Visualization
Free, Feature-Rich Molecular Visualizer
Visualize Your Science
Molecular visualization is a key aspect of the analysis and communication of modeling studies. It enables a mechanistic understanding of a molecule’s structure to be visualized, so that key insights can be shared between computational modeling experts and collaborating team members.
BIOVIA Discovery Studio Visualizer is a free, feature-rich molecular modeling application for viewing, sharing and analyzing protein and small molecule data. Experts and their colleagues can seamlessly and efficiently exchange results, without loss of either time or scientific information.
The Discovery Studio Visualizer provides a comprehensive collection of features to capture the specific nuances of your research:
- High quality graphics with advanced display options and stereo support
- Ability to generate publication quality images
- Interactive 3D graphical view with associated hierarchy and data table views
- Multiple sided surfaces and isosurfaces for enhanced molecular visualization
- Ability to plot data from multiple data series with line and point plots, 3D plots and bar charts
- Charting capability including heat maps, histograms, hit rate plots and more
- Storyboard functionality to capture series of molecular views to demonstrate and share
- Export storyboards as movies
- Sorting, filtering and grouping functionality available for properties in the data table
- Perl scripting to automate repetitive tasks or link tasks together for ease of use
- Tool panels, tool bars and interface layout can be customized as desired
- Support for a wide variety of structure and sequence file formats
- RMS calculations available at different levels of detail
- Monitors available for a wide variety of favorable, unfavorable and unsatisfied non-bond interactions
- Molecular Builders for peptides and nucleic acids
- Calculation of Solvent Accessibility to identify buried and exposed residues
- Graphing functionality, including Ramachandran and contact plots
- Load protein structures directly from the PDB database
- Generate protein reports to summarize data in protein structures
- Construct the biologically active unit of a protein from its subunits
- Clean protein functionality to add missing side-chains, remove disorder and standardize atom naming
- Enhanced display of protein and nucleic acid sequences and analysis of their composition and alignments
- Superimpose structures based on tethers, residues and sequence alignment
- Secondary structure prediction of protein sequences
- Annotation window to view and edit annotations for nucleic acid and protein sequences
- Display and contour X-ray electron density maps
- Basic tools to edit X-ray structures
- Sampling of side-chain rotamer conformations and interaction analysis
- Receptor-ligand interaction surfaces displaying hydrophobicity, hydrogen bonding, aromaticity and more
- View 2D depiction of molecules in the data table
- Sketching tools to create new small molecules
- Modify or build custom 3D small molecules using a tool panel of pre-defined fragments
- Optimize the geometry of built structures with a fast Dreiding-like forcefield
- Basic molecular properties can be calculated such as molecular formula and molecular weight
- Superimpose structures based on molecular overlay using field alignment or tethers
- Define, display and edit ligand binding sites
- Generate 2D receptor-ligand interaction plots
- Analyze the ligand binding patterns between a protein and its bound ligands
- Manually generate pharmacophore (Catalyst) queries
Visualize
- Visualize and examine very large macromolecule systems (E.g., Ribosomes) using a wide range of display types
- Support a range of stereo graphical options (E.g., split screen, hardware stereo)
- Hardware graphics acceleration support for advanced visualization options such as depth cueing, blur and shading capabilities
Explore
Molecular graphics are not the only results that you might want to share. Other visualization capabilities include:
- Sequences, including Chain view support for multi-domain proteins (E.g., Antibodies)
- 2D and 3D Charting, Histograms, Heat maps and Data tables
- Map interactions using a comprehensive set of favorable, unfavorable and unsatisfied non-bond monitors
- Interactivity between multiple graphical views on the same data
Collaborate
Visualization is more than just about creating a graphical scene; its goal is to communicate and collaborate. With Discovery Studio products you can collaborate with colleagues using Storyboards to:
- Capture, navigate, animate and share multiple views of structures
- Incorporate scene transition, timing and auto-play features
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