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BlendMol: advanced macromolecular visualization in Blender

Author(s) -

Jacob D. Durrant

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

bioinformatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599

H-Index - 390

eISSN - 1367-4811

pISSN - 1367-4803

DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty968

Subject(s) - plug in , python (programming language) , visualization , computer science , rendering (computer graphics) , computer graphics (images) , outreach , interactive visualization , graphical user interface , software , human–computer interaction , world wide web , programming language , artificial intelligence , political science , law

Programs such as VMD and PyMOL are excellent tools for analyzing macromolecular structures, but they do not implement many of the advanced rendering techniques common in the film and video-game industries. In contrast, the open-source program Blender is a general-purpose tool for industry-standard rendering/visualization, but its user interface is poorly suited for rigorous scientific analysis. We present BlendMol, a Blender plugin that imports VMD or PyMOL scenes into Blender. BlendMol-generated images are well suited for use in manuscripts, outreach programs, websites and classes.

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