A physics-grade atomistic workbench. A triclinic crystal and molecule builder, a caching modifier pipeline, professional renderers, and curated open datasets — in a single inspector, running in your browser or in Aurora's cloud.
Aurora Nano Studio is in active preview. Pilot licenses are open to academic and industry partners.
Aurora Nano isn't a viewer with a chemistry theme. It's an atomistic workbench built around the actual crystallography and the actual analyses engineers reach for.
Triclinic cells with the full 7 crystal systems and 14 Bravais lattices. Pearson symbols, primitive ↔ conventional toggling, supercell repeat, swap axes, stretch, wrap, and a Brillouin-zone viewer — every parameter live in the inspector.
Molecule and crystal builder with a curated template library, drag-and-drop file import, and a live Crystallography Open Database search wired straight into the catalog. Snapshot v3 captures camera, selection, and measurements.
Coordination, RDF, Voronoi, common-neighbor analysis, dislocations, Wigner-Seitz, interface relaxation, powder diffraction, Madelung potentials, hydrogen bonds, bond-valence sums, magnetic mCIF — chained, cached, reproducible.
Cordero covalent radii and Pauling electronegativity classify ionic, metallic, covalent, and hydrogen bonds. Per-pair overrides, geometric bond orders, and boundary-aware rendering (internal / both / external).
Unified trajectory import, playback with keyframe tracks, viewport recorder capture, and snapshot v3 for camera, selection, and measurements.
Powder diffraction, Madelung potentials, magnetic mCIF, hydrogen-bond detection, bond-valence sums, and pipeline telemetry — all in the same inspector.
Ball-and-stick, polyhedra, dot surface, isosurface, vector fields, lattice planes, clip planes — plus an instanced fallback that scales past 50k atoms.
XYZ, mmCIF, PDB, GRO, LAMMPS, DUMP, POSCAR, mCIF — plus writers for glTF, VRML, M3D, JSON bond graphs, and Python script export.
Per-modifier presets, visualization presets, an appearance / lighting / fog dialog, and instrumented pipeline runs to keep pilots honest.
A rebranded, deeply integrated port of a best-in-class molecular renderer, dressed in the Aurora palette and wired into the Nano inspector. Deep-linking, IndexedDB persistence, idle-parked WebGL, and a leak-audited runtime — every session round-trips cleanly.
Midnight, Dusk, Ice, and Paper backgrounds paired with Spacefill, B-factor putty, Chain rainbow, Hydrophobicity, and AF pLDDT confidence rendering.
Sticky chain headers, active-residue autoscroll, and font-size controls. Click a residue to focus the 3D canvas; click in 3D to jump the sequence.
RCSB-style annotation tracks — helix, sheet, binding, disulfide, domain — linked bidirectionally to the 3D canvas so a click on a track focuses the atoms.
Density maps stream from EMDB with LOD, so 200 MB EM maps open without stalling the tab. Isosurface, slab, and clip planes work the same way.
pLDDT-colored predicted structures resolve straight from the AlphaFold API, with per-residue confidence chips wired into the sequence panel.
Pairwise superposition, binding-site presets, and validation overlays — ported from the upstream engine and dressed in the Aurora palette.
The Nano library ships bundled with curated open datasets. Every entry carries provenance and a proper citation — never a scraped placeholder. Search, filter, and pull them into the studio.
A resumable ingest pipeline mirrors the open corpora into the Nano library — searchable, faceted, and one click to the Bio Viewer.
Every entry ships with provenance (RCSB / AlphaFold identifier), optional density map (EMDB), and typed metadata for search and filtering. The corpus refreshes on a resumable pipeline — no silent gaps between runs.
Open the Bio libraryAurora Nano loads any symmetry consistent with the International Tables for Crystallography, Vol. A. Origin choice, cell setting, Hall / Hermann–Mauguin symbols, and Wyckoff sites round-trip through mmCIF and POSCAR without silent renumbering.
Tile shade tracks the crystal system: triclinic → cubic. Click any tile for the Hermann–Mauguin symbol and a link to the Bilbao Crystallographic Server. Every group is reachable from the crystal builder, the mmCIF loader, and the modifier pipeline.
Studios never import backends directly. A resolver picks the right one — you don't rewrite anything.
Fast operations run entirely in the tab. Zero network, zero queue. Everything you need to build, inspect, and analyze up to ~50k atoms.
Heavier jobs go to Aurora's cloud compute with region pinning for pilots. Same API — no forks, no rewrites, no config drift.
Two frames from a working session. No compositing, no post — the Aurora Bio Viewer renders like this by default, on the same WebGL context the rest of Nano Studio shares.
Figure 1: Aurora Bio Viewer rendering PDB 27FM (glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, UniProt P69905) with hybrid cartoon + ball-and-stick representations, live State Tree, sequence-to-3D selection sync and GPU screen-space effects.
P69905 · Assembly 1 · 4 chains · water & ion shells resolved
Cartoon and ball-and-stick are hybridised on the same scene: the ribbon backbone stays legible while the active site is expanded into full atomic detail with hydrogen bonds drawn as dashed measurements. Screen-space illumination, ambient occlusion and depth-of-field are computed live on the GPU — no offline render pass.
The State Tree on the left is the actual scene graph. Every representation — Cartoon, Ball&Stick, Water, Ion, Focus, Non-covalent, Unit Cell — is a first-class node you can toggle, isolate, or export. The residue strip above the canvas stays in sync with the 3D selection in both directions.
Figure 2: Aurora Bio Viewer with PDB 1EHZ transfer RNA loaded via the unified Home panel, exposing PDB, AlphaFold, EMDB density, trajectory and Remote-States loaders in a single scene graph.
RNA · 76 residues · nucleic backbone + base pairs
One Home panel talks to every provider. PDB and AlphaFold IDs, EMDB density maps, local files, and molecular dynamics trajectories all land in the same scene graph — no format switching, no separate viewers, no downloads round-tripping through the operating system.
Remote States are curated scenes we ship with the workspace: Zika + EM, P-450 Superposition & Validation, NPC, and more — each one a deep-linkable session you can open, remix, and save back to the cloud with one click.
Figure 3: Aurora Bio Library — 29 curated structures indexed over a 14,574-entry PDB corpus with category and size facets, search, and direct one-click open into the Bio Viewer or Bio Full.
29 curated · 14,574 in corpus · faceted · one-click open
The Bio Library sits at the front of every session. Twenty-nine hand-picked reference structures — Crambin, Ubiquitin, Hemoglobin, Myoglobin, GFP, Zinc-finger, Lysozyme — give you something to click the first time you open the workspace, each with a real thumbnail, a written description, and a jump directly into the Bio Viewer or Bio Full.
Behind them, the full RCSB corpus is indexed in Aurora Cloud and searchable in the same panel — filter by Proteins, Enzymes, Membrane, Nucleic acids, Complexes, Viral, Ribosomes, De novo, and by size (S · M · L · XL). Every card is a deep-link — the same URL opens the same scene on any device.
A per-tab WebGL context that parks when idle, a leak watcher that double-samples with idle callbacks, and an in-app diagnostics panel (Ctrl+Alt+D) that exports a full debug bundle when a pilot needs one.
Click any tile to expand. The frames are rendered from the same tokens the studio uses — not stock imagery.
Read the full Nano Studio whitepaper for the architecture, the compute-layer contract, validation cases, and the roadmap we're shipping to pilot partners.
@techreport{aurora_nano_2026,
title = {Aurora Nano Studio —
Technical White Paper},
author = {Aurora Simulations},
year = {2026},
url = {https://simaurora.com/whitepaper}
}Aurora Nano is in preview. Sign in to open the studio, or reach out for a pilot license.