Thinking this is likely the quickest route to Wave gadgets that do 3d molecular visualisation as first class wave objects. Store molecule reference and state on the wave (in the gadget data) and render client side via O3D. Probably a big job to put the appropriate libraries together though. - Cameron Neylon

Andy and I have been discussing that recently: http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/capston... - Jean-Claude Bradley

Here's an example of what's been done so far, SMILES to 3D in a browser: http://old.oru.edu/cccda... (only proof of concept so far, thus our proposal for students to finish it, see JC's link above). - Andrew Lang

Would be a direct competitor to Jmol if enough data processing back-ends were written for it. Unless the Jmol folks co-opt it first. - Jiahao Chen

Sorry yes, brain not keeping up this week. That looks a good start. Jiahao, the best case scenario might be if the back end of JMOL could be easily ported to use O3D. But I'm looking for expert opinions on what the best route is. Or whether some entirely different approach is the best plan. - Cameron Neylon