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Open-source PyMOL plugin for membrane-aware review of predicted, designed and experimental protein structures. Membrane Visual QC provides planar membrane-relative geometry, residue core/interface classification, hydropathy and ligand-context review, solvent-accessibility context, PDBTM/OPM orientation-source checks, and reproducible batch reporting. It is designed as a review assistant rather than a biological structure validator.

Converts Protein Data Bank structures into 3D-printable models. Each polymer chain is meshed separately and written as a named object in a single 3MF file, so a multi-material printer can assign one filament per chain. Protein chains can be rendered as a solvent-excluded surface, a cartoon, or a backbone tube; nucleic acids as a tube-and-rung form with the strands of a duplex welded at every base pair. Press-fit magnet pockets are optionally placed at chain interfaces, so a complex comes apart where its subunits actually meet. All meshes are checked for watertightness before export.

This tutorial aims to illustrate the process of computing a conformational transition between two known structural conformations of a protein, step by step, using the BioExcel Building Blocks (biobb).

MicroMiner assists in identifying single-residue substitutions in protein structure databases. It searches protein residue environments with local sequence and structural similarity based on the SIENA methodology. Users can search for structural mutation in the entire PDB, their in-house structure collection, or (subsets of) the AlphaFold Database. They can use the method to explore the mutation landscape of proteins with experimental or predicted structures. MicroMiner can be applied to single domains or even protein-protein or protein-ligand interfaces. Several filter options to simplify downstream analysis are available.