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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Installing GROMACS for molecular modeling and simulation has traditionally been a technical barrier for many researchers and students. It often involves downloading source code, managing dependencies, ensuring compatibility with specific compilers, and sometimes taking deep dives into system-level settings. If…