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. 2012 Aug 13;4:17. doi: 10.1186/1758-2946-4-17

Table 1.

List of default display type (engine) plugins

Name Description
Axes
Renders x, y, z Cartesian axes from the origin
Ball and Stick
Standard ball and stick representation
Cartoon
Secondary biological structure (αhelix and βsheet)
Dipole
Render direction/magnitude of dipole
 
moment if present
Force
Renders arrows showing forces on atoms from
 
force field
Hydrogen Bond
Renders hydrogen bonds as dotted lines
Label
Shows labels on atoms and bonds, configurable
Overlay
Overlay of color gradient used for electrostatic
 
properties
Polygon
Renders closed polygons of metallic centers
Ribbon
Basic secondary structure ribbon rendering
Ring
Renders rings in structure, different colors
 
depending on ring size
Simple Wireframe
Very simple wireframe display
Sticks
Stick or liquorice rendering style for atoms
 
and bonds
Surface
Renders triangular isosurface meshes
Van der Waals
Van der Waals sphere rendering (no bonds,
Spheres
space-filling)
Wireframe
Wireframe with more features such as bond order
  rendering