Keeping Your View Consistent When Animating in SAMSON

When preparing animations in molecular modeling, maintaining a visually consistent perspective across frames is essential. Any unintended movement of the camera can lead to a jarring viewer experience or loss of focus on critical molecular features. This is a common…

Smoothly Rotate Molecular Structures Between Keyframes

When preparing molecular animations for presentations or publication, one common challenge molecular modelers face is how to clearly convey spatial changes in the structure. Whether you’re assembling a trajectory, showing conformational changes, or simply rotating a protein for visual inspection,…

Visualizing Ligand Binding Sites in SAMSON with the FITTED Suite

Molecular modelers frequently face the challenge of interpreting docking results in a way that goes beyond scores and binding poses. Visualizing the ligand environment—identifying surrounding residues, interactions, and spatial organization—is a vital yet sometimes tedious part of structure-based drug design.…

From Ring to Tube: A Simple Way to Build Carbon Nanotubes in SAMSON

Designing carbon nanotubes from scratch can be complicated and time-consuming, especially when precise atomic alignment and control over periodicity are essential. If you’re a molecular modeler in materials science or nanotech, you’ve likely spent time manually replicating rings, adjusting rotations,…