3dmol/3Dmol.js

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3Dmol.js is an object-oriented, WebGL-accelerated JavaScript library for interactive molecular visualization in web browsers. It supports many molecular file formats, surface computation, multiple rendering styles, and can be used as a hosted viewer, embeddable viewer, or programmable component.

Use cases

• visualize protein structures from the PDB in a web page
• embed an interactive 3D molecular viewer in a website
• render molecular surfaces and styles in a web application
• display molecular structures in Jupyter notebooks
• build a chemistry teaching tool with interactive 3D structures
• parse and render pdb, sdf, mol2, xyz, cif files in the browser

When to choose

• you need browser-based, GPU-accelerated molecular rendering without plugins
• you want an embeddable viewer with minimal setup (two lines of HTML)
• you need programmatic control over molecular styling, surfaces, and interactivity via a JavaScript API

When to avoid

• you need offline desktop molecular modeling or simulation rather than visualization
• you require non-WebGL environments or server-side rendering
• you need full molecular dynamics or quantum chemistry computation capabilities

Facets

library · maturity active

graphics data-visualization sdk bioinformatics web-development data-visualization browser molecular-graphics webgl molecular-visualization pdb computational-biology jupyter-notebooks computational-chemistry web-server javascript

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