Author: OneAngstrom

If you’ve ever struggled to create smooth, meaningful camera motion around your molecular system for a presentation or video, you’re not alone. Researchers and educators often need to show complex structures from different angles, but manual camera work can be…

When working with molecular systems, tracking precise physical quantities such as bond lengths and angles is essential—especially during conformational changes, docking, or real-time energy minimization. But manually updating those values as atoms move? That’s time-consuming and difficult to follow visually.…

Running complex simulations like protein folding predictions with AlphaFold or molecular dynamics in GROMACS is increasingly accessible thanks to cloud computing. Yet, managing cloud-based jobs efficiently is still a challenge for many molecular modelers: Where did that protein structure prediction…

Molecular modelers often navigate through complex structures, switching back and forth between ligands, receptors, solvent regions, or specific structural motifs. This back-and-forth process can slow down exploration, analysis, and design workflows. SAMSON offers a feature called Quick Groups that addresses…

In molecular modeling and presentations, visual clarity is crucial. Whether you’re creating an educational video, sharing research results, or simply exploring complex systems, you often need to direct the viewer’s attention to specific parts of a molecular structure. One effective…

When working with complex molecular systems in SAMSON, it’s common to switch between various visual representations—ball-and-stick, ribbons, surfaces, and more. Each of these visual styles helps highlight different structural or functional details, but selecting or filtering specific visual models across…

When working with complex molecular models or large biomolecular systems, one common source of frustration is the lack of visual clarity. At some point, everything is color-coded in a way that makes it hard to tell atoms, chains, or functional…

Molecular modelers and computational scientists often face a common obstacle when trying to install advanced software in restricted environments: the need for administrative privileges. Whether you work on institutional machines, shared lab computers, or virtual machines in the cloud, the…

When working with structural protein data, it’s common to download a PDB file and start modeling or simulating right away. But sometimes what you see in the asymmetric unit isn’t the whole story. Many biological assemblies involve symmetric arrangements of…

Molecular modelers trying to produce high-quality images for publications, presentations, or communication often face a recurring issue: getting the visuals to look realistic without spending hours tweaking parameters. Representing molecules in photorealistic styles—whether they’re embedded in a glassy matrix, glowing…