Rasmol Alternatives

Rasmol is described as 'RasMol is a computer program written for molecular graphics visualization intended and used primarily for the depiction and exploration of biological macromolecule structures, such as those found in the Protein Data Bank' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Rasmol for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Rasmol alternative is PyMOL. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Avogadro or Calistry.org. Other great apps like Rasmol are UGENE, Jmol, UCSF Chimera and QuteMol.

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  1. PyMOL icon
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    PyMOL is a powerful and comprehensive molecular visualization product for rendering and animating 3D molecular structures.

    11 PyMOL alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • PyMOL is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Rasmol.

    • PyMOL is the most popular Open Source & commercial alternative to Rasmol.

    • PyMOL is Paid and Open SourceRasmol is Free and Open Source
  2. Avogadro icon
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    Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.

    22 Avogadro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Avogadro is the most popular free alternative to Rasmol.

    • Avogadro is Free and Open SourceRasmol is also Free and Open Source
  3. Calistry.org icon
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    Calistry is an online Chemistry Calculator. Till date Calistry contains 70+ calculators in the field of Chemistry. Everything in the website is entirely free to use. Other than calculators, Calistry also provides online molecular viewers that visualizes coordinate file of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
     
    • Calistry.org is the most popular Web-based & Android alternative to Rasmol.

    • Calistry.org is Free and ProprietaryRasmol is Free and Open Source
  4. UGENE icon
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    UGENE is free open-source cross-platform bioinformatics software.

    25 UGENE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Jmol icon
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    Jmol is a free, open source molecule viewer for students, educators, and researchers in chemistry and biochemistry. It is cross-platform, running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. UCSF Chimera icon
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    UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. QuteMol icon
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    QuteMol is an open source (GPL), interactive, high quality molecular visualization system. QuteMol exploits the current GPU capabilites through OpenGL shaders to offers an array of innovative visual effects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. CellWalk icon
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    Explore detailed 3D cell biology down to the molecular level, or tour life’s molecular machines. CellWalk is a beautiful new way for students to learn biology.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • visionOS
     
    • CellWalk is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Rasmol.

    • CellWalk is Freemium and ProprietaryRasmol is Free and Open Source
  9. Vipster icon
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    Vipster is a powerful and versatile tool for pre- and post-processing of periodic chemical structures. It's designed from the ground up with periodic simulations in mind.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Vipster is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Rasmol.

    • Vipster is Free and Open SourceRasmol is also Free and Open Source
    • Vipster is Privacy focusedRasmol is not according to our users
  10. RasTop icon
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    RasTop is a molecular visualization software adapted from the program RasMol, which was initially developed by Roger Sayle. RasTop is particularly adapted for educational purposes and for the rapid analysis of macromolecules at the bench.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
     
  11. VESTA icon
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    VESTA is a 3D visualization program for structural models, volumetric data such as electron/nuclear densities, and crystal morphologies.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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