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.
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- Molecules Screenshot 1
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- Molecules Screenshot 2
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- Molecules Screenshot 3
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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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.
[...] 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 [...]
To be perfectly honest, while this app is cool, it’s not very useful w/o a ‘ribbon’ setting.