Re: does anyone know a substitution for CrystalMaker

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

Hi All

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Ji ZhengYu]
> > As subject. I am looking for a software to substitute for
> > CrystalMaker, any suggestion?
>
>  http://viewmol.sourceforge.net/
>  http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
>  http://easychem.sourceforge.net/
>  http://pymol.sourceforge.net/
>  http://www.uku.fi/~thassine/projects/ghemical/
>  http://gdis.seul.org/
>  http://www.chemicalgraphics.com/PovChem/

many of these work better with large molecules, such as proteins. 
Avogadro is  probably a better choice for what you describe.  It imports 
many different kinds of formats.  I also use Ghemical but it does not have 
the ability to visualize polyhedra and it has a sort of funky interface. 
Both of these are in Debian.

As someone else mentioned, Jmol is a good choice too but there was only an 
unoffical Debian package which is 3 years out of date and not on the 
http://debian.wgdd.de/debian site any longer.  I do have that package if 
you are interested but I have not updated it at all.

Cheers,

Carlo


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