CH5M3D

This program is a web interface that has been developed to allow users to create and visualize 3-dimensional drawings of simple molecules without requiring users to download additional software. In addition to creating structures, users can also load existing XYZ formatted files (such as those generated by Open Babel) containing 3-dimensional coordinates.

The only files necessary to use this program are the HTML page (index.html), the css stylesheet (ch5m3d.css), and the file containing the javascript code (ch5m3d.js). Additional files included in the ZIP archive include documentation web pages, sample molecular coordinates as .xyz files, and the GNU Public License.

The only requirment to run this program is a web browser capable of running HTML5 code. This program will NOT run using the version 8 or lower of Microsoft Internet Explorer. While the web pages can be read directly as files using a web browser, there appears to be a significant performance benefit to running this on a web server. All references are given as relative links, so these files can be placed anywhere in web server's directory path as long as the tree structure is maintained. This program has not been optimized for speed and is not intended to be used for large molecules. The geometry optimization routine is very crude, and the charge calculations are not intended to produce highly accurate results.

This is version 1.2.5 of this program. No new features have been added, but a few bugs have been fixed.

This program is released under the GNU General Public License. For more information, you may contact the author at:

Dr. Clarke Earley, Kent State University at Stark, email: cearley@kent.edu