NAVRNA: visualization - exploration - editing of RNA

  • Authors:
  • Gilles Bailly;Laurence Nigay;David Auber

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex, France;University of Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex, France;University of Bordeaux, Talence, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we describe NAVRNA, an interactive system that enables biologists or researchers in bioinformatics to visualize, explore and edit RNA molecules. The key characteristics of NAVRNA are (1) to exploit multiple display surfaces (2) to enable the manipulation of both the 2D view of RNA called secondary structure, as well as the 3D view of RNA called tertiary structure while maintaining consistency between the two views, (3) to enable co-located synchronous collaborative manipulation of the RNA structures and (4) to provide two-handed interaction techniques for navigating and editing RNA structures and in particular a two-handed technique for bending the structure.