Nanome v2.2.0 delivers powerful new features for scientists analyzing molecular structures in immersive, collaborative settings. Whether you're measuring atomic distances, customizing structural representations, or exploring chemical interactions with teammates, this release deepens your ability to understand complex data intuitively and efficiently.
The 3D Measurement Tool
At the heart of this release is our highly requested 3D Measurement Tool. This feature enables precise measurement of distances between atoms directly in 3D space. The intuitive interface lets you easily toggle measurement and deletion modes from the tools menu, streamlining your molecular analysis. Expect future enhancements, including additional measurement types like dihedral angles.
Advanced Selection Improvements
Create custom components to represent residue ranges, specific ligands, or specific chains.
Parsing PyMOL Metadata
Load PyMOL (.pse) session files effortlessly, enhancing the import of complex scientific data.
Polymer-Polymer Interactions
Explore chemical interactions in greater depth by examining inter- and intra-entry polymer interactions, including protein interfaces between structures.
Notable Quality-of-Life Improvements
- Dynamic Menu Resolution: The menu now dynamically adjusts its resolution based on your computational demands, ensuring optimal performance even with complex molecular structures.
- Improved Keyboard: the keyboard now previews input text directly, drastically enhancing typing efficiency and experience in XR.
- Customizable Menus: Expand or collapse the left sidebar to reveal full menu labels, helpful especially for new users. Additionally, adjust the application menu width to accommodate extensive ligand data columns, saved per user preference.
- Lock Button: Prevent accidental repositioning of the main menu by easily locking it in place, enhancing stability.
- Meta Quest Controller Integration: Instantly toggle the main menu using the left-hand controller’s hamburger button, streamlining menu access.
- Cursor Dot Implementation: A cursor dot is now visible at the end of your pointer ray, improving menu navigation precision, especially beneficial when using tools like the measurement feature.
Performance Optimizations
The application now launches and runs significantly faster. Thanks to dedicated efforts from our development team, both application and workspace startups have been dramatically optimized for speed.
Rendering and Representation
- Cartoon Rendering: Nucleic acids now feature enhanced cartoon representations, providing clearer, more visually appealing structures.
- Atomistic Representation Optimization: Manage visual clutter and conserve resources by toggling single atomistic representations per component, preventing overlapping visuals.
Foundation for Hooks
We’re laying the groundwork for greater computational flexibility. Once completed, Hooks would enable users to substitute native computations with their own custom calculations enabling more calculations to be run in the cloud. This is just the beginning of a broader effort to support more advanced and customizable scientific workflows.
Additional Improvements
Several smaller, yet impactful updates further refine the experience:
- Enhanced Spotlight/Follow: Quickly synchronize orientation with the spotlight leader, ensuring everyone is aligned during collaborative sessions.
- Ligand Metadata (Computed & Imported) Clearly distinguish between imported and computed ligand metadata directly within the Ligands menu, providing full visibility into your metadata sources.
- Simplified popup management and clearer ligand detail icons.
Looking Ahead
Nanome v2.2.0 represents a significant milestone in our ongoing mission to deliver intuitive, powerful tools for scientists. A huge thanks to our development team who worked hard across design, implementation, and internal testing to bring this to life. We're excited for you to experience these enhancements and look forward to delivering even more powerful updates soon.
Ready to explore? Request a demo at https://nanome.ai/demo/.
Happy exploring!
The Nanome Team
