Author: OneAngstrom

Building biologically relevant molecular systems often involves embedding a protein within a lipid bilayer or surrounding it with a lipid monolayer. For molecular modelers, manually placing lipids around complex protein structures can be time-consuming and error-prone. Ensuring correct orientation, packing…

When preparing molecular animations, one common challenge for modelers is to highlight changes — whether it’s a reaction step or a conformational switch — without confusing the viewer. Too many rapid visual transformations or sudden structure appearances can overwhelm audiences…

When preparing molecular animations, controlling what appears and disappears at each moment can be crucial for clarity. Suppose you’re building a presentation to explain how a ligand enters a binding pocket, or how different subunits of a protein interact over…

Have you ever looked at a molecular visualization and thought: something feels off? The colors are there, the structure is right, but the image looks… flat. If you’ve experienced this in your molecular modeling workflow, you’re not alone. One often…

Anyone who’s ever crafted molecular animations knows the challenge: you want to zoom in on a specific region of a molecule or complex — perhaps a binding site, active site, or ligand-receptor interaction — without affecting your overall scene composition.…

Designing molecular systems often involves experimenting with structures: forming bonds, breaking them, tweaking atom types. For many molecular modelers, these changes have traditionally required discrete steps such as redefining topology, restarting simulations, and recalculating parameters—interrupting the creative or scientific flow.…

Designing clear and engaging molecular presentations can be tricky—especially when it comes to showing complex molecular structures without overwhelming the viewer. One recurring challenge for molecular modelers, educators, and students is how to highlight parts of a molecular system progressively,…

When uncovering potential unbinding pathways for ligands within protein structures, molecular modelers often run into a common challenge: how to guide the search space efficiently to obtain biologically relevant paths without overly constraining or biasing the simulation. One practical tool…