RasMol

RasMol is a software which allows to display macromolecules graphically, such as those that occur in the Protein Data Bank. Originally the program by Roger Sayle was developed in the early 1990s, today it is developed by a community on ARCiB laboratory. In France, the program has been recommended by the Ministry of Education and used in teaching at universities, colleges and schools of the upper stages.

Historically it was an important tool for molecular biologists since the program enabled early to visualize molecules on the then home computers. Because RasMol was already run on these computers and no mainframe needed that were not available any because of their high cost, RasMol has been an important research tool in molecular biology and still is. RasMol has a complex history and is available since version 2.7 under a dual license ( GPL or commercial license " RASLIC "). RasMol is next BALLView, Avogadro, molecule, and PyMOL Jmol an open source program that can visualize molecules. RasMol has its own scripting language, which was acquired by Jmol - thus RasMol scripts run under Jmol. Rasmol scripts can also be read from Sirius. RasMol is available on UNIX systems, and Windows. On UNIX, it can communicate with other programs via Tcl / Tk under Windows via Dynamic Data Exchange ( DDE).