Free Molecular Graphics Programs
PROGRAM LINK LIBRARIES REQUIRED PROGRAM TYPE
Chime

http://joel.mdli.com/products/framework/chime/index.jsp

 libc, libm, libX11, libXt, libXext,
libXm, libC, libgen 		browser plug-in,
SGI machine required
Chimera

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/

 

 many libraries,
still under development 		stand alone program,
online registration required
Cn3D

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3dunix.shtml

 

 libc, libm, libX11, libXt, libXext,
libXmu, libXp 		both browser plug-in
and stand alone program
Deep View Swiss-PdbViewer

http://tw.expasy.org/spdbv/mainpage.html

 

 libc, libm, libX11, libXt, libXext,
libXmu, libXi, libXp, libMesaGL,
libMesaGLU, libpthread, libz 		stand alone program,
IRIX or linux required
Flex

http://www.sdsc.edu/CCMS/Packages/flex.html

 

 libc, libm, libX11,
libxview, libolgx, xlibflexdraw 		stand alone, binaries for
DEC/alpha, DEC/MIPS,
IBM RS, SGI, Sun
gdpc

http://www.acclab.helsinki.fi/~frantz/software/gdpc.php

 

 libc, libm, libX11, libXext, libXi,
libgtk, libgdk, libgmodule, libglib,
libdl, libpthread 		stand alone program
gOpenMol

http://www.csc.fi/gopenmol/

 

 libc, libm, libX11, libXt, libXext,
libXmu, libXi, libdl, libXaw, Tcl/Tk,
+ Mesa or Open GL libraries 		graphics interface to the
OpenMol set of programs
GNU GPL license
Jmol

http://jmol.sourceforge.net/

 

 Java-based application stand alone program
(Java-based application)
Kinemage

http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/

 

 libc, libm, libX11,
libXt, libXm 		stand alone program
mdxvu

http://www.nibsc.ac.uk/mdxvu/manual.htm

 

 libc, libm, libX11,
precompiled for some systems 		stand alone program
MOLEKEL

http://www.cscs.ch/molekel/

 

 libc, libm, libX11, libXext, libXmu, libXi,
libMesaGL, libMesaGLU, libtiff, libjpeg 		precompiled for SGI IRIX,
linux PC and SunOS,
registration required
MOLMOL

http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/wuthrich/software/molmol/

 

 libc, libm, libX11, libXt, libXext, libXm,
libGL, libGLU, libGLcore, libC, libgen,
libgen, libpng, libz 		stand alone, binaries for
DEC/MIPS, DEC/alpha,
SGI, SPARC and RS/6000
MolScript

http://www.avatar.se/molscript/

 

 libc, libm, libX11, libXt, libXext, libXmu,
libGL, libGLU, libGLcore, libmedia, libC,
libgen, libvice, libjpeg, libpng, libz 		stand alone, online
registration required
Moviemol

http://www.fos.su.se/moviemol.html

 

 

 libc, libm, libX11, libXext,
libYgl or OpenGL 		stand alone program
NAMOT

http://namot.lanl.gov/

 

 libc, libm, libX11,
libxview, libolgx 		stand alone program
PREPI

http://www.bmm.icnet.uk/prepi/

 

 Precompiled binary for
Silicon Graphics IRIX 		stand alone, registration
required (written agreement)
Protein Explorer

http://molvis.sdsc.edu/protexpl/frntdoor.htm

 

 

 Works under linux, but in
a Windows subsystem:
requires Win4Lin or WMWare 		requires Chime 2 and commercial
Windows subsystem for linux,
online registration required
PyMOL

http://pymol.sourceforge.net/

 

 

 libc, X libs, libpng, zlib, python, Mesa Requires Python, an intepreted
programming language
RasMol

http://www.rasmol.org/

 

 libc, libm, libX11
libXext, libXi 		stand alone program
Raster3D

http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d/raster3d.html

 

 Mixed FORTRAN 77 and C code,
requires both compilers 		stand alone program
VEGA

http://users.unimi.it/~ddl/

 

 

 libc, libm, libz, liblocale No OpenGL support
for linux version
Viewmol

http://viewmol.sourceforge.net/

 

 libc, libm, libX11, libXt, libXext, libXm,
libXi, libXp, libGL, libGLU, libtiff,
libtiff, libpthread, libdb, libdl, libutil 		graphical front end for
comp. chemistry programs,
GNU GPL license
VMD

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

 

 Statically linked binaries for AIX,
HPUX, IRIX, linux, Solaris and TRU64 		stand alone, online
registration required
XMakemol

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xmakemol

 

 libc, libm, libX11, libXt,
libXm, libXpm, libGL, libGLU 		stand alone program,
GNU GPL license
Ymol

http://www.teoroo.mkem.uu.se/daniels/ymol.html

 

 libc, libm, libX11,
libXext 		stand alone program