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YASARA View - Molecular Graphics for All Devices - from Smartphones to Workstations

Overview
Journal Bioinformatics
Publisher Oxford University Press
Specialty Biology
Date 2014 Jul 6
PMID 24996895
Citations 585
Authors
Elmar Krieger
Gert Vriend
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Abstract

Summary: Today's graphics processing units (GPUs) compose the scene from individual triangles. As about 320 triangles are needed to approximate a single sphere-an atom-in a convincing way, visualizing larger proteins with atomic details requires tens of millions of triangles, far too many for smooth interactive frame rates. We describe a new approach to solve this 'molecular graphics problem', which shares the work between GPU and multiple CPU cores, generates high-quality results with perfectly round spheres, shadows and ambient lighting and requires only OpenGL 1.0 functionality, without any pixel shader Z-buffer access (a feature which is missing in most mobile devices).

Availability And Implementation: YASARA View, a molecular modeling program built around the visualization algorithm described here, is freely available (including commercial use) for Linux, MacOS, Windows and Android (Intel) from www.YASARA.org.

Contact: elmar@yasara.org

Supplementary Information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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