Q6

Comments on the respondents' second most used visualisation tool.

47 replies were given.

The most commonly used tools, with links to answers are:

1. gnuplot - 5 replies
2. Materials Studio - 3 replies
3. Matlab - 3 replies, but is not discussed in this section as the responses are the same as those in question 5.
4. Paraview - 3 replies
5. PyMol - 3 replies, also not discussed here.
6. VMD - 3 replies, also not discussed here.

Other tools that had two responses:

1. CCPN Analysis
2. Discovery Studio
3. IMOD
4. JMOL
5. Vesta
6. Visit
7. xmgrace

Overall

A few observations can be drawn from these responses:

1. Users seems to prefer software that is general purpose.
2. Large datasets must be handled efficiently.
3. Good quality documentation/tutorials is required.
4. Ability to read multiple formats is useful.