3DStructGen: an interactive web-based 3D structure generation for non-periodic molecule and crystal

Background The increasing number of organic and inorganic structures promotes the development of the “Big Data” in chemistry and material science, and raises the need for cross-platform and web-based methods to search, view and edit structures. Many web-based three-dimensional (3D) structure tools have been developed for displaying existing models, building new models, and preparing initial input files for external calculations. But few of these tools can deal with crystal structures.