# 4.2 Navigating a 3D Molecular Viewer

> Navigating a 3D Molecular Viewer (Module 4: The Bioinformatician's Toolkit). Key concept: 3D structure visualization. Navigate a structure in three dimensions: rotate, zoom and pan to the view that answers your question.

Navigating a 3D Molecular Viewer (Module 4: The Bioinformatician's Toolkit). Key concept: 3D structure visualization. Navigate a structure in three dimensions: rotate, zoom and pan to the view that answers your question.

- Navigate a structure in three dimensions: rotate, zoom and pan to the view that answers your question
- Switch between cartoon, surface, ball-and-stick and stick, and choose the right one
- Colour by chain, secondary structure, B-factor or hydrophobicity to expose different information
- Select a residue and read its identity, position and properties

## Links

- [Module 4: The Bioinformatician's Toolkit](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4)
- [4.1 Reading a PDB File](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4/1)
- [4.3 Sequence Alignments and BLAST](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4/3)
- [4.4 Evolutionary Conservation and ConSurf](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4/4)
- [4.5 Structure Prediction Landscape](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4/5)
- [The Structural Biologist](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4/capstone)