ProteinBlender Documentation

Welcome to the ProteinBlender documentation! This guide will help you create molecular animations in Blender.

What is ProteinBlender?

ProteinBlender is a Blender addon designed for researchers, educators, and scientific communicators. It provides an intuitive interface for importing, visualizing, and animating protein structures with publication-quality results.

Quick Navigation

• Installation - Get started with ProteinBlender
• Import Proteins - Load protein structures into Blender
• Update Visuals - Customize colors and molecular styles
• Create Puppets - Group chains and domains for animation
• Manage Poses - Save and restore protein conformations
• Keyframe Animation - Animate your proteins

Tutorials

Check out our tutorials on our YouTube channel!

Installing ProteinBlender:

Creating a Simple Animation with ProteinBlender:

Creating a Flexible Linker:

Creating Dynamic Membranes:

Animating DNA and RNA:

Getting Help

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions

About

ProteinBlender is built on MolecularNodes by Brady Johnston and uses scientific Python libraries including biotite and MDAnalysis.

Author: Animation Lab License: GPL-3.0-or-later