title: GridMol: a grid application for molecular modeling and visualization.
abstract: In this paper we present GridMol, an extensible tool for building a high performance computational chemistry platform in the grid environment. GridMol provides computational chemists one-stop service for molecular modeling, scientific computing and molecular information visualization. GridMol is not only a visualization and modeling tool but also simplifies control of remote Grid software that can access high performance computing resources. GridMol has been successfully integrated into China National Grid, the most powerful Chinese Grid Computing platform. In Section "Grid computing" of this paper, a computing example is given to show the availability and efficiency of GridMol. GridMol is coded using Java and Java3D for portability and cross-platform compatibility (Windows, Linux, MacOS X and UNIX). GridMol can run not only as a stand-alone application, but also as an applet through web browsers. In this paper, we will present the techniques for molecular visualization, molecular modeling and grid computing. GridMol is available free of charge under the GNU Public License (GPL) from our website: http://www.sccas.cn/~syh/GridMol/index.html.
authors.affiliation: Super Computing Center, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China. syh@sccas.cn
authors.forename: Yanhua
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Zhonghua
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Zhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Xuebin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chi
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins