Jmol, a Java molecular viewer for three-dimensional chemical structures
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Developer(s) | Jmol development team |
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Initial release | 2001 |
Stable release | 14.6.4 (October 15, 2016 | )
Preview release | 14.5.0 (7 November 2015 | )
Repository | sourceforge |
Development status | Active |
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Platform | Web browsers with Java |
Available in | 16 languages |
List of languages
Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
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Type | Molecular modelling |
License | LGPL 2.0 |
Website | www |
Jmol is computer software for molecular modelling chemical structures in 3-dimensions. Jmol returns a 3D representation of a molecule that may be used as a teaching tool, or for research e.g., in chemistry and biochemistry. It is written in the programming language Java, so it can run on the operating systems Windows, macOS, Linux, and Unix, if Java is installed. It is free and open-source software released under a GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.0. A standalone application and a software development kit (SDK) exist that can be integrated into other Java applications, such as Bioclipse and Taverna.
A popular feature is an applet that can be integrated into web pages to display molecules in a variety of ways. For example, molecules can be displayed as ball-and-stick models, space-filling models, ribbon diagrams, etc. Jmol supports a wide range of chemical file formats, including Protein Data Bank (pdb), Crystallographic Information File (cif), MDL Molfile (mol), and Chemical Markup Language (CML). There is also a JavaScript-only (HTML5) version, JSmol, that can be used on computers with no Java.