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Parallel Generation and Visualization of Bacterial Genome Structures
Author(s) -
Klein T.,
Mindek P.,
Autin L.,
Goodsell D. S.,
Olson A. J.,
Gröller E. M.,
Viola I.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/cgf.13816
Subject(s) - computer science , visualization , exploit , parallelism (grammar) , process (computing) , simple (philosophy) , theoretical computer science , parallel computing , distributed computing , artificial intelligence , programming language , philosophy , computer security , epistemology
Visualization of biological mesoscale models provides a glimpse at the inner workings of living cells. One of the most complex components of these models is DNA, which is of fundamental importance for all forms of life. Modeling the 3D structure of genomes has previously only been attempted by sequential approaches. We present the first parallel approach for the instant construction of DNA structures. Traditionally, such structures are generated with algorithms like random walk, which have inherent sequential constraints. These algorithms result in the desired structure, are easy to control, and simple to formulate. Their execution, however, is very time‐consuming, as they are not designed to exploit parallelism. We propose an approach to parallelize the process, facilitating an implementation on the GPU.