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UnityMol prototype for FAIR sharing of molecular‐visualization experiences: from pictures in the cloud to collaborative virtual reality exploration in immersive 3D environments
Author(s) -
Martinez Xavier,
Baaden Marc
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta crystallographica section d
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.374
H-Index - 138
ISSN - 2059-7983
DOI - 10.1107/s2059798321002941
Subject(s) - visualization , variety (cybernetics) , virtual reality , computer science , cloud computing , human–computer interaction , data sharing , data visualization , software , covid-19 , data science , multimedia , world wide web , artificial intelligence , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , programming language , operating system , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Motivated by the current COVID‐19 pandemic, which has spurred a substantial flow of structural data, the use of molecular‐visualization experiences to make these data sets accessible to a broad audience is described. Using a variety of technology vectors related to the cloud, 3D and virtual reality gear, how to share curated visualizations of structural biology, modeling and/or bioinformatics data sets for interactive and collaborative exploration is examined. FAIR is discussed as an overarching principle for sharing such visualizations. Four initial example scenes related to recent COVID‐19 structural data are provided, together with a ready‐to‐use (and share) implementation in the UnityMol software.