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Jmol

Introduction

Jmol is a simple molecular visualization program. It can read many file formats and can write various formats. Animations of normal modes and simulations are implemented. Jmol is an OpenScience Java application. The Jmol Home Page.

Version

Several versions are available at OSC. Search for jmol in this list:

module avail

Availability

Jmol is available on the BALE and Glenn Clusters. However, Jmol is best executed locally. Thus, we recommend downloading the latest version from http://jmol.sourceforge.net/download/. The installation process is trivial.

Usage

Open Science Project. No license agreement.

Location

The root of the Jmol directory tree is /usr/local/jmol

Execution

Jmol usage is controlled via modules. Load one of the Jmol modulefiles at the command line, in your shell initialization script, or in your batch scripts, for example:

module load jmol

Documentation

General documentation is available at the Jmol Home Page and in the doc subdirectory.