Jmol 11.8 RC 4 / 11.6.27

Jmol 11.8 RC 4 / 11.6.27 provides a very useful, open source and free molecule viewer designed for students, educators, and researchers in chemistry and biochemistry. It is cross-platform, running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix systems.

Major Features:

1. Free, open-source software licensed under the  GNU Lesser General Public License
2. Applet, Application, and Systems Integration Component:
   • The JmolApplet is a web browser applet that can be integrated into web pages. It is ideal for development of web-based courseware and web-accessible chemical databases. The JmolApplet provides an upgrade path for users of the Chime plug-in.
   • The Jmol application is a standalone Java application that runs on the desktop.
   • The JmolViewer can be integrated as a component into other Java applications.
3. Multi-language:
   • Translated into multiple languages: Catalan (ca), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), Estonian (et), French (fr), German (de), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Korean (ko), Norwegian Bokmal (nb), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Portuguese - Brazil (pt_BR), Russian (ru), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr) (in addition to the native English, en-US).
   • Automatically adopts the language of the user's operating system, if it is among the translations available. You can change to another language if desired.
   • For up-to-date details or instructions for adding your language, see the Wiki.
4. Cross-platform:
   • Windows
   • Mac OS X
   • Linux / Unix
5. Supports all major web browsers:
   • Internet Explorer (Win32)
   • Mozilla and Firefox (Win32, OSX, Linux, Unix)
   • Safari (Mac OS X)
   • Opera 7.5.4 (Win32 only)
   • Konqueror (Linux)
   • IceWeasel (Linux)
6. High-performance 3D rendering with no hardware requirements
7. File formats (see also file formats section within Jmol Wiki):
   • CIF/mmCIF - Crystallographic Information File and Macromolecular Crystallographic Information File, the standards from the International Union of Crystallography
   • CML - Chemical Markup Language
   • CSF - Fujitsu CAChe chemical structure, now Fujitsu Sygress
   • CTFile - Elsevier MDL chemical table
   • GAMESS - General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System output, Gordon Research Group, Iowa State University
   • Gaussian 94/98/03 output - Gaussian, Inc.
   • Ghemical
   • HIN - HyperChem from Hypercube, Inc.
   • Jaguar - Schrodinger, LLC
   • MM1GP - Ghemical molecular mechanics
   • MOL - Elsevier MDL structure
   • MOLPRO - Molpro output
   • MOPAC - MOPAC 93/97/2002 output (public domain) - MOPAC 2007 (v.7.101) graphf output (.mgf files) (public domain)
   • NWCHEM - NWChem output, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
   • odydata - Odyssey data, WaveFunction, Inc.
   • PDB - Protein Data Bank, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics
   • QOUT - Q-Chem, Inc.
   • SDF - Elsevier MDL structure
   • SHELX - Structural Chemistry Department, University of Göttingen (Germany)
   • SMOL - Spartan data, Wavefunction, Inc.
   • spinput - Spartan data, Wavefunction, Inc.
   • xodydata - Odyssey XML data, WaveFunction, Inc.
   • XYZ - Minnesota Supercomputer Institute XMol file
   • XYZ+vib - XYZ format files with added vibrational vector information
   • XYZ-FAH - Folding@home XYZ file
8. Animations
9. Vibrations
10. Basic support for unit cell and symmetry operations
11. Schematic shapes for secondary structures in biomolecules
12. Measurements:
    • Distance
    • Angle
    • Torsion angle
13. Support for RasMol/Chime scripting language
14. JavaScript support library
15. Exports to .jpg, .png, .ppm, .pdf, and PovRay