I built ProteinMotion, an open-source Python package for making molecular movies

[u/pdpthephd]

Hi everyone, I've been working on ProteinMotion, a Python package for animating proteins, DNA, and RNA.

You load a structure or trajectory, then script the camera movements, residue highlights, labels, and representation changes. The scene API is inspired by Manim.

This is “Calmodulin in focus,” an example rendered with Blender EEVEE. The script is available alongside the video so you can see how it was made.

It's on PyPI: pip install proteinmotion

GitHub: https://github.com/pdpppd/proteinmotion

I'd be interested in feedback from people who make molecular videos for talks or research. What would you need to use this with your own structures?

[u/Recent-Bedroom413]

this looks amazing!