MOLDEN: a pre- and post- processing program for molecular and electronic structures
Interfaced via program output Gaussian GAMESS-US GAMESS-UK MOPAC, AMPAC
Interfaced via Molden Format ADF MOLPRO ACESII MOLCAS JAGUAR DALTON HONDO CADPAC
Molecular Builder/Editor
Interface to Gamess/Gaussian/Mopac
Direct Visualization of Reactionpaths and Vibrations
VRML animations of Reactions, Orbitals and Vibrations
Molden Calculates Electron Density: Laplacian of the electron density Molecular Density Molecular minus Atomic Density Laplacian of the electron density Electrostatic Potential (ESP) Multipole Moments Charges and Multipoles fit to ESP Mulliken charges, molecular dipole
Orbitals
Difference Density
Effect basis-set on Density
Electrostatic Potential
Electrostatic Potential mapped on an isodensity surface
Spindensity
Multipole Derived Electrostatic Potential
Simultaneous Rendering of multiple surfaces
Graphical Output Formats Xwindows Postscript OpenGL, VRML PovRay Tek4010, HPGL etc.
Contour Plot of Difference Density of H2O2 Postscript Contour Plot of Difference Density of H2O2
VRML
Interface to the Xtinker crystal minimizer Interface to tinker MM3 force field Edit Cell Parameters and Spacegroup
Building of Protein Structure
Interface to Tinker Protein Force Fields Interactive manipulation of Atom Types
Manipulation of Protein Sidechains
High Quality Secundary Structure Rendering of Proteins
Publications QCPE: 619 MOLDEN: A Portable Electron Density Program Published in the Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design: Molden: a pre- and post- processing program for molecular and electronic structures The effect of isodensity surface sampling on ESP derived charges and the effect of adding bondcenters on DMA derived charges.
Molden URL’s The Molden Home Page http://www.cmbi.kun.nl/~schaft/molden/molden.html Molden VRML orbital/electron density service http://www.cmbi.kun.nl/~schaft/molden/moldenservice.html
Molden in Web Courses/Publications Web Tutorials in Chemistry (WETCHE,CMBI) Introduction to Computational Chemistry (Frank Jensen) Practical Exercises in Quantum Chemistry (ETH) Scientific Visualization for Computational Chemistry (ACS) Computerchemische Methoden in der Physikalischen Chemie (Jena) Commodity Cluster Computing for Computational Chemistry (Adelaide) ttp://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/cta/ccm/training/courses/scivis/SciVizMMH/Molden.html Introduction to Computational Chemistry (Frank Jensen) http://bogense.chem.ou.dk/~icc/exercises.html http://shay.ecn.purdue.edu/~barmstro/Research/pract/Chemistry/PRACT.html Pract:GAMESS Practical Exercises in Quantum Chemistry (ETH) http://www.igc.ethz.ch/luethi-group/QCII/ Commodity Cluster Computing for Computational Chemistry http://www.dhpc.adelaide.edu.au/reports/073/html/dhpc-073.html Multiconfigurational SCF Tutorial http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/cta/ccm/training/courses/gamess/mcscf.html Computerchemische Methoden in der Physikalischen Chemie http://www.uni-jena.de/chemie/institute/pc/grummt/sem_qc/start.html
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