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Stop Losing Your Molecules: How to Keep the Camera Focused on Moving Atoms

When you’re visualizing molecular dynamics, it’s common to focus on a specific region of your system—maybe a crucial ligand, or a flexible protein loop. But as the simulation unfolds, that region often drifts out of view. You’re left constantly adjusting…

Integrating External Tools in SAMSON: A Flexible Approach to Molecular Modeling

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One challenge many molecular modelers face is bridging the gap between specialized external tools and their main modeling platform. Whether it’s docking software, simulation packages, or web-based services, integrating these into a single workflow often means jumping through file conversions,…

Orbiting Molecules: Making Cleaner Molecular Presentations with the Orbit Camera

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Creating animations of molecular structures can be a powerful way to communicate scientific results. But often, modelers struggle to frame their molecules in a visually smooth and structured way. An all-too-common issue: static or jerky camera movements that fail to…

Preparing Multiple Proteins in One Go with SAMSON: A Quick Guide to Batch Protein Preparation

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If you’re working with molecular docking, structural analysis, or simulations across many proteins, you’ve likely run into this challenge: preparing dozens or even hundreds of raw PDB files manually. Stripping water, removing unnecessary ligands, adding hydrogens, resolving alternate locations… doing…

A Simple Way to Animate Molecular Docking in Your Presentations

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Many molecular modelers and structural biologists face a recurring challenge: how to clearly communicate docking processes in presentations or teaching materials. Static images often fall short when trying to illustrate the journey of a ligand towards its receptor. Wouldn’t it…

How to Explore Protein Transition Paths and Visualize Their Energies

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Understanding how proteins change shape between two conformations is a challenge faced by many molecular modelers. These conformational changes are essential for protein function, but identifying plausible transition pathways and analyzing their energy profiles can be time-consuming and complex. The…

Quickly Identify Segments by Atom or Residue Count in SAMSON

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If you work with large and complex molecular systems, you’ve probably encountered the challenge of filtering specific segments based on properties like the number of atoms, residues, or atoms of certain elements. Manually evaluating these properties one by one is…

Toggling Visibility in Molecular Models: A Quick Guide to ‘visible’ and ‘visibilityFlag’

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When working with complex molecular systems, being able to control what is shown on screen can make a big difference in both user experience and analysis workflow. This is especially true when you’re navigating large biomolecular assemblies or running simulations…

What if you could undo that modeling mistake? In SAMSON, you can.

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Anyone who has spent time designing or simulating molecular systems knows the frustration of making a change—perhaps moving an atom, deleting a node, or applying a modification—only to instantly realize it wasn’t the right move. In larger or more complex…

When Disappearance Tells a Story: How to Use Hide Animations in Molecular Movies

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Creating molecular animations isn’t just about rotating a molecule or changing colors. Sometimes, it’s about storytelling — visualizing interactions, processes, or transitions in ways that make complex behavior simpler to understand. One frequently overlooked but highly effective animation technique in…