Preview molecules on your Mac

iMol is a helpful, free program only available for Mac, that is part of the category Science & Education.

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Since the program has been added to our selection of software and apps in 2007, it has obtained 3,918 downloads, and last week it gained 0 downloads.

This program is available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and former versions, and you can get it only in English. The current version of the program is 0.40 and its last update was on 5/25/2007.

About the download, iMol is a slick software that requires less storage space than many software in the category Science & Education. It’s very heavily used in Lebanon.

iMol is a free molecular visualization application for Mac OS X operating system. The program is an indispensable tool for chemists and molecular biologists.

iMol allows loading molecules using several file formats: PDB, XYZ, MOL2, HIN, CAR, ALC, BIO. The molecules can be saved as PDB, XYZ or BIO files.

The BIO file stores all view and rendering settings (e. g. colors, lighting, orientation of molecules). iMol can easily handle both small and large molecules, it can load multiple molecules, move and rotate them independently.