Poster Presentation 49th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function 2024

Molecular Nodes (#216)

Brady A Johnston 1 , Charlie S Bond 1
  1. School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

Molecular Nodes represents a revolution in molecular graphics. Previously there was a distinct divide between professional 3D animation software and dedicated molecular graphics programs. Users could export from one to the other to make a 'nicer looking' protein, but they were always limited in functionality and speed. Molecular Nodes brings tightly integrated support for different macromolecular data formats to the industry-leading 3D modeling and animation program Blender.

Bringing the underlying data to Blender, rather than just exporting a 3D model generated by another molecular graphics program, opens to the door to create animations and complex visulisations that are informed by the underling atomic data. The speed and ease of use, has lead to the adoptin of Molecular Nodes by multiple professional scientific animation studios, and the rapid uptake in use by researchers around the world to create beautiful molecular graphics with ease.