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Planned contents include PyMOL, Samson, and (now defunct) Sculpt. These programs enable protein conformations to be "sculpted" by dragging with the mouse. | Planned contents include PyMOL, Samson, and (now defunct) Sculpt. These programs enable protein conformations to be "sculpted" by dragging with the mouse. | ||
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Sometimes it is instructive to change the conformation of a protein model. Typically this means "sculpting" an experimentally-determined (empirical) model into a hypothetical conformation with some functional significance. There are software packages that enable this to be done using the mouse to drag portions of the original model into desired conformations. | Sometimes it is instructive to change the conformation of a protein model. Typically this means "sculpting" an experimentally-determined (empirical) model into a hypothetical conformation with some functional significance. There are software packages that enable this to be done manually, using the mouse to drag portions of the original model into desired conformations. | ||
As you sculpt a protein model, you are morphing it into a new conformation. However, [[Morphs|molecular morphing]] usually means making a movie or animation that shows interpolated transitioning between two conformations. There are [[Morphs|many examples of molecular morphs]] in Proteopedia. | |||
==Related Resources== | ==Related Resources== | ||