<html> <head> <title> Garlic - The Most Portable Molecular Viewer and Editor in Unix World </title> </head> <h1 align=center> Garlic </h1> <h2 align=center> The Most Portable Molecular Viewer and Editor in Unix World </h2> <hr size="3"> <font size="-1" color=RED> garlic, free molecular viewer and editor, free molecular visualization program, protein structure, DNA structure, PDB, molecular rendering, biological macromolecule, Unix, Linux, free software download, open source software, Damir Zucic. </font> <hr size="3"> The statement that garlic is the most portable molecular viewer/editor in unix world might look quite bold at the first sight, but it is based on serious arguments. Garlic requires only three libraries to run: the standard C library (libc), the standard math library (libm), and the standard X11 library (libX11). These libraries are available on every serious unix or unix compatible system. All other programs, (except one: <a href="http://www.nibsc.ac.uk/mdxvu/manual.htm"> mdxvu </a> ) require some additional binary libraries. <br><br> Compiling and/or installing a program which requires numerous libraries may turn into nightmare. Not only that all these libraries must be present on your system: a version number is important too! And if you manage to compile and/or install the program, it may behave strange when you try to use it: there is a chance that one or more libraries were not tested enough before shipping, causing core dumps and other runtime problems. <br><br> Check <a href="competition/index.html"> the list </a> of freely available molecular visualization programs for unix and unix clones. This page lists also the libraries required to run each of these programs. <hr size="3"> </html>
