With the rise of tablets, truly portable molecular graphics are now available for wide use by scientists to share structural information in real time at a reasonable cost. We have surveyed the existing software available on Apple iPads and on Android tablets in order to make a recommendation to potential users, primarily based on the product features. Among 12 apps, iMolview (available on both platforms) stands out to be our choice, with PyMOL app (iOS) a close alternative and RCSB PDB Mobile viewer/NDKmol (both platforms) offering some uniquely useful functions. Finally, we include a tutorial on how to get started using iMolview to do some simple visualization in 10 min. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Yiu, C. P. B., & Chen, Y. W. (2014). High-quality macromolecular graphics on mobile devices: A quick starter’s guide. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1091, 343–352. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-691-7_24
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