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When to Make Molecules Disappear: Using the Hide Animation in SAMSON

Sometimes, less is more—especially when creating animations to communicate complex molecular systems. If you’re working in SAMSON to design a molecular presentation or video, you might want certain molecules or nodes to vanish at key moments to maintain focus or…

Need to Revert? Here’s How to Install an Older Version of SAMSON

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As a molecular modeler, you might have experienced this situation: an update rolls out for your favorite modeling platform, and suddenly a plugin or workflow you depend on no longer works as expected. Or perhaps a collaborator is using a…

Quickly Select Visible or Hidden Nodes in SAMSON Using NSL

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When working with complex molecular systems in SAMSON, it’s common to deal with hundreds or thousands of elements arranged hierarchically. Molecules include atoms, bonds, residues, and more. To model or visualize at large scale, molecular designers often hide or isolate…

Quickly Find Molecular Side Chains with Specific Atom Counts

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When working on molecular modeling projects, searching for structural patterns within large biomolecules is often time-consuming. Whether you’re looking to identify highly charged side chains, filter out side chains with a large number of atoms, or isolate specific functional groups…

Choosing the Right Discrete Color Palette in Molecular Modeling

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One of the less discussed, but surprisingly important aspects of molecular modeling is color perception. Visualizing molecular structures clearly is essential when working with complex systems, and when you’re layering atoms, molecules, or domains, using the right color palette can…

Quickly Find What’s Visible in Your Molecular Property Models

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When working on complex systems in SAMSON, it’s easy for molecular modelers to lose track of which parts of the model are actually displayed. This can make editing or analyzing your structures frustrating — especially when you’re trying to isolate…

Get Smoother Molecular Flyovers with the Truck Camera in SAMSON

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Creating intuitive and meaningful molecular animations can be challenging—especially when trying to direct the attention of collaborators, reviewers, or students to specific regions of interest in a scene. One recurring problem is producing simple horizontal movement in animations, where both…

Quickly target files in SAMSON using NSL: a practical guide to file selection attributes

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When working with complex molecular systems in SAMSON, navigating through large numbers of nodes—especially files—can be time-consuming and tedious. For molecular modelers juggling multiple simulations, structures, or imported datasets, being able to efficiently filter or act on specific file nodes…

Quickly Find the Right Molecules with NSL Attribute Filters in SAMSON

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When working with large molecular simulations or complex molecular assemblies, finding the right subset of molecules can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Whether you want to focus on molecules with a specific number of chains,…

Easily Create Precise Carbon Nanotube Models Without Writing a Single Line of Code

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Designing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for molecular modeling or material science simulations often requires a deep understanding of their structure: the famous n and m parameters that define both the chirality and radius of a CNT. But what if you just…