[Jmol-users] IUCr journals using Jmol

[Brian M. <bm...@iu...>]

Hello list

The IUCr journals web site Crystallography Journals Online
(http://journals.iucr.org) has implemented a Jmol plug-in
visualization for each CIF supporting a crystal structure
reported in any of its journals. From the table of contents
of any issue (e.g. Acta Crystallographica Section C, January
2007: http://journals.iucr.org/c/issues/2007/01/00/issconts.html)
click on any "3-d view" button to bring up a page with a Jmol
applet per structure reported in the article. Note that this
second page also has a "3-d view" button, which allows the
user to download and visualize the data block in an external
helper application of his or her own choice. [This helper
could itself be Jmol, if desired - we'll add that suggestion
to the documentation in the near future. Other typical programs
used by readers are RasMol and the CCDC's Mercury.]

We have been keen to introduce this feature for some time, and
have earlier considered Chime and other applications. However,
the recent extensions of Jmol to support detailed crystallographic
views and polyhedra have made it the natural candidate of choice,
and we're happy to introduce this functionality to the
crystallographic community.

In practice, biological macromolecular structures aren't handled
because the journals just provide pointers in these cases to
PDB entries.

Congratulations to all involved with Jmol for producing such a
valuable tool.

Brian
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International Union of Crystallography            e-mail:  bm...@iu...
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