bully  | 2007-09-10
Teaching molecules
RasMol is an interesting teaching tool, created for the bio lab at your school. It needs to read from a file the molecule coordinates, and then it will display the molecule on the screen, using a variety of color schemes and molecule representations. It supports a large variety of files, like Protein Data Bank (PDB), Tripos Associates' Alchemy and Sybyl Mol2 formats, Molecular Design Limited's (MDL) Mol file format, Minnesota Supercomputer Center's (MSC) XYZ (XMol) format, CHARMm format, CIF format and mmCIF format – this means you will most likely find the molecule you want to display in one format or another, that RasMol is able to use. This teaching tool should not be left out when considering a bio lab computer, and since it runs on Windows, Apple Machintos and UNIX systems, your investment should not be too great in means of hardware. Easy to use, and fun even for the non-bio-chemist.