chemtool, easychem and gchempaint are in the Wheezy repos.
See also the following posts for ISISDraw, MarvinSketch and BKChem.
Chemtool
I didn't get along with this at all. I managed to import a few structures from the templates, but e.g. the clean molecule function didn't actually work, although it's there. Selecting, deleting etc. were all a bit non-intuitive (to me -- this is obviously very subjective)
Easychem
I can't find any templates. Drawing becomes a bit tedious since I didn't find an easy way of converting an existing bond from e.g. single to double.
gChemPaint
It's pretty straightforward to use and I like it the best of the three. However, it's still very sparse even compared to e.g. bkchem. It certainly works if you quickly need to make a simple structure. There's no clean function.
Showing posts with label molecules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label molecules. Show all posts
18 February 2014
555. Very Briefly: Drawing molecules on linux: bkchem
I can't evaluate drawing programs on linux without giving bkchem a look. In fact, up till now this has been my preferred drawing application on linux, in particular since it uses .svg as it's native file format i.e. it's very easy to post-process drawing and turn them into proper .eps files for inclusion in latex documents.
bkchem is in the debian repos:
It's a very basic program, although looking through the options it isn't too feature sparse either.
However, there's one important feature that ISISDraw and MarvinSketch have that I can't find in bkchem: it's lacking a function to clean molecules i.e. to make them look nice.
bkchem is in the debian repos:
sudo apt-get install bkchem
It's a very basic program, although looking through the options it isn't too feature sparse either.
However, there's one important feature that ISISDraw and MarvinSketch have that I can't find in bkchem: it's lacking a function to clean molecules i.e. to make them look nice.
554. Briefly: Drawing molecules on linux: Marvinsketch
I don't remember how I installed this, but marvinsketch is by far the fanciest molecular drawing application on linux. It's written in java, which means that it runs natively (well, as natively as something like java can run).
Note: it's free for academia only and you will need to register.
To get MarvinBeans, go to https://www.chemaxon.com/ and register as an academic. Then go to http://www.chemaxon.com/download/marvin-suite/ and download the 64 bit linux installer with jre.
Presumable you can install it by doing
in the download directory.
Once it's installed create a file called ~/.local/share/applications/marvinsketch.desktop:
You should now be able to find it in GNOME 3.
There are a lot of similarities between ISISDraw and MarvinSketch -- and that's a good thing since it allows people like myself to draw molecules quickly without thinking too much about it.
Note: it's free for academia only and you will need to register.
To get MarvinBeans, go to https://www.chemaxon.com/ and register as an academic. Then go to http://www.chemaxon.com/download/marvin-suite/ and download the 64 bit linux installer with jre.
Presumable you can install it by doing
sh marvinbeans-6.1.0-linux_with_jre64.sh
in the download directory.
Once it's installed create a file called ~/.local/share/applications/marvinsketch.desktop:
[Desktop Entry] Name=MarvinSketch GenericName=MarvinSketch Comment=Software for drawing molecules Exec=sh /home/me/ChemAxon/MarvinBeans/MarvinSketch Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Science Version=6.1
You should now be able to find it in GNOME 3.
There are a lot of similarities between ISISDraw and MarvinSketch -- and that's a good thing since it allows people like myself to draw molecules quickly without thinking too much about it.
A Blank slate |
Running Chem Inspector |
It didn't like my wedges |
I turned the structure into 3D and rotated it |
Elemental analysis |
553. Briefly: Drawing molecules on Debian Wheezy: ISISDraw under wine (very briefly)
I'm cheating here: this isn't a program for linux. Instead we're running a windows program under wine, which is not ideal. On the other hand, it's so easy to do that it's worth exploring as an option to 'pure' linux offerings.
I'll be posting about native linux offerings later.
Either way, I've kept a copy of ISISDraw 2.5 around since the early 2000s. Luckily, other people are mirroring the installation file for it as well. See e.g. http://fc.smcdsb.on.ca/~rszerminski/addl_files_for_web/DRAW24.EXE for ISISDraw 2.4
You'll need to install wine:i386 and for that you'll need to enable multiarch if you're on amd64:
As always, if you have problems with e.g. weird fonts, use winetricks to install at least corefonts, or ideally allfonts:
Then run ISISDraw:
ISISDraw has a lot of options, including templates and journal settings.
There's a bug under wine: to get the menus for the buttons on the left side to show up, click on the button on the left panel, and then move the mouse left while still holding the button down.
ISISDraw is not going to blow you away, but it's free and it works under wine.
I'll be posting about native linux offerings later.
Either way, I've kept a copy of ISISDraw 2.5 around since the early 2000s. Luckily, other people are mirroring the installation file for it as well. See e.g. http://fc.smcdsb.on.ca/~rszerminski/addl_files_for_web/DRAW24.EXE for ISISDraw 2.4
You'll need to install wine:i386 and for that you'll need to enable multiarch if you're on amd64:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine:i386 wget http://fc.smcdsb.on.ca/~rszerminski/addl_files_for_web/DRAW24.EXE wine DRAW24.EXE
As always, if you have problems with e.g. weird fonts, use winetricks to install at least corefonts, or ideally allfonts:
wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks sudo mv winetricks /usr/bin/winetricks chmod +x /usr/bin/winetricks winetricks allfonts
Then run ISISDraw:
A blank slate |
Chem Inspector |
To get the menus to work, click and while still holding the left button down move right |
01 March 2012
87. Polyoxometalate Molecules - povray images
Here's a bunch of povray generated figures of polyoxometalates. I've spent too much time on them not to share them. You may use them freely in posters, websites or talks.
Leave a comment if you want the original POV files.
alpha-Mo8 |
alpha-Mo8 -- octamolybdate |
alpha Mo8 -- octamolybdate |
beta-Mo8 -- octamolybdate |
beta-Mo8 -- octamolybdate |
Hexamolybdate -- Mo6O19 |
Decaniobate -- [Nb10O28]6- |
Decaniobate -- [Nb10O28]6- |
Eicosaniobate -- dodecaniobate --[Nb20O54] |
Eicosaniobate -- dodecaniobate --[Nb20O54] |
Hexaniobate -- lindqvist ion -- [Nb6O19]8- |
Hexaniobate -- lindqvist ion -- [Nb6O19]8- |
Peroxo- hexaniobate --[Nb6O13(O2)6]8- |
Para-Mo7 -- para hepta molybdate |
Para-Mo7 -- para hepta molybdate |
Para-W7 -- para hepta tungstate |
Para-W7 -- para hepta tungstate |
Tetrasiliconiobate -- Si4Nb16 |
Tetrasiliconiobate -- Si4Nb16 |
Siliconiobate -- SiNb12 -- keggin ion |
Siliconiobate -- SiNb12 -- keggin ion |
Hexatantalate - [Ta6O19]8- |
Superlindqvist -- [Ti12Nb6O44]10- |
Superlindqvist -- [Ti12Nb6O44]10- |
[Ti2Nb8O28]8- -- dititanoniobate |
[Ti2Nb8O28]8- -- dititanoniobate |
[TiNb9O28]7- -- monotitanoniobate |
[TiNb9O28]7- -- monotitanoniobate |
W10 - decatungstate |
W10 - decatungstate |
W12 -- dodecatungstate |
W12 -- dodecatungstate |
W12 -- dodecatungstate |
Hexamolybdate -- lindqvist ion -- [Mo6O19]8- |
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