dsh-molecule-viewer

Opening an external viewer every time you want to inspect a PDB file in the middle of a deep conversation breaks your flow and wastes context. dsh-molecule-viewer brings 3D structure visualization directly into DSH chat sessions: hand a molecule file path or raw structure data to the model, and an interactive 3D viewer renders right in the interface, with rotation, zoom, cartoon / stick / line / sphere style switching, and coloring adjustments, all in-browser, without leaving the conversation.

The plugin covers PDB, SDF, MOL2, and MOL, the four common formats that carry 3D coordinates. Its path-first design naturally fits hybrid development environments: Windows drive letters, WSL mount paths, and home-directory shorthand are all recognized and converted automatically, with the server reading the file directly for fast response. 3Dmol.js is bundled into the client at build time, so no CDN requests are made at runtime, keeping things smooth offline, on intranets, and under strict browser privacy policies. Viewer payloads persist with session events, so reloading history after a restart renders the structure as before.

Designed for computational chemistry, drug discovery, structural biology, and any workflow where inspecting 3D molecular geometry is a frequent in-chat task. Whether you want to preview a docking ligand conformation the moment a model generates it, or paste an SDF snippet to check substituent orientation, a single natural-language sentence does the job, eliminating the friction of bouncing between multiple tools.