Software for showing crystal packing

From: Yuri Pompeu


Hello everyone,
Whats a "good" software for showing crystal packing and unit cell, axes , etc...
I know pymol and coot will do it but would love to hear other possibilities/ideas.
Cheers,

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From: Roger Rowlett

Swiss PDB viewer will do this. Also XPAND will fill a unit cell with a symmetry generated PDB.

Roger Rowlett

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From: Takanori Nakane


Dear Yuri,

Do you know "supercell" script for Pymol?
http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Supercell
It is more convenient than standard [Action]-[Generate]-[Symmetry Mates]
command in Pymol.

If you want programs other than Pymol, CueMol can also do it.
http://cuemol.sourceforge.jp/en/

If you want to put it on Web pages, you can use Jmol.
GLmol, a WebGL/Javascript based viewer I am developing, can
also show packing and unit cell if symmetry operations are
defined in REMARK record.
http://webglmol.sourceforge.jp/index-en.html

Takanori Nakane

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From: Eleanor Dodson


Beware: Nothing works very well if you have more than 1 molecule and they are distant from each other..

I usually start from PISA which will try to make a sensible assembly, then start from there..

Eleanor

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From: Eric Pettersen

On Dec 3, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Yuri Pompeu wrote:

Chimera's Unit Cell tool can do this.

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/unitcell/unitcell.html

--Eric