title: Toward mobile 3D visualization for structural biologists.
abstract: Technological advances in crystallography have led to the ever-rapidly increasing number of biomolecular structures deposited in public repertoires. This undoubtedly shifts the bottleneck of structural biology research from obtaining high-quality structures to data analysis and interpretation. The recently available glasses-free autostereoscopic laptop offers an unprecedented opportunity to visualize and study 3D structures using a much more affordable, and for the first time, portable device. Together with a gamepad re-programmed for 3D structure controlling, we describe how the gaming technologies can deliver the output 3D images for high-quality viewing, comparable to that of a passive stereoscopic system, and can give the user more control and flexibility than the conventional controlling setup using only a mouse and a keyboard.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom 73170, Thailand. Duangrudee.tan@mahidol.ac.th.
authors.forename: Duangrudee
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tanramluk
authors.forename: Ruj
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Akavipat
authors.forename: Varodom
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Charoensawan
mesh_terms: D003461:Crystallography; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins