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If you are interested in structural biology and have a need to check 3D structures of biomacromolecules from the PDB then you should check out ProteinGlimpse. It’s a Dashboard Widget (Sorry MacOS X 10.4 and above only and maybe soon on Linux running KDE) using JMol as a rendering engine that lets you visualize an X-Ray or NMR structure of a molecule just by typing in it’s PDB code. The view options are preset and a bit limited, but it is great for a quick interrogation. The window is expandable and collapses down nicely when not in use. If you need anything more powerful you can just download the file and use one of many viewing programs: Garlic, VMD, iMol, PyMol, RasMol, MolMol, to name a few. See Macs get all the cool, useful apps. Isn’t it about time you switched?