Re: Help out a Newbie: running Molmol
Re: Help out a Newbie: running Molmol
- Subject: Re: Help out a Newbie: running Molmol
- From: James Owen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 06:02:09 +0000
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 01:44 am,
email@hidden wrote:
Message: 5
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:44:31 -0500
Subject: Help out a Newbie: running Molmol
From: email@hidden
To: email@hidden
Good morning everyone:
I'm a non-traditional Chemistry student with zero free time on my
hands. I upgraded to OS X over the xmas break, and now I can't run
ISIS/Draw in OS X. It wasn't a stellar program anyway.
I'd LOVE to run molmol (which I've downloaded), but I know diddly and
squat about Unix. What I know about unix I learned a dozen years ago
when running NMR analysis, and that was pretty much all specialized
programming.
---
Rachel
(all I want is to start drawing my reaction mechanisms again!!!)
--__--__
Rachel,
Go to
http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/molmol/molmol_on_fink.html
and http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/xtalfink_html.html
where several options are discussed. Do you have fink? This is probably
the easy way to install things. http://fink.sourceforge.net/
You can also use rasmol, pymol, and others, depending upon what you
need. All these run under X windows, so you will need to have that
installed too.
If you want to got the commerical route, a program called CrystalMaker
has recently been released in a native OS X version. Macworld had a
review recently, seemed to like it.
I use rasmol which is simple but works nicely, and molmol for when I
want to render structures for pretty pictures - you can output as
POVray format (which is also available for OS X).
Also try vmd, which doesn't require X windows, but I have not found it
so user-friendly.
www.vmd.org I think.
Does that help?
James
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