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==Visualization vs. Modeling== | |||
Software for visualizing the three-dimensional structures of molecules, ''molecular visualization software'', can be distinguished from molecular modeling software. Strictly speaking, ''Visualization'' software displays a pre-existing molecular model without changing it, while ''modeling'' software can create the model, or modify it by adding or removing moieties, changing covalent bonds, bond angles, conformation, or non-covalent interactions. | Software for visualizing the three-dimensional structures of molecules, ''molecular visualization software'', can be distinguished from molecular modeling software. Strictly speaking, ''Visualization'' software displays a pre-existing molecular model without changing it, while ''modeling'' software can create the model, or modify it by adding or removing moieties, changing covalent bonds, bond angles, conformation, or non-covalent interactions. | ||
==Free molecular visualization software== | |||
Examples of popular free molecular visualization software packages include: | Examples of popular free molecular visualization software packages include: | ||
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*[[FirstGlance in Jmol]], an open-source user-interface to [[Jmol]] utilized in the ''3D View'' links in papers in the journal [http://www.nature.com/nature Nature] that report new macromolecular structures. | *[[FirstGlance in Jmol]], an open-source user-interface to [[Jmol]] utilized in the ''3D View'' links in papers in the journal [http://www.nature.com/nature Nature] that report new macromolecular structures. | ||
==Free molecular modeling software== | |||
Molecular modeling software usually includes visualization capabilities. | Molecular modeling software usually includes visualization capabilities. | ||
