Teaching molecular structure using Jmol
Robert M. Hanson
Department of Chemistry, St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057
August 19, 2009
238th ACS National Meeting
Washington, DC
The Jmol Project
• Jmol molecular visualization project• Open-source• Jmol.sourceforge.net• Active user/developer community
about 400 “users”
about 150 “developers”
collectively 23,000 list messages
The Jmol Community
• Professional graphics designers• Professional developers• Professors, graduate students, undergraduates
The Jmol Community
• Generally one of three focal points:
– Research– Publishing– Education
The Jmol Community
• Generally one of three focal points:
– Research• Computational chemistry visualization• Structural biology• Electron microscopy/X-ray crystallography
– Publishing– Education
JR Schmidt, U. Wisconsin “WebMO” http://www.webmo.net/
Peter Rose, RCSB http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/jmol.do?structureId=1LDN
Peter Rose, RCSB http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/jmol.do?structureId=1LDN
Patrick Carroll, U. Penn. http://macxray.chem.upenn.edu/
The Jmol Community
• Generally one of three focal points:
– Research– Publishing
• Interactive website content• Professional graphics design• Database front ends
– Education
Frieda Reichsman, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/media/10.1021/cb600303y/figure2.htm
Tim Driscoll MolVis http://molvis.sdsc.edu/fgij/fg.htm?mol=1ldn
Alan Hewat, http://icsd.fiz-karlsruhe.de/icsd/
Alan Hewat, http://icsd.fiz-karlsruhe.de/icsd/
The Jmol Community
• Generally one of three focal points:
– Research– Publishing– Education
• High School• General chemistry• Organic chemistry• Biochemistry• Inorganic chemistry• Computational chemistry
The Molecular Workbench
The Molecular Workbench
Charles Xie, Concord Consortium http://mw.concord.org/modeler/
Molecular Symmetry
Dean Johnston, Otterbein College, http://symmetry.otterbein.edu/
Bob Hanson, http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/explore.htm
Bob Hanson, http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/explore.htm
Bob Hanson, http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/explore.htm
Bob Hanson, http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/explore.htm
CoolMolecules
Bob Hanson, http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/mo/struc/explore.htm
Mike McGuan Melanie Casavant
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