gMol provides manipulate 3-dimensional models. It is a desktop app to display and animate molecular models. To return to this page, select Help/gMol from the menu bar. Use the File/Open menu above to select a PDB or SDF file to display. Various styles of atom and bond drawing are available, including "cartoon" drawings for proteins. It is also possible to display molecular surfaces, electrostatic potential surfaces, electron density surfaces.

The main window contains a menu bar and four tabs.
1. The graphics tab on your right where graphics objects are displayed.
2. This Help tab where this help or other content appears.
3. The gMol tab where the chemistry menus appear.
4. The Gramps tab where text commands can be typed and gramps objects can be manipulated.

The tabs at the bottom of the main window allow you to select which tab is shown. The graphics tab is always shown. The Tabs menu in the menu bar can also be used to select which of the Help, gMol or Gramps tab tabs are shown. Additional tabs are added whenever you open an html file (menu File/Open) or visit a web site (menu File/Open URL).

gMol uses the mouse to rotate and scale the overall scene containing all objects. Moving the mouse with the left button pressed rotates the scene and the mouse wheel scales it.

gMol uses the general-purpose graphics display system called Gramps. Gramps is an application used to display, manipulate and animate 3-dimensional graphics objects composed of points, lines, shaded polygons, sphere and cylinders. If you need to create models other than those provided by gMol, you can create Gramps objects using your own programs and incorporate those into the gMol/Gramps display.

Gramps is also a command line graphics language. The full power of Gramps is available through the use of these commands. To use Gramps commands, select the Gramps tab below.

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this 3d graphic software.