Protein Viewer

A PyMOL / ChimeraX style interactive 3D viewer for protein structures inside Dalea, built on Mol*. Opens PDB and mmCIF structures from workspace files, uploads, or data-table rows (including AlphaFold results), and renders them in your browser.

Features

• Multiple representations per object - cartoon, sticks, spheres, surface, each as its own layer with independent opacity and material settings.
• Coloring - by chain, element, object, or secondary structure, with overrides and per-object control.
• Selection language - target chains, residues, or regions (e.g. protein, chain A, resid 40-60) to style, color, or measure.
• Measurements, H-bonds, contacts - pick atoms/residues to measure distances and angles; compute H-bonds and contacts.
• Superposition - align and compare multiple structures.
• Saved views & annotations - capture camera, layers, and selection as a named view; restore it on load.
• Persisted structures - structures-table rows keep versions and full provenance, so a loaded structure is reloadable later.

Quick start

1. Load a structure - "Load object" from a workspace PDB/mmCIF file, upload one directly, or open a Structures-table row.
2. Style it - add layers and pick a representation + coloring.
3. Inspect - pick residues to measure, run selection commands, compute H-bonds or contacts.
4. Save - store the view and annotations (and optionally a versioned copy of the structure) for later.

Configuration (installation settings)

Notes

• Rendering happens in the browser; only structure references/versions are stored, in the Structures table, with provenance.
• Quality adapts automatically; open the sequence panel to navigate residues.