Dear People,
I was wondering if people could recommend a simple molecular viewing
package written in python. I'm working in Theoretical chemistry and I'm
not after an all-singing dancing molecular rendering package(pymol does
that rather well) but a program which reads XYZ files and displays
simple structures which can be rotated in 3D
Thanks
Andy 3 3317
Andy Cheesman <An***********@ bristol.ac.ukwr ites:
>Dear People,
>I was wondering if people could recommend a simple molecular viewing package written in python. I'm working in Theoretical chemistry and I'm not after an all-singing dancing molecular rendering package(pymol does that rather well) but a program which reads XYZ files and displays simple structures which can be rotated in 3D
>Thanks
>Andy
Check out http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/. Unlike PyMol, all of the
molecular data is accesible from Python. It still might be too much
of an all-singing dancing molecular rendering package for you though.
Greg Couch
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
Andy Cheesman wrote:
Dear People,
I was wondering if people could recommend a simple molecular viewing
package written in python. I'm working in Theoretical chemistry and I'm
not after an all-singing dancing molecular rendering package(pymol does
that rather well) but a program which reads XYZ files and displays
simple structures which can be rotated in 3D
You could use VPython if you know how to convert XYZ files to ball and
stick locations to cartesian coordinates.
On Aug 29, 8:31 am, Andy Cheesman <Andy.chees...@ bristol.ac.ukwr ote:
Dear People,
I was wondering if people could recommend a simple molecular viewing
package written in python. I'm working in Theoretical chemistry and I'm
not after an all-singing dancing molecular rendering package(pymol does
that rather well) but a program which reads XYZ files and displays
simple structures which can be rotated in 3D
Thanks
Andy
slut is an OpenGL wrapper that I found to be very intuitive to use,
and comes with some simple "moving ball" animations, but the
animations also can be panned, zoomed, and rotated. In your case, you
wouldn't need to do the animation, just plot the balls in 3D and then
pan and zoom to your heart's content.
Here is a simple program that plots a series of points on a sphere:
from slut import *
# points on a sphere
data = [
(1.0, 0.0, 0.0),
(0.945, 0.0, -0.325),
(0.789, 0.0, -0.613),
(0.547, 0.0, -0.836),
(0.246, 0.0, -0.968),
(-0.083, 0.0, -0.997),
(-0.402, 0.0, -0.916),
(-0.677, 0.0, -0.735),
....
(-0.078, 0.027, 0.997),
(0.232, -0.080, 0.968),
(0.517, -0.177, 0.836),
(0.746, -0.256, 0.613),
(0.895, -0.307, 0.325),
(0.945, -0.325, 0.0) ]
from slut import *
class SphereViewer(Wo rld):
def onSetup(self):
self.width = 400
self.height = 400
self.name = "Points on a Sphere"
def onDraw(self):
# draw translucent sphere
glColor4f(0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.5)
sphere(0, 0, 0, 1.0)
glColor4f(0.3, 0.3, 0.4, 1.0)
# plot points on surface
glPointSize(4)
for d in data:
point(*d)
# connect points with path
glLineWidth(1.5 )
lastd = data[-1]
for d in data:
line( *(lastd + d) )
lastd = d
viewer = SphereViewer()
viewer.run()
And here is a short Wink video showing me working with a simplified
version of this sphere: http://www.geocities.com/ptmcg/python/sphere1.htm.
If you have your molecules' 3D coordinates, you should be able to just
plot them, and then use slut to view the molecule.
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