MolView

A simple 3D viewer for all kinds of molecules, built on top of JSMol. Accessible at https://atomicarchitects.com/MolView/.

Some supported features:

• Load molecules from the RSCB Protein Data Bank (PDB), Materials Project and NIH PubChem, with no API keys needed.
• Manipulate atomic geometries (highlight/delete/color atoms).
• Save screenshots (as .png) and structures (as .xyz, .pdb, .mol, .sdf, .cif).

How to run locally?

git clone https://github.com/atomicarchitects/MolView.git
cd MolView
python -m http.server 8000

and then navigate to http://localhost:8000/.

For Materials Project

We have a setup a proxy server via Google Cloud Run to query the Materials Project via OPTIMADE (no API key required).

If you want to run your own proxy server, check out https://github.com/ameya98/mp-proxy.

git clone https://github.com/ameya98/mp-proxy.git
cd mp-proxy
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -r requirements.txt
python mp-proxy/proxy.py

Then, update MP_PROXY_SERVER in index.html to match the proxy server URL (eg. http://localhost:5001). You can then query the Materials Project with MolView.