Molekel is an opensource (GPL) multiplatform molecular visualization program being developed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
Version 5.0 has been released on December 21st 2006 and is an almost complete rewrite of Molekel 4.x. The latest version is 5.3.0. Check out the News and file release section for updates.
Some of the features available in the new version are:
- Multiplatform: Mac OS X, Windows, Linux
- Completely redesigned UI
- Visualization of residues (ribbon or schematic)
- Complete control over the generation of molecular surfaces (bounding box and resolution)
- Visualization of the following surfaces:
- Orbitals
- Iso-surface from density matrix
- Iso-surface from Gaussian cube grid data
- SAS
- SES
- Van der Waals
- Animation of molecular surfaces
- Export to PostScript
- Export animation
- Plane widget to visualize a scalar field: the plane can be freely moved in 3d space and the points on the plane surface will be colored according to the value of the scalar field: a cursor can be moved on the plane surface to show the exact value of the field at a specific point in space.
- Fully Doxygen-commented source code.
This site is currently used for all the development tasks and as the main source code repository.
The bioinformatics.org project page is here.