When you are modeling a molecule, the hard part is not always deciding what to do. Sometimes it is finding where a tool lives, which selection method suits the task, or whether a feature exists at all. A long webinar can help—but only if you can get to the relevant part without watching every minute.
SAMSON’s webinar recordings include chapter timestamps, so you can treat them as a menu rather than a single, uninterrupted presentation. Here is a practical way to use the 2024 and 2025 recordings when a particular modeling task is slowing you down.
Start with the obstacle, not the beginning
If selecting the right atoms, residues, or other parts of a structure is taking too long, the 2024 recording offers several different routes to explore. Start with selection using the Document View and Context Toolbar, then compare it with selection in the Viewport and with Selection filters. The recording also covers the Node Specification Language and SAMSON AI and the Interactive Sequence Viewer.
These chapters are useful to browse as alternatives, rather than assuming there is one best selection method for every situation. As you watch, note which interface is being used and what kind of selection task it appears to address. That gives you a more focused starting point when you return to your own structure.
When the challenge is inspection or presentation
For inspecting a structure, the 2025 webinar includes a segment on Progressive Clipping, followed by a chapter on Quick Groups for storing and controlling selections. These are useful chapters to look up when you want to explore ways of managing what is visible or keeping selections organized.
If you are preparing a figure or communicating an interaction, the 2024 recording has chapters on producing renderings with Cycles, the Visual Preset Editor, and creating movies with the Animator. The 2025 recording also shows the Interaction designer for creating and editing 2D and 3D protein–ligand interaction diagrams.
For sequence and structure work
If comparing proteins is your immediate task, go directly to the 2025 segment on Protein Aligner, described as a tool for aligning multiple protein sequences and structures. If your work involves molecular dynamics, the 2024 recording includes chapters on importing and visualizing GROMACS simulations and using Martinize to create coarse-grained structures.
Make the recording work for you
A simple approach is to identify one concrete question before opening the video, use the chapter list to jump to the closest match, and write down the feature name and timestamp. If the segment points to a tool you want to investigate, use that name to find the corresponding extension or documentation. The webinar chapters are an overview and a discovery aid; they are not a substitute for detailed instructions when you need to follow a complete procedure.
This method also helps when you are evaluating SAMSON before changing your setup: the documentation presents the webinars as a way to review recent releases without interrupting the main installation and first-launch workflow.
Browse the SAMSON webinars documentation for the recordings and chapter lists.
Note: SAMSON and all SAMSON Extensions are free for non-commercial use. Get SAMSON at samson-connect.net.