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I'm looking for some software for modeling molecular structures.

I don't need one of those scientific programs that do actual quantum calculations, just one for making pretty 3D pictures and gif animations useful for looking at the overall structure and stereochemistry of the molecule. The program should be geared towards chemistry so it should 'know' the basic stuff about bond angles, bond lengths, aromaticity and conjugation with enough accuracy to make models that look about right and, when necessary, allow those properties to be input manually.

Anyone know of anything good for this out there?

Also, pic related. I see gifs like this all over wikipedia...does anyone know what program is used to make these? This is a gif of a spacefilling model, but I also want ball-and-stick models, which are also used extensively on wikipedia but I have no idea what program people use to make these.

>> No.3627388

>>3627348
if you use linux theres loads of free apps that do chemical formulas, models etc

>> No.3627399

visual python? you can learn it in like a week to have some pretty cool things going

>> No.3627420

>>3627399
I don't want to make pictures of snakes, I want to make pictures of molecules and shit? do you read. Fuck, who even makes a herpetologist visualization tool?

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NanoEngineer ships with QuteMolX. Have a picture.

However you can't make a .gif with QutemolX. Not automatically.

>> No.3627434

>>3627420
as i said, download ubuntu (easy to do alongside windows) theres loads of decent free apps that let you do exactly what you are looking for

>> No.3627451

>>3627420
not op, fyi

thanks for the suggestions so far, I'll look in to the linux thing if I can get a vm of it going

>> No.3627467

>>3627451
>Linux virtual machine on a windows host
You are doing it so wrong.

>> No.3627474

>>3627467
I haven't done anything yet, but thanks for your help anyways.

>> No.3627571

For chemistry chemdraw is your best bet.

>> No.3627579

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>>3627579

>> No.3627730

>>3627616
its called spam