Accelrys ViewerLite

[E.L. Willighagen]

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 08:42, Rzepa, Henry wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 May 2003 16:43, D.R.Roberts wrote:
>> It has just come to my attention that Accelrys has withdrawn its excellent
>> free molecular viewing package ViewerLite and now only offers ViewerPro
>> which retails at $299. I would be interested (a) to know the reaction of
>> other users of this software to the news and (b) if there are any
>> alternative freeware applications that offer the same or similar
>. functionality particularly for viewing crystal lattices.

<snip>

> An alternative method was to deploy applets, and for this
> something like  the excellent JMol (http://jmol.sourceforge.net)
> continues to improve  (being at version 6.  For a deployed example,
> see both their page and eg
> http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/organic/tutorial/ir/ ) There are quite a few
> others; I did summarise a few months ago at
> http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/talks/author/ . Again applets suffer from
> the supposition that the author drives how you will view the resulting
> molecule in the browser.

<snip> 

> None of which of  course  answers  David's original question about viewing
> crystal lattices. Other than  Viewer,  I believe  Crystalmaker
> http://www.crystalmaker.co.uk/  is probably the best, but again  I think
> that is commercial with no "Lite" version.

Jmol can display crystal lattices too nowadays. To see this in action, go
this this page:

http://jmol.sourceforge.net/scripting.html

And click estron.cml link just below the second applet window. It will show 
you a hypothetical (but realistic) molecular crystal of the steroid. Note 
that Jmol broke up the molecules to put all atoms within the unit cell. (This 
is optional)

kind regards,

Egon Willighagen

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