Setup

Nanome is device-agnostic — best experienced in VR or MR, but no headset is required. Jump in from any browser and start exploring molecules right away.

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Which Device?

Download the latest version of Nanome on your XR device. You can always start first on web.

Meta Quest

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Nanome on Meta Quest is a fully immersive molecular visualization experience. Explore proteins, ligands, and drug candidates in 3D with hand tracking and controller support.

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Nanome Classic

The platform that put molecular visualization in a headset. Compatible with all major XR hardware.

Windows 10+

PCVR

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Steam Meta Store Vive Business Store

Minimum Specs

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel i7
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 1070
Storage: 256 GB

Release Notes & Prior Versions

Important: Previous V2 releases are intended for enterprise and commercial deployments where a specific, matching version of the Workspace API and MARA has been deployed. If you are not running a dedicated deployment with a version-matched backend, please use the latest release at the top of this page.

New Features and Improvements

2.6.0:
Scene Recording & Playback: record scenes (including their annotations) and play them back, including on the web viewer.
Residue Editor: one built-in tool for both residue mutations and rotamer (side-chain) edits.
MARA Tools: run MARA cheminformatics tools on a whole entry, a component, or your current selection right from the in-headset sidebar (VR + desktop); results and any molecular outputs come back as new structures without changing what you sent.
Rich Annotations: add custom text and sound annotations, with URLs supported inside text; annotations carry through scene duplication and playback.
Ligand Table View Presets: save and switch ligand-table layouts per Project, filter by numeric rating, and toggle a 3D tag per ligand.
Shared Selection: opt-in sharing of your selection with collaborators in your avatar color; following a user now shows their selection too.
XR Keyboard v2: real-time dictation and clipboard support in the in-headset keyboard.
Interactions: halogen-π interactions, ligand↔protein-only filtering, highlighting that networks across users, and show/hide toggles for pinned interaction labels.
Multi-model & trajectory: load multi-model MAE files, atom-count-aware frame limits, smoother large-trajectory playback, and per-frame surfaces when stepping through frames.
More new tools: Export to SMILES, TM-align protein–protein alignment, "Set as ligand" designation, direct distance filters, a redesigned color picker, chain-instance coloring, an in-app server switch (private cloud / on-prem), and a Loading Report that flags and auto-resolves fixable load issues.
Pointer highlight: flash a highlight around your pointer that broadcasts to collaborators so they can see where you're pointing.
Web App: sequence menu, multi-protein structure alignment, image export, scene-playback controls, .pdbqt loading, touch input for tablets and phones, Org role management, and structures now render visible on load. Viewers can step through models and make selections.
2.6.1:
Rotamer panel: the residue list appears immediately and computes hydrogen-bond and clash counts in the background, replacing a wait measured at over ten seconds. Columns are sortable, and the counts are now correct.
Compressed file loading: support for .gz and .maegz files.
Water hydrogen bonds: a crystallographic water deposited without explicit hydrogens now accepts hydrogen bonds, including from protein donors, filling in solvent networks around a site. H2O and D2O are recognized as solvent.
Ligand alignment: a substitution or bond-order change no longer collapses the alignment onto a partial scaffold, and poses are ranked by matched atoms, then element agreement, then RMSD.
Report a Problem: send a bug report from the right sidebar without leaving your session. Each report carries a screenshot of your view, your account details, your workspace and scene names and contents. Disabled for on-prem deployments.
Image capture up to 8192 px on the long edge on desktop and in the web viewer, double the previous limit.
Selection filters: filters built from an atom selection group by residue, chain, and model, and a sequence-menu selection now resolves to the highest-occupancy alternate location.
Cross-entry export filters: one filter can span multiple entries, so a single rule applies across the whole workspace in one export.
Scene recording countdown: the framing brackets follow your view while the timer runs, then anchor in world space at zero, so the shot holds that framing while you look around freely.
Clearer chemistry errors: minimization and formal-charge failures report the underlying reason instead of failing silently, and one error no longer disables minimization for the session.
Level of detail while editing: editable models now participate in the level-of-detail budget introduced in 2.6.0, instead of only consuming it.
Web viewer: component selection can be driven from the surrounding web application.
More small improvements: extract and duplicate to entry now confirm first and set substructures, and saving a ligand view preset over an existing name offers to replace it.

Optimizations and Fixes

2.6.0:
Rebuilt real-time collaboration networking: replaced Photon with a custom in-house networking stack for more reliable multi-user sessions. Foundational and invisible by design, it underpins all live collaboration going forward.
Large workspaces: level-of-detail rendering, a dynamic-resolution spatial grid, and faster large-molecule loading, with rendering improvements for Quest and Android.
Surfaces: surface and ESP computation now runs asynchronously in the background so it no longer stalls the session, plus a faster surface protocol and correct surfaces for disconnected atoms (waters, ions).
Networking efficiency: more efficient payload compression for large structures.
Network health: live high-ping indicators and better connection-loss recovery in both XR and web.
Performance safeguards: the load manager that hides very heavy structures to protect framerate now correctly counts passthrough and editable-model rendering against its budget.
Loading: cancellable structure loading with a progress bar, and a fix for loads that stalled on unknown workspaces.
Stability: eliminated multiple API and main-thread freezes (selection builder, menu scroll, workspace change) and cleaned up connection, token, and inter-entry handling.
Web App reliability: fixed the ~30-second disconnect/rejoin loop that occurred while a tab was backgrounded.
60+ additional fixes across freezes, UI polish, workspace management, and rendering, plus a higher scene limit (now 50 per workspace) and faster, more accurate ring detection.
2.6.1:
Exports of a selection: an export from an entry holding more than one model scopes atoms to the model they came from.
Smoother across platforms: more work moved off the main thread in the rotamer, MARA tools, annotation, playback, collaboration, and menu paths.
Smaller, faster web viewer: the build drops roughly 11 MB and starts up considerably faster.
Structure editing: corrected formal charge and valence handling in the Builder, correct fragment render quality, valence limits enforced on both atoms of every new bond, and minimization that survives adding a functional group.
Ligands: column layouts no longer reset, model versions no longer double-increment on a single edit, and ligand property annotations survive a Builder edit.
Scenes and recording: playback restores the correct camera position, saved recordings load again, scenes survive a drag-scroll reorder, and MARA tool inputs reset on a scene change.
Away handling: removing the headset or backgrounding the app ends the session cleanly after two minutes and reconnects immediately on return, with the microphone stopping as soon as you are away.
UI polish: close nested popups when clicked outside, fix multiline placeholders alignment, annotation whitespace is trimmed, grab instructions reset after logout, and view-only users no longer see editing controls.
A dozen further fixes across rotamer scrolling, 3D selection restore, web client stability, session cleanup, task concurrency, and crash guards in hull generation, menus, collaboration, and atom and bond deletion.