Python molecular viewer

[Greg Couch]

Andy Cheesman <Andy.cheesman at bristol.ac.uk> writes:

>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