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Qmol is a program for viewing molecular structures and animating molecular trajectories. Find QMOL at: http://www.ccl.net/cca/software/MS-WIN95-NT/qmol/index.shtml

PyMOL is a molecular graphics system with an embedded Python interpreter designed for real-time visualization and rapid generation of high-quality molecular graphics images and animations. Find PyMOL at: http://pymol.sourceforge.net/

MOLMOL is a molecular graphics program for displaying, analyzing, and manipulating the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules, with special emphasis on the study of protein or DNA structures determined by NMR. Find MOLMOL at: http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/wuthrich/software/molmol/

gOpenMol is the graphical interface into the OpenMol set of computational chemistry programs Find gOpenMol at: http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/g0penMol

Gdis is a GTK based program for the display of molecules. Find Gdis at: http://gdis.seul.org

Cn3D is a helper application for your web browser that allows you to view 3-dimensional structures from NCBI’s Entrez retrieval service. Find Cn3D at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3d.shtml

a free molecule viewer for LINUX and other UNIX platforms Find KMovisto at: http://members.tripod.de/PageOfMH/index.html

RasMol is a program for molecular graphics visualisation originally developed by Roger Sayle. Find OpenRasMol at: http://www.OpenRasMol.org/

XDrawChem is a two-dimensional molecule drawing program for Unix operating systems. Find XDrawChem at: http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/

Chemtool is a program for drawing organic molecules easily and store them as an Postscript, X-Bitmap, LaTeX and XFig file. Find Chemtool at: http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/~martin/chemtool/