Hi,
You might be interested to know about another 3D molecular viewer that I've just come across. It's called MacMolecule2 (the Windows equivalent is PCMolecule2) and can be used as a helper application to open pdb and other format files. There is also a freeware version of these programs, known as MacMolecule2 lite and PCMolecule2 lite.
They can be obtained from the University of Arizona at:
They have many features that I haven't seen in other some viewers (such as Rasmol & WebLab), such as including a sidebar which contains text about the molecule allowing a scripted tutorial as the student views the moelcule in different orientations.
MacMolecule/PCMolecule 2 is a lot more sophisticated than the early version on MacMolecule which has been around the archives for a few years now. It views rather large files very rapidly, allows the storage of multiple commented views within one file, and selected atom colouring. It exports GIF, PICT, and movies. For examples of it in action browse around http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/talks/rsc-young-chem/ and http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/vsepr/ (where the files are labelled Linus, which was the MacMolecule2 development name. Use the settings: MIME type: chemical/x-macmolecule extension: .mcm (some sites use .lin so set this extension as well) File Type: TEXT (MacOS only) Dr Mark J Winter (Deputy Head of Department) Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 222 9304 fax: +44 (0)114 222 9303 e-m: mark.winter@sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/ The Sheffield Chemdex is a listing of chemistry sites on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemdex/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)