Paper Info
Title
FPV: fast protein visualization using Java 3D.
Abstract
Many tools have been developed to visualize protein structures. Tools that have been based on Java 3D((TM)) are compatible among different systems and they can be run remotely through web browsers. However, using Java 3D for visualization has some performance issues with it. The primary concerns about molecular visualization tools based on Java 3D are in their being slow in terms of interaction speed and in their inability to load large molecules. This behavior is especially apparent when the number of atoms to be displayed is huge, or when several proteins are to be displayed simultaneously for comparison.In this paper we present techniques for organizing a Java 3D scene graph to tackle these problems. We have developed a protein visualization system based on Java 3D and these techniques. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method by comparing the visualization component of our system with two other Java 3D based molecular visualization tools. In particular, for van der Waals display mode, with the efficient organization of the scene graph, we could achieve up to eight times improvement in rendering speed and could load molecules three times as large as the previous systems could.EPV is freely available with source code at the following URL: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~tcan/fpv/
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1145/952532.952554
Bioinformatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
large molecule,times improvement,molecular visualization tool,different system,previous system,visualization component,interaction speed,fast protein visualization,protein visualization system,scene graph,efficient organization
Conference
19
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
8
1367-4803
1-58113-624-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
1.18
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tolga Can126816.39
Yujun Wang251.18
Yuan-Fang Wang3835137.72
Jianwen SU43310672.30