Welcome to PV’s documentation!

PV is a WebGL-based viewer for proteins and other biological macromolecules. It aims to be fast and easy to integrate into websites.

Contents:

• Getting started with PV
  • Getting the PV source-code
  • Setting up a small website
• The Viewer
  • Initialization and Configuration
  • Rendering
  • Camera Positioning/Orientation
  • Viewer Events
  • Object Management
• Rendered Molecules
• Drawing Geometric Shapes
• Coloring Molecular Structures
  • Available color operations
  • Opacity
  • Adding a new color operation
  • Color Notations
  • Custom Color Palettes
• Molecular Structures
  • Obtaining and Creating Molecular Structures
  • Creating Subsets of a Molecular Structure
  • Loading Molecular Structures
  • Mol (and MolView)
  • Chain (and ChainView)
  • Residue (and ResidueView)
  • Atom (and AtomView)
  • Bond
• Superposition of structures
• PV Usage Code Samples
  • Display protein together with ligands
  • Display an NMR ensemble
  • Highlight atom under mouse cursor
  • Select atoms/residues using mouse and keyboard
  • Displaying a static label on top of the viewer
  • Displaying a label on an atom
  • Adding custom geometry to the 3D scene
  • Measure distance between two atoms
  • Color structure by custom property
• PV for developers documentation
  • How to Contribute
  • How to release a new version of PV

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page