From Ring to Tube: Constructing Carbon Nanotubes Manually in SAMSON

Designing nanostructures like carbon nanotubes can be tedious when you’re confined to repetitive manual replication and alignment. For computational chemists, nanomodelers, and molecular designers, the lack of intuitive pattern generation tools has been a long-standing bottleneck—especially when aiming to preserve…

Simplifying Protein Structure Prediction with AlphaFold-2 in SAMSON

Accurate prediction of protein structures is essential in many areas of molecular modeling—from drug design to understanding protein function. However, running AlphaFold-2 locally can be technically demanding and resource-intensive, especially without top-tier GPUs and data setup. For many researchers and…

A Better Way to Integrate Your Tools with SAMSON

If you work in molecular modeling, chances are you’ve built up a toolbox over the years: custom scripts, favorite web services, standalone applications. You’ve probably had the thought: “How can I connect all of this with my modeling workflows more…

Quickly Surround Proteins with Lipid Bilayers in SAMSON

Generating lipid bilayers around proteins is a common step in membrane protein modeling, but it often involves multiple tools, file format conversions, and error-prone setup steps. If you’ve ever found yourself frustrated by having to script this process—or worse, trying…

From Rings to Tubes: Building Carbon Nanotubes in SAMSON

Designing nanoscale architectures like carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is often a tedious challenge in molecular modeling. Aligning atoms, replicating units, and preserving bonding integrity can take hours of meticulous work, even for small structures. If you’ve ever tried to build a…