A freeware molecule display applet
including source code
If you have a Java-capable web browser, the DisMol applet should appear
below. If you don't, you may find this page rather boring.
This is a big applet, so it may take one or two minutes to load into your
browser (sorry for the delay).
If you see a
molecule below, you can try rotating the molecule in various directions
by dragging your mouse on the black background (be sure to hold down the
mouse button while you do that). See the text window for other tricks.
There are currently 2 molecules to choose from in the pulldown menu;
the second one (from the IMM web site) can be pretty slow to
download (240k) and display (several seconds to draw the entire molecule on a 300 mhz Pentium 2).
If you install this on your own server, you will need to change the urls
of the files to point to chemical files on your own server.
I originally had an input window that allowed you to enter an arbitrary
URL of a .pdb or .xyz to display. It wasn't usefull due to security restrictions on
Java Applets. You get a security violation if you try to read a url
that's not on the server that launched the applet.
Send suggestions, comments or questions to
Peter McCluskey.
DisMol evolved from Will Ware's NanoCAD code
and from Roger Sayle's RasMol code.
If you're willing to do a little work installing RasMol, you can get much
better control over how you see molecules with RasMol than with DisMol.
Archives and precompiled executables
- Source file archives, these contain all the source files and compiled
class files:
- Java source files. Most of the ones I've listed here are largely
ported from RasMol's C code. (See also Will Ware's
NanoCAD home page
for other source files on which these depend):