please cite: Marco Tarini, Paolo Cignoni and Claudio Montani: Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing for Enhancing Real Time Molecular Visualization. (eprint) IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 12(5):1237-1244 (2006)
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rasmol
visualization of biological macromolecules
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RasMol is a molecular graphics program intended for the visualisation of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. The program is aimed at display, teaching and generation of publication quality images.

The program reads in a molecule coordinate file and interactively displays the molecule on the screen in a variety of colour schemes and molecule representations. Currently available representations include depth-cued wireframes, 'Dreiding' sticks, spacefilling (CPK) spheres, ball and stick, solid and strand biomolecular ribbons, atom labels and dot surfaces.

Supported input file formats include Protein Data Bank (PDB), Tripos Associates' Alchemy and Sybyl Mol2 formats, Molecular Design Limited's (MDL) Mol file format, Minnesota Supercomputer Center's (MSC) XYZ (XMol) format, CHARMm format, CIF format and mmCIF format files.

This package installs two versions of RasMol, rasmol-gtk has a modern GTK-based user interface and rasmol-classic is the version with the old Xlib GUI.

The package is enhanced by the following packages: rasmol-doc
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Please cite: Roger A. Sayle and E. James Milner-White: RasMol: Biomolecular graphics for all. (PubMed) Trends in Biochemical Sciences (TIBS) 20(9):374 (1995)
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raster3d
tools for generating images of proteins or other molecules
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Raster3D is a set of tools for generating high quality raster images of proteins or other molecules. The core program renders spheres, triangles, cylinders, and quadric surfaces with specular highlighting, Phong shading, and shadowing. It uses an efficient software Z-buffer algorithm which is independent of any graphics hardware. Ancillary programs process atomic coordinates from PDB files into rendering descriptions for pictures composed of ribbons, space-filling atoms, bonds, ball+stick, etc. Raster3D can also be used to render pictures composed in other programs such as Molscript in glorious 3D with highlights, shadowing, etc. Output is to pixel image files with 24 bits of color information per pixel.

Please cite: E.A. Merritt and D.J. Bacon: Raster3D Photorealistic Molecular Graphics. (PubMed) Methods in Enzymology 277:505-524 (1997)
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shelxle
graphical user interface for SHELXL
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ShelXle combines an editor with syntax highlighting for the SHELXL-associated .ins (input) and .res (output) files with an interactive graphical display for visualization of a three-dimensional structure including the electron density (Fo) and difference density (Fo-Fc) maps.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0021889811043202

Please cite: Christian B. Hübschle, George M. Sheldrick and Birger Dittrich: ShelXle: a Qt graphical user interface for SHELXL. (eprint) J. Appl. Cryst. 44(6):1281-1284 (2011)
v-sim
Visualize atomic structures
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V_Sim visualizes atomic structures such as crystals, grain boundaries, molecules and so on (either in binary format, or in plain text format).

The rendering is done in pseudo-3D with spheres (atoms) or arrows (spins). The user can interact through many functions to choose the view, set the bindings, draw cutting planes, compute surfaces from scalar fields, duplicate nodes, measure geometry... Moreover V_Sim allows one to export the view as images in PNG, JPG, PDF (bitmap), SVG (scheme) and other formats. Some tools are also available to colorize atoms from data values or to animate on screen many position files.

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viewmol
graphical front end for computational chemistry programs
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Viewmol is able to graphically aid in the generation of molecular structures for computations and to visualize their results.

At present Viewmol includes input filters for Discover, DMol3, Gamess, Gaussian 9x/03, Gulp, Mopac, PQS, Turbomole, and Vamp outputs as well as for PDB files. Structures can be saved as Accelrys' car-files, MDL files, and Turbomole coordinate files. Viewmol can generate input files for Gaussian 9x/03. Viewmol's file format has been added to OpenBabel so that OpenBabel can serve as an input as well as an output filter for coordinates.

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xbs
3-d models and movies of molecules
Maintainer: Matthew Vernon
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xbs ball-and-sticks plotting program can create still and moving three dimensional models of molecules. X11 and PostScript output are available. Models can be rotated, scaled, etc. Various labeling, shading, lighting, coloring options are available.

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xcrysden
Crystalline and Molecular Structure Visualizer
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XCrySDen is a crystalline and molecular structure visualisation program, which aims at display of isosurfaces and contours, which can be superimposed on crystalline structures and interactively rotated and manipulated. It can run on most UNIX platforms, without any special hardware requirements.

XCrySDen allows for real-time capture of display. Several movie encoders are supported, in particular for Animated-GIF convert (imagemagick), gifsicle, or whirlgif are necessary. For AVI/MPEG mencoder or ppmtompeg (netpbm) is required. For window dumps either imagemagick or xwd (x11-apps) needs to be present.

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xmakemol
program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems
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XMakemol is a mouse-based program, written using the LessTif widget set, for viewing and manipulating atomic and other chemical systems. It reads XYZ input and renders atoms, bonds and hydrogen bonds.

Features include:

  • Animating multiple frame files
  • Interactive measurement of bond lengths, bond angles and torsion angles
  • Control over atom/bond sizes
  • Exporting to Xpm, Encapsulated PostScript and XYZ formats
  • Toggling the visibility of groups of atoms
  • Editing the positions of subsets of atoms
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