Web Analytics Made Easy - Statcounter
Skip to content

November 2025#

Welcome to the seventh edition of our monthly newsletter! We’re here to keep you in the loop with the latest SAMSON updates, new features, and what’s coming next.

As always, make sure your SAMSON installation is up to date to benefit from the newest improvements (from the menu: Interface > Update SAMSON, or simply with the installer).

Extension Updates - November Highlights#

We’ve rolled out several useful enhancements across SAMSON Extensions this month:

  • Interaction Designer: You can now rotate or flip interaction diagrams. In addition, diagram colors now match the default SAMSON atom colors using the Corey–Pauling–Koltun (CPK) scheme. Check out this short video to see it in action:

  • GROMACS Wizard: You can now search advanced parameters by name and description. We also added direct links to the relevant sections of the GROMACS manual for MD parameters.

  • OpenMM Wizard: Updated (including new parameters) to reflect new features in OpenMM v8.4.0.
  • Node Specification Language (NSL): New NSL attributes for D-amino acids (residue.dAminoAcid) and crystallization buffer agents (node.category crystallizationBufferAgent).
  • Structure validation: Expanded aliases for non-standard amino acid residues, improving identification when importing structures.

Minor improvements#

We also shipped a number of smaller refinements and fixes, including updates in AutoDock Vina Extended, PDB trajectory loader, various importers, and other extensions.

Documentation updates#

New and updated tutorials on SAMSON and SAMSON Extensions:

You can also find many focused SAMSON tips on the blog!

Coming next#

We will introduce a few major developments soon, and we can’t wait to announce them. Meanwhile, if you have feature requests or feedback, please let us know!

Thank you for being part of our growing community!