

See Jmol Colors for a comparison.Ĭovering specific aspects or applications (not by command, and usually not exhaustive): color atom cpknew "cpkNew" is a color scheme for elements slightly diferent than the old default "cpk" not available as such in Jmol.thickness) of the ribbons more or less similar to Jmol's cartoon N. set cartoon N defines the "depth" (i.e.set cartoon on defines that cartoon display should use arrowheads - not needed in Jmol, since that is the default (and not changeable).

These are some RasMol / OpenRasMol commands that are not accepted by Jmol (they will raise an error and will stop further execution of the script): OpenRasMol (v≥2.7) Takes all RasMol 2.6 commands and adds a few. | -Jmol (v≥10) Takes many RasMol 2.6 and Chime 2.6 commands and adds a few. |-Chime Takes nearly all RasMol 2.6 commands and adds a few. The command language used by Jmol started with most of the Chime commands, but has outgrown it in a notable extent, allowing for many new capabilities. (The command language of open-source RasMol has diverged somewhat from that in RasMol and Chime). Similar but different scripting languagesĬhime's command language (see "About Chime" at ) is a superset of the command language of Roger Sayle's public domain application RasMol. You may be interested in this programming language approach. Jmol scripting language has grown, among other features, by adding mathematical operators ( JmolMath), control structures (loops, conditionals, etc.).Scripts can be included inside the molecular model file.In addition to this primary site, with latest updates, there are some mirror sites (see links at right).Īn introduction to Jmol scripting is available here:Ī more user-friendly, but less thorough, basic guide by Nathan Silva and David Marcey part of the Online Macromolecular Museum at California Lutheran University. The style is encyclopedic, explaining each command in turn, as usual in reference manuals. This is the major way of controlling the display of molecules in Jmol.ĭocumentation of Jmol's scripting language can be found here: A set of commands is called a command script, and writing such sets of commands or scripts is called scripting. The Jmol Application and Applet have a command language that grew on the base of the command language of RasMol and its browser plugin MDL Chime. 2.1 RasMol commands not accepted by Jmol.2 Similar but different scripting languages.
