Software for protein structure visualization

This list of software for protein structure visualization is a compilation of bioinformatics software used to view protein structures. Such tools are commonly used in molecular biology, and bioinformatics.

NAME Link Author
BioBlender BioBlender official web site SciVis team
Visual_Molecular_Dynamics VMD official website
Jmol Jmol official web site Jmol development team
Geneious Pro (implemented Jmol viewer as part of an all-in-one sequence analysis software package) Geneious homepage Geneious development team
PyMOL PyMOL Wiki Warren Lyford DeLano
RasMol Official website Roger Sayle
UCSF Chimera Official website UCSF RBVI
STING STAR STING
Friend [1] Valentin Ilyin
VisProt3DS (3D Stereoscopic view: anaglyth, side by side, hardware) Official website Nick Vtyurin
Polyview-3D (Web-based high resolution static views and animations using Pymol or Rasmol) Official website Aleksey Porollo & Jarek Meller

See also