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Effective use of RasMol requires typing commands from RasMol's extensive command language. People who use RasMol infrequently are generally unable to remember the commands, severely limiting what they can see. Even if you know the command language well, certain complex visualization tasks require so many commands that few if any users would ever accomplish them. An example of such a task is visualization of all the non-covalent interactions with a designated moiety. Molecular visualization software that does not require learning a complex command language has been developed to make powerful visualization accessible to a wider range of users. Examples include [[FirstGlance in Jmol]] and [[Protein Explorer]], which have extensive automatically-displayed context sensitive help, built-in color keys, and also include routines to accomplish complex visualization tasks (such as visualization of non-covalent bonds to a designated moiety, including protein [[Cation-pi interactions|cation-pi orbital]] interactions) with just a few clicks of the mouse. | Effective use of RasMol requires typing commands from RasMol's extensive command language. People who use RasMol infrequently are generally unable to remember the commands, severely limiting what they can see. Even if you know the command language well, certain complex visualization tasks require so many commands that few if any users would ever accomplish them. An example of such a task is visualization of all the non-covalent interactions with a designated moiety. Molecular visualization software that does not require learning a complex command language has been developed to make powerful visualization accessible to a wider range of users. Examples include [[FirstGlance in Jmol]] and [[Protein Explorer]], which have extensive automatically-displayed context sensitive help, built-in color keys, and also include routines to accomplish complex visualization tasks (such as visualization of non-covalent bonds to a designated moiety, including protein [[Cation-pi interactions|cation-pi orbital]] interactions) with just a few clicks of the mouse. | ||
Other software packages offer visualization capabilities not available in RasMol. Jmol, for example, has a higher-quality rendering mode, translucent rendering, surface, molecular orbital and cavity visualization, biological units, crystal symmetry operations (including visualization of crystal contacts and the unit cell), arbitrary objects such as arrows and planes, and true slabbing with slab rotation. | Other software packages offer visualization capabilities not available in RasMol. Jmol, for example, has a higher-quality rendering mode, translucent rendering, automated animation of multiple models, surface, molecular orbital and cavity visualization, biological units, crystal symmetry operations (including visualization of crystal contacts and the unit cell), arbitrary objects such as arrows and planes, and true slabbing with slab rotation. | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||