Feb
25
2009

Molecules on the go – iPhone app.

How many times have you talked to someone at a conference, or in a meeting and tried to explain to him, while hand waiving or napkin drawing, that cool structural feature of your protein? Well, with “Molecules” the hand waving can stop and the finger waving begins.

“Molecules” is an iPhone / iPod-touch application, open source and freely available, in which you can display 3D structures of your favorite biological or chemical molecules, and play around with them at the tips of your fingers. Imagine – carrying the PDB on your phone.

You can download “Molecules” from the iPhone App store. Although it does not have such a high rating, we think it’s very cool, and will get better. What’s your impression from the app? Know any other cool iPhone/iPod-touch apps?

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  • http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com Brad Larson

    I’m glad that you like it. Unfortunately, I’ve neglected this application lately in favor of a newer project, but will get back to this after the other one’s released. I have some plans for expanded capabilities (ribbon visualization, small molecule databases, etc.) and intend to see those through.

    As far as the low ratings, that’s an unfortunate side effect of Apple’s decision to prompt users to rate applications on deletion. Because it’s free, many people download it just to try it and when they don’t understand what it does they delete it and give it a one star rating. All the four- and five-star reviews in the store itself can’t offset that. Oh, well.

  • http://mlearning.edublogs.org/2009/06/02/apple-mobile-learning-roadshow/ Apple Mobile Learning Roadshow | Mobile Learning

    [...] rather than standalone, and it was a good chance to play with a few new ones (such as this Molecular Modelling app) that I haven’t seen [...]

  • Casey

    To be perfectly honest, while this app is cool, it’s not very useful w/o a ‘ribbon’ setting.

  • http://phdonlinedegree.com/100-iphone-apps-that-are-awesome-for-homeschoolers/ PhD Online Degree » 100 iPhone Apps that Are Awesome for Homeschoolers

    [...] science lessons using Molecules as a viable visual aid that illustrates the very building blocks of the [...]

  • Mike

    Can you list other sources for molecules to download (other than PDB)? Is there a soucre for small molecules?

  • James

    I think it would be awesome if you could view the molecular structure of other things than just proteins, like actual items…. For example the structure of my sons ADHD medicine Vyvansene, and other things like physical objects……

  • http://rosettadesigngroup.com/blog Nir London

    Well, essentially you can as long as you can produce a 3D coordinates file (PDB) for your ‘object’, I’m pretty sure one exists for Vyvansene. As for other objects, there are better tools to visualize those… (Google sketch I think ?)

  • Mpd0814

    Is there going to be an Android version of this software

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