MolViewX 2.1 review

MolView X is the OSX version of MolView.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 2599K Developer: Donald Danforth Price: $0.00 Updated: 16 Feb 2006

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MolView X is the OSX version of MolView. Nearly all of the features of MolView have been ported. MolViewX now outputs POV-Ray files for rendering. MolViewX also outputs VRML files for Strata 3DPro and a number of UNIX based applications.

MolViewX can read several types of coordinate files and display ribbon, CPK, stick, ball&stick, and surface figures. The interface is completely interactive (i.e. no comand line input). There are countless options that control the display colors and characteristics.

There are several analysis tools such as neighbors, distance lines, hydrophathy plots, Edmunson wheel plots, B value plots (and color coded stick models), distance plots. In addition, the user can open 2 different structures and even perform 3D alignments on them.

Also, subsets of the structure can be stored as MOL files and be read in later.