# Welcome to EZ-Viz

Pymol is a molecular modeling program that can be used in a wide range of studies within the scientific commnity. Its ability to produce informative, detailed, steroescopic images makes it a very powerful tool in the laboratory and the in the classroom. However, the PyMOL user interface is difficult to use and it's "development has been focused on capabiliites, not on ease-of-use for new users." (PyMOL Users Manual) To resolve this, we set out to develop a new interface for PyMOL that can be installed as a plugin and helps to eliminate the need for command line interactions, making it a much more user-friendly interface. Using tools from Python's Tkinter and Pmw toolkits, we created a tabbed interface called EZ-Viz. The interface contains a series of buttons and entry fields that allow users to select given attributes of a molecule and make changes to it with the click of a button as opposed to issuing highly syntactical commands. Other features of the interface include

- A Chime/PyMOL command converter
- 9 preset molecular views
- 4 molecular movies
- Molecular sequence and hetero atom information

The ongoing and continued devlopment of EZ-Viz could help to further the use of PyMOL, which we believe to be one of the most powerful molecular viewing programs currently available.