Molecular Viewer

RasMol is a molecular viewer program used for visualizing proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. The program displays molecules and teaches about bonding by reading in molecular co-ordinate files and interactively displays the molecule on the screen in a variety of representations and colour schemes. It is launched in Model ChemLab from the Chemical Properties Dialog Box .

RasMol was developed at the University of Edinburgh's Biocomputing Research Unit and the BioMolecular Structure Department, Glaxo Research and Development, Greenford, U.K.

More information is available from the RasMol Help

and from the RasMol Home Page:

http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/.