This is kind of interesting, upon my internet travels I recently came across BioBlender, a 3D Biological Visualization application built upon Blender 3D Open Source. BioBlender will allow you to import and interactively view and manipulate proteins and protein sequences. I don’t know a lot about all that stuff, however, it is a great way to play with and create 3D biological structures really quickly! Check out more information and download BioBlender here.

“BioBlender also includes a dedicated visual code to represent important features of their surface (Electric and lipophilic potential) on the protein itself, using photo realistic rendering and special effects.”

BioBlender is a software extension of Blender 2.5[2], an interface for biological visualization that allows the user to import and interactively view and manipulate proteins. It was developed and is maintained by the Scientific Visualization Unit of the CNR of Italy in Pisa, with the help and contribution of several members of the Blender community. Ma- terial, scenes, publications and other relevant infor- mation can be found at www.BioBlender.net and/or www.scivis.ifc.cnr.it.