• VRML Plugin and Browser Detector tells you what browser you're using as well as installed VRML and X3D plugins
• VRML Viewers, Browsers & Plug-ins from the Web3D Corsortium
• 3D Visualization Components from Bitmanagement Software GmbH; source of both BS Contact 7.2 and BS Contact VRML 6.1
• Cortona 3D Viewer Cortona®3D is a fast and highly interactive 3D viewer
  

Mark B. Fischer's Virtual Reality Links a huge, impressive link collection with subtitles such as Virtual Reality and VRML, Virtual Reality Sites, Virtual Reality Hardware, and VRML in Chemistry and other Molecular Modeling Software
VRML for the communication with 3D scenarios of biomolecules  several programs for making and manipulating VRML files.
ORC, Inc. the great site with the weird name!  A source of docs on VRML, Java, and VRML.
Creating VRML Pages  a great, succinct, well-hyperlinked primer on generating VRML structures and embedding them in web pages.
ParallelGraphics (a 3D VRML company)  home site for the Cortona VRML plugin.
PDB to VRML Converter a very easy program to convert the common PDB files into VRML files.
Cosmo Homepage  home site of the CosmoPlayer VRML plugin.
Virtual Chemistry Experiments nice visualization of general chem. topics like coordination chemistry, equilibria, kinetics, etc.
Virtual Chemistry at Oxford a series of chemical applications of VRML, being developed by a series of undergraduates; includes:

• Organometallic Synthesis
• Named Organic Reactions
• VSEPR Theory
• Symmetries of Inorganic Molecules
  

VRML in Chemistry an old, but still very useful, paper by Prof. Henry Rzepa of Imperial College
VR Chemical Bonding:

• Hybrid Orbitals
• Molecular Orbitals
• Ligand Field Theory

VRML Models a gallery of images in all kinds of areas outside of chemistry.
VRML Worlds you've got to have some fun with it occasionally!  This is probably what you envision when you think of virtual reality.


Model Construction
Free Molecular Modelling Programs - great comparative review of 15 popular programs
Gasteiger Research - the CORINA Site creates PDB files from SMILES or JME editor - easy and quick
VRML File Creator for Chemical Structures  creates PDB files as the above site, but many variables can be specified - more control, more time
PDB to MultiGif Page creates animated gifs (rotating) from PDB files - very fast
Mol4D Web Organic Chemistry University of Nijmegen - create models, animations, does M.O. calculations on-line which are visualized.
Java-Based SMILES Generator  draw a molecule and it generates the SMILES string necessary for many visualization programs
CARP: Calculate and Animate a Reaction Path  - from the Mol4D site
Spinwave - Graphics File Compression incredible gif compression - >90% reduction!  (GIF files are already compressed, which makes this quite amazing)
Submit a molecule or reaction for calculation (MOPAC)  - from the Mol4D site: easy, fast site that's an ideal introduction to visualizing orbitals
CHEMINT98: Chemistry and the Internet ACD/I-Lab "Web Librarian" database interface


Additional Resources
WebMO - Computational Chemistry on the WWW  interface to computational packages; unix/Linux-based
Visual Molecular Dynamics visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems
Amber Home Page Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement, from UCSF; comes only on CD, acad. price is $400
ACD/Free Stuff great software, incl. ChemSketch, ISIS/Draw, IUPAC naming add-on, 3D viewers, more...and it's all free!
Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters   free software for language tools, primarily aimed at developers rather than researchers
Drug Design Laboratory Medicinal Chem. Institute, Milan - source of VEGA, a great mol. dynamics package (free)
TMMeC - The Molecular Modeling Electronic Conference


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