Molecular Data Visualization on Mobile Devices: A Quick Starter's Guide.

With the rise of tablets, truly portable molecular graphics are now available for wide use by scientists to share structural information in real time. We have surveyed the existing software available on Apple iPads and on Android tablets in order to make a recommendation to potential users, primarily based on the product features. Among the three apps for high-quality 3-D display, iMolview (available on both platforms) stands out to be our choice, with PyMOL app (iOS) a close alternative and NDKmol (Android) offering some uniquely useful functions. Hence we include a tutorial on how to get started using iMolview to do some simple visualization in 10 min.