Real-time Ray Tracing of Complex Molecular Scenes with BALLView and RTfact

Conference:  ISMB/ECCB 2009

Abstract:  Molecular viewing and editing tools are an important part of many applications and processes in structural bioinformatics, computational chemistry, and pharmacy. A particularly important factor is to provide the user with an accurate and informative (3D) spatial representation of molecular structural arrangements. Another important goal of molecular graphics is to create publication-quality images. the method of choice; although it traditionally takes minutes to hours to produce high-quality results. However, recent developments in computer graphics have made real-time ray tracing of complex scenes with high visual quality become a reality