3Dmol.js is an object-oriented, webGL based JavaScript library for online molecular visualization - No Java required!

Since 3Dmol.js is licensed under the permissive BSD open-source license, you are free to use it in any project, as long the code is properly acknowledged and cited.

With 3Dmol.js, you can add beautifully rendered molecular visualizations to your web applications. Features include:

• support for pdb, sdf, mol2, xyz, and cube formats
• parallelized molecular surface computation
• sphere, stick, line, cross, cartoon, and surface styles
• atom property based selection and styling
• labels
• clickable interactivity with molecular data
• geometric shapes including spheres and arrows

See the documentation to learn how to use 3Dmol.js as a hosted viewer, embeddable viewer, or as a component of a larger application.

We support the use of both PDB queries as well as PDB files.

First you simply create the viewer with a div's id.

var viewer = $3Dmol.createViewer($("#div"));

Then you can download a protein data bank model (here pdb:1MO8) and display it with the styling of your choosing.

$3Dmol.download("pdb:1MO8",viewer,{multimodel:true, frames:true},function(){
	viewer.setStyle({}, {cartoon:{color:"spectrum"}});
	viewer.render();
});

We also support the use of surfaces that are asynchronously loaded and support different color schemes

viewer.addSurface($3Dmol.SurfaceType.VDW, {
    opacity:0.85,
    voldata: new $3Dmol.VolumeData(volumedata, "cube"),
    volscheme: new $3Dmol.Gradient.ROYGB(range[1],range[0])
},{});

The use of different shapes and styles is supported.

viewer.addCylinder({start:{x:0.0,y:2.0,z:0.0},
    end:{x:0.0,y:10.0,z:0.0},
    radius:0.5,
    fromCap:false,
    toCap:true,
    color:'teal'});
viewer.addCylinder({start:{x:15.0,y:0.0,z:0.0},
    end:{x:20.0,y:0.0,z:0.0},
    radius:1.0,
    color:'black',
    fromCap:false,
    toCap:false});

Please check out our documentation at 3dmol.js. We have tutorials, as well as the stable release of the platform.

Please address any questions or concerns to [email protected]. You may also submit an issue on github.

If you use 3Dmol.js, please cite our Bioinformatics paper.

3DMol.js is funded through R01GM108340 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences or the National Institutes of Health.