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- Introduction to Mol* Video Tutorial Series at PDB-101
- The supplementary material for the publication Visualizing and Analyzing 3D Biomolecular Structures using Mol* at RCSB.org: Influenza A H5N1 Virus Proteome Case Study (2025) Protein Science 34: e70093 provides instructions for recreating most of the Mol* visualizations from the main manuscript, along with additional details where needed.
- Mol* tutorial playlist on YouTube, which includes some short demonstrations taken from the Protein Science publication
- Documentation at RCSB.org
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