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Molecular Animation

Molecular Animation is an open-source Python and Blender pipeline from Yangyi Liu that turns a written brief and a PDB, mmCIF or AlphaFold structure into a labelled science animation as MP4 or WebM.

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Checked 2026-11-12

Molecular Animation is an open-source Python and Blender pipeline from Yangyi Liu that turns a written brief and a PDB, mmCIF or AlphaFold structure into a labelled science animation as MP4 or WebM. It is built to be driven by an agent: the README describes Claude Code working through Blender MCP, an AGENTS.md guide and a /new-film skill, and it also works by hand. The pipeline lints each shot against Blender 5 API names before Blender starts, and a doctor command checks Blender, the GPU, ffmpeg and the Python packages. The licence is Apache 2.0 and the repository was last pushed on 24 October 2026. It suits researchers and science communicators who want repeatable, checked figures instead of hand-built scenes. One limit: it is a whole project rather than a single skill file, and it needs Blender 5 with the MCP add-on running. We have not run it ourselves for this note.

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How do I install Molecular Animation?

Run this command: git clone https://github.com/AmadeusBio-ai/Molecular_Animation.git && cd Molecular_Animation && pip install -r requirements.txt. The install box on this page has the command for each agent it works with.

Is Molecular Animation free?

It is published under the Apache 2.0 licence.

Who maintains Molecular Animation?

It is maintained by Yangyi Liu. The code is at github.com/AmadeusBio-ai/Molecular_Animation.

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