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With the rise of tablets, truly portable molecular graphics are now available for wide use by scientists to share structural information in real time. We have surveyed the existing software available on Apple iPads and on Android tablets in order to make a recommendation to potential users, primarily based on the product features. Among the three apps for high-quality 3-D display, iMolview (available on both platforms) stands out to be our choice, with PyMOL app (iOS) a close alternative and NDKmol (Android) offering some uniquely useful functions. Hence we include a tutorial on how to get started using iMolview to do some simple visualization in 10 min.
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The authors share no commercial interests in the software or hardware described in this article. Y.W.C. acknowledges support from the Innovation and Technology Commission of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Life Science Area of Strategic Fund 1-ZVH9.
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Yiu, CP.B., Chen, Y.W. (2021). Molecular Data Visualization on Mobile Devices: A Quick Starter’s Guide. In: Chen, Y.W., Yiu, CP.B. (eds) Structural Genomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2199. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0892-0_19
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