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Stmol: A component for building interactive molecular visualizations within streamlit web-applications
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Stmol: A component for building interactive molecular visualizations within streamlit web-applications

J.M. Nápoles-Duarte, Avratanu Biswas, Mitchell I. Parker, J.P. Palomares-Baez, M. A. Chávez-Rojo and L. M. Rodríguez-Valdez
Frontiers in molecular biosciences, v 9, pp 990846-990846
23 Sep 2022
PMID: 36213112
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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2022.990846/pdfView
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2022.990846View
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Abstract

Molecular Biosciences open source protein visualization python package stmol streamlit
Streamlit is an open-source Python coding framework for building web-applications or “web-apps” and is now being used by researchers to share large data sets from published studies and other resources. Here we present Stmol, an easy-to-use component for rendering interactive 3D molecular visualizations of protein and ligand structures within Streamlit web-apps. Stmol can render protein and ligand structures with just a few lines of Python code by utilizing popular visualization libraries, currently Py3DMol and Speck. On the user-end, Stmol does not require expertise to interactively navigate. On the developer-end, Stmol can be easily integrated within structural bioinformatic and cheminformatic pipelines to provide a simple means for user-end researchers to advance biological studies and drug discovery efforts. In this paper, we highlight a few examples of how Stmol has already been utilized by scientific communities to share interactive molecular visualizations of protein and ligand structures from known open databases. We hope Stmol will be used by researchers to build additional open-sourced web-apps to benefit current and future generations of scientists.

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