Jmol

Jmol
	Jmol three-dimensional structure rendering of streptavidin
المطوّر	Jmol development team
الإطلاق المبدئي	2001; 23 years ago
المستودع	sourceforge.net/projects/jmol
مكتوب بلغة	Java
نظام التشغيل	Cross-platform
المنصة	Systems with Java and Web browsers without Java
متاح في	16 languages
	قائمة اللغات Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
النوع	Molecular modelling
الرخصة	LGPL 2.0
الموقع الإلكتروني	www.jmol.org

Jmol is computer software for molecular modelling chemical structures in 3-dimensions.^[2] Jmol returns a 3D representation of a molecule that may be used as a teaching tool,^[3] or for research e.g., in chemistry and biochemistry.

Software

Jmol is written in the programming language Java, so it can run on the operating systems Windows, macOS, Linux, and Unix, if Java is installed. It is free and open-source software released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.0. A standalone application and a software development kit (SDK) exist that can be integrated into other Java applications, such as Bioclipse and Taverna.

A popular feature is an applet that can be integrated into web pages to display molecules in a variety of ways. For example, molecules can be displayed as ball-and-stick models, space-filling models, ribbon diagrams, etc.^[4] Jmol supports a wide range of chemical file formats, including Protein Data Bank (pdb), Crystallographic Information File (cif), MDL Molfile (mol), and Chemical Markup Language (CML). There is also a JavaScript-only (HTML5) version, JSmol, that can be used on computers with no Java.^[5]

The Jmol applet, among other abilities, offers an alternative to the Chime plug-in,^[3] which is no longer under active development. While Jmol has many features that Chime lacks, it does not claim to reproduce all Chime functions, most notably, the Sculpt mode. Chime requires plug-in installation and Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 2.0 on Microsoft Windows, or Netscape Communicator 4.8 on Mac OS 9. Jmol requires Java installation and operates on a wide variety of platforms. For example, Jmol is fully functional in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Google Chrome, and Safari.

Crystal structure of an H/ACA box RNP from Pyrococcus furiosus
Highlighting two salt bridges in hemoglobin tetramer (hemo group as sticks at bottom-right)
A fragment of transcription factor TFIIIA forming three consecutive zinc finger motifs, bound to a stretch of DNA
Eubacterial 70S Ribosome from Thermus thermophilus