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Introduction

GDIS is a scientific visualization program for the display, manipulation, and analysis of isolated molecules and periodic structures. It is in development, but is nonetheless quite functional. It has the following features:

Support for many common file formats (CIF, PDB, XTL, XYZ, and many more).
Job submission tools for computational chemistry packages: GAMESS, GULP, ReaxMD, and SIESTA.
Job analysis and graphing tools for dynamics simulations.
Useful manipulation tools, including matrix transformations and supercell construction.
Powerful surface generation and crystal morphology tools.
Diffraction pattern generation and plotting.
Animation of multi-frame files.
Assorted tools for visualization (measurements, ribbons, polyhedral display).

GDIS also allows you to perform the following functions through other packages:

Model raytracing (courtesy of POVRay)
Movie generation (courtesy of FFmpeg)
Space group processing (courtesy of SgInfo)
View the Periodic Table (courtesy of GPeriodic)

Although developed on a Linux platform, GDIS has been successfully compiled under IRIX, Solaris, OpenBSD, OS-X, and even Windows.

The source code is released under the GPL.