I forward a message about JMol (Java molecular viewer).

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Dear all,

with some delay (due to a rather interesting drug design course last
week), I am proud to announce the release v7 of Jmol.

Changes since v6

A much faster implementation of the rebonding algorithm is now used.
VASP and Gaussian 03 readers were added. Reading of Jaguar 4.2.77,
ABINIT, and AcesII files was fixed.

Many thanx to the users and the developers for noticing and fixing
these issues.

About Jmol

Jmol is a Java molecular viewer for three-dimensional chemical
structures, both molecular and condensed. Features include reading a
variety of file types and output from quantum chemistry programs.
Multi-frame files can be animated and normal modes displayed as
calculated with quantum programs. Jmol supports Chime and Rasmol
scripts, and the applet can be addressed with JavaScript. The
application runs on J2SE 1.4 systems, but the applet runs even on
old Java 1.1 systems, such as the Netscape 4.5/4.7 browsers.

More information about the project can be found at the website,
which features examples of the applet and a few screenshots of the
application:

http://jmol.sf.net/

Jmol is OpenSource and licensed with the GNU LGPL license.

The Future

Work is undergoing to hava Jmol support more file types, including
output of programs which is divided over several files. In addition,
a true from-scratch 3D engine is being written that will allow for
even more astoundishing graphics including molecular surfaces.

kind regards,

Egon Willighagen