iCn3D was initially developed as a web-based 3D molecular viewer. It then evolved from
visualization into a full-featured interactive structural analysis software. It became a
collaborative research instrument through the sharing of permanent, shortened URLs that
encapsulate not only annotated visual molecular scenes, but also all underlying data and
analysis scripts in a FAIR manner. More recently, with the growth of structural databases, the
need to analyze large structural datasets systematically led us to use Python scripts and …