dewberryants / asciiMol

Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for terminals.

asciiMOL

A basic molecule viewer written in Python, using the ncurses library. Works on any compatible terminal (even on Windows using windows-curses).

Features:

• Opening default cartesian .xyz files
• Orthographic view
• Navigation
• Zoom, Rotation, Auto-Rotation
• Bond detection and display
• Support for simple .xyz trajectories
• Optional integration of ASE and RDKit pypi packages for more formats and SMILES

Installation

pip install asciimol

(Note: pip will install a run script in $HOME/.local/bin/ if you do not install with root permissions, so make sure this directory is part of your $PATH.)

You can also run

pip install asciimol[formats,smiles]

to automatically install ASE for formats and RDKit for smiles.