Stalk: An Interactive System for Virtual Molecular Docking
IEEE Computational Science & Engineering
Viewing Geometric Protein Structures From Inside a CAVE
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
User needs analysis to design a 3D multimodal protein-docking interface
3DUI '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces
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Proteins are large molecules that are vital for all living organisms and they are essential components of many industrial products. The process of binding a protein to another is called protein-protein docking. Many automated algorithms have been proposed to find docking configurations that might yield promising protein-protein complexes. However, these automated methods are likely to come up with false positives and have high computational costs. Consequently, Virtual Reality has been used to take advantage of user's experience on the problem; and proposed applications can be further improved. Haptic devices have been used for molecular docking problems; but they are inappropriate for protein-protein docking due to their workspace limitations. Instead of haptic rendering of forces, we provide a novel visual feedback for simulating physicochemical forces of proteins. We propose an interactive 3D application, DockPro, which enables domain experts to come up with dockings of protein-protein couples by using magnetic trackers and gloves in front of a large display.