What computer programs are used to assemble these wonderful cartoons, schemes, and structures that we see in supramolecular chemistry articles.
might be illustrator or any other vector drawing software, or else a 3D program, such as Blender. If you post an example of what you want to achieve it'd be easier to point in the right direction.
Can you share an example of what you want? I use a lot of Softwares to draw my structures an maybe I know what to use to achieve your results.
I'm sorry. I've tried to attach a file but I've just realized that the file was not attached
Those are some vector images. Illustrator or any analog would do.
As Eugenio pointed out, the author is using a vector drawing software (CorelDraw, Illustrator, Inkscape) to draw the proteins and a 2D Chemical Drawing Software (like MarvinSketch, ChemDoodle or ChemOffice) to draw the molecules. It is easier to start from a model generated by a good 3D modeling software (I'd like to recommend UCSF Chimera) and then use your vector drawing software to tweak and improve your graphic.
Dear Daniela,
Your question is very interesting as to what programs to use for such type of layout, unfortunately you have to use several programs and a lot of them are proprietary license. However there are alternatives, although it is difficult to lay out very complex chemical structures in latex, you can look at the following link:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52722/can-you-make-chemical-structure-diagrams-in-latex
If you want to make extraordinary visualization effects with very complex systems like biological systems you can use VMD.
VMD - Visual Molecular Dynamics:
Http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Finally, you can build and design images with the support of free license software like Inkscape and Gimp.
https://inkscape.org
http://www.rohitfarmer.in/science/using-inkscape-for-chemical-structurepathway-drawing/
https://www.gimp.org
Regards,
Ender Araujo.
Many thanks to all of you who have sent me an answer. I'm not used to drawing or using these programs. I'll study about it and try to get the software, if possible, and use it.
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