Bioinformatics. 2019 Jul 1;35(13):2323-2325. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty968.
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.
BlendMol is available free of charge from http://durrantlab.com/blendmol/. It is written in Python.
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
VMD 和 PyMOL 等程序是分析大分子结构的优秀工具，但它们并未实现电影和视频游戏行业中常用的许多高级渲染技术。相比之下，开源程序 Blender 是用于行业标准渲染/可视化的通用工具，但它的用户界面不适合严格的科学分析。我们介绍了 BlendMol，这是一个将 VMD 或 PyMOL 场景导入 Blender 的 Blender 插件。BlendMol 生成的图像非常适合用于手稿、推广计划、网站和课程。
BlendMol 可从 http://durrantlab.com/blendmol/ 免费获得。它是用 Python 编写的。
补充数据可在 Bioinformatics 在线获得。
