Freeware for molecular modelling - On PC? (Jan/30/2006 )
Hi,
is there any nice freeware for molecular modelling?
i'm using Insight 2000 but i'd like to work on my PC (if possible)...
thanks 
Sébastien_
Chimera is pretty neat... I've been playing around with the Linux version for awhile now.
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/
They have a Win32 version as well.
-Hank
thank you a lot!
these softwares seem cool
but can we build molecules with Chimera?
Sébastien_
something that was suggested today by someone in the lab is:
http://www.ballview.org/Gallery
Looks good. I haven't used it yet.
RasMol and OpenRasMol
Open source, RasMol is an important scientific tool for visualisation of molecules created by Roger Sayle in 1992. RasMol is used by hundreds of thousands of users world-wide to view macromolecules and to prepare publication-quality images. 13
VMD
VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. Runs on MacOS-X, Unix, or Windows, free with source code. 13
CN3D
Cn3D is a helper application for your web browser that allows you to view 3-dimensional structures from NCBI's Entrez retrieval service. Cn3D runs on Windows, Mac, and Unix. 13
Swiss-PdbViewer
ExPASy Swiss-PdbViewer, is an application that provides a user friendly interface allowing to analyze several proteins at the same time. The proteins can be superimposed in order to deduce structural alignments and compare their active sites ... 17
PyMOL
PyMOL is a USER-SPONSORED molecular modeling system with an OPEN-SOURCE foundation. 12
iMol for Mac OS X
iMol is a free molecular visualization application for Mac OS X operating system. iMol allows loading molecules using several file formats: PDB, XYZ, MOL2, HIN, CAR, ALC, BIO. The molecules can be saved as PDB, XYZ or BIO files. 19
Structure Prediction
Less than 800 amino acide. A meta server integrate predictions from different remote prediction providers. All results from fold recognition servers are managed in an uniform format. Provide jury predictions based on the results collected ... ... 23
I have the links here:
http://www.cyberpostdoc.org/mambo/index.ph...emid=4&catid=88
since i was searching for a modeling tool (not a viewer...), BALLView was the best freeware i have tested
for information see the paper:
Moll A, Hildebrandt A, Lenhof HP, Kohlbacher O.
BALLView: a tool for research and education in molecular modeling.
Bioinformatics. 2006 Feb 1;22(3):365-6. Epub 2005 Dec 6.
PMID: 16332707 [PubMed - in process]
many thanks to people who give us nice tools freely
Sébastien_