Show as surface#

Rendering molecular surface representations in NGLView.

The function molsysmt.third_party.nglview.show_as_surface() renders solvent-accessible or Van der Waals molecular surfaces in NGLView.

Added in version 1.0.0.

API documentation

Follow this link for a detailed description of the input arguments, raised errors, and returned objects: molsysmt.third_party.nglview.show_as_surface().

Basic usage#

Let’s demonstrate how to use this function on an interactive NGLView view:

import molsysmt as msm

molsys = msm.convert(msm.systems['T4 lysozyme L99A']['181l.h5msm'], to_form='molsysmt.MolSys')
view = msm.convert(molsys, to_form='nglview.NGLWidget')
msm.third_party.nglview.show_as_surface(view, selection='molecule_type=="protein"', opacity=0.7)

Evaluating the view object displays the interactive visualization:

view