I'm making increasing use of iPython notebooks and this package looks like it will be very useful.

nglview is a Python package that makes it easy to visualize molecular systems, including trajectories, directly in the Jupyter Notebook. The recent 0.4.0 release of nglview brings a convenient interface for visualizing MDAnalysis Universe and AtomGroup objects directly:

More details here…

The notebook widget allows you to rotate and zoom the molecule and lets you select atoms by clicking on the molecule.

Easily installed using PIP

pip install nglview

Update

There have been a number of comments and responses via twitter highlighting this superb demo.

http://arose.github.io/ngl/

The project is on Github, feel free to contribute!