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Easily Find Hidden and Visible Backbone Nodes in SAMSON

Molecular modelers working with complex structures often face a recurring challenge: navigating crowded scenes with many overlapping molecular elements. When certain parts of a structure are hidden or set to different visibility states, it’s easy to lose track of important…

Getting Clear PMF Insights in Minutes Using WHAM in GROMACS Wizard

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Understanding how molecules interact along a reaction coordinate is a key step in molecular design. However, computing the Potential of Mean Force (PMF) often requires juggling multiple scripts, preparing files, and sorting out outputs that aren’t always intuitive. If you’ve…

Controlling Light Node Visibility in Molecular Scenes

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In molecular modeling and visualization, lighting plays a key role in making scenes more comprehensible. Lights can make molecular structures clearer, emphasize important regions, and improve overall realism — but working with complex scenes can quickly become frustrating when you’re…

Why Your SAMSON Extension Won’t Load (And How You Can Fix It)

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If you’re developing or using molecular modeling tools in SAMSON, you may eventually encounter this situation: you launch SAMSON, expecting your favorite extension to appear… but it doesn’t load. No error, just silence. What’s going on? This is actually a…

Reusing Designs: How to Import Cadnano Structures into Adenita

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Designing DNA nanostructures from scratch can be time-consuming. But if you’ve already built components in Cadnano, you don’t have to start over when moving into 3D modeling. Adenita, an extension for the SAMSON platform, allows you to directly import Cadnano-generated…

Progressively Hiding Atoms in SAMSON: A Smoother Way to Focus Your Story

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When creating visually engaging molecular animations, it’s often important to guide your audience’s attention in a deliberate way. Maybe you want to zoom into the active site of a protein or gradually hide peripheral atoms as you move through a…

Making Atoms Appear Step-by-Step in Your Molecular Animations

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When creating molecular presentations, showing everything at once can lead to visual overload — especially for larger molecules. Sometimes all you want is to walk your audience through a part of a structure, one piece at a time. Whether you’re…

How to Quickly Select and Organize Light Sources in Your Molecular Scene

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When building a molecular scene in SAMSON, lighting plays a key role in making sure that your visualizations are both scientifically clear and aesthetically compelling. But if your project involves multiple light nodes—think of directional lights, spotlights, or ambient light…

Choosing the Right Color Palette in Molecular Visualization

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Color can be more than visual appeal when modeling molecules—it communicates information, separates regions, and reveals trends. But choosing a color palette that fits your goals can be difficult, especially when you want clarity across complex molecular assemblies. If you’re…

An Easier Way to Work with Residue Selections Across Views

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When analyzing biomolecular structures, a common frustration is keeping selections consistent across different representations of your model. If you select a residue or chain in a 3D viewport, it can be tedious to track it back to its sequence position—or…