There’s an App for that
If you would like to practice your symmetry or view a structure from the PDB, ‘There’s an App for that…’
The app Crystallography allows users to draw up to 17 planar symmetry groups. The app deals with the concepts of planar groups, Hermann-Mauguin symbols, symmetry operations, asymmetric unit, general and special positions.
The application has resulted in a publication in the Journal of Applied Crystallography. Once you are done with your drawing you can submit it to be posted in the online gallery.
Although you can’t yet solve your structures on your phone, you can look them. The app Molecules has recently been updated and is now compatible with the iPad.
Molecules allows you to view rendered structural images from the PDB.
I will look forward to following what other applications related to crystallography find themselves on mobile devices. I have a hard time imagining solving a structure on an iphone. Would you use your phone for crystallography? What crystallography applications would you like to see on mobile devices?
Sili
April 13th, 2010 at 11:30 AM #
Iono. I could see it being used as an interface for a server at home. It’d be nice to be able to check to see if stuff’s converged. Or how the datacollection is pottering along. What’s the level in the Dewar? And so on.
Sean
April 14th, 2010 at 2:50 PM #
Good ideas, I never really considered other aspects outside of actual data processing.