The Perfect Tool Project

Well, the project has started. Besides the funny name, it wants to stimulate the chemistry researchers that use the CSCS computational resources to think about visualization for their work.

Chemistry is a visual science, but from our experience seems that the chemistry visualization tools lag behind. And seems that the researchers are resigned to this and do not think about new things to be asked to visualization tools. But from another side, seems that when they are convinced of the benefits visualization could provide to their work, they do not stop to ask advanced functionalities for their tools.

This project starts from a survey of existing tools and an analysis of "perfect tools" in other fields. The end could be another tool, but we think the best outcome will be an active dialog between chemistry researchers and visualization experts to advance the whole field of chemistry visualization tools.

If you want more details, go to the Perfect Tool Project page.