Tutorials

General tutorials

• How to build an external application using BALL with CMake
• Scripting BALL with python

BALL Hacking

Useful tutorials for everyone planning to work on the BALL library itself

• Creating a Python binding
• Writing BALL Plugins

Working with BALLView

• Functionality for handling proteins
• Functionality for handling ligands
• Download from PDB
• Create Peptides from sequence
• Get molecules from PubChem
• Generate molecules from SMILES
• Use the expression bar
• Perform a MD Simulation
• Perform an Energy Minimization
• Volume Visualization
• Find and Visualize a Binding Pocket
• Create a high quality ray traced image of your molecular scene
• Switch between different views
• Use BALLView in stereoscopic mode
• Deduce bond orders of a ligand
• Run a python script in BALLView
• Create Clipping planes in BALLView
• Usage of bvp files (BALLView projects)

BALLView @ school

• Einführungstutorial für Lehrer

Small tutorials for getting started with BALL programming

This page summarizes some of the snippets found in the CodeLibrary which are useful for performing standard tasks in BALL.

• How can I determine the element type of an atom?