OpenMol
Standalone bio-molecular modeling applications with rich functionality are already abundant. Since they are developed as single-user applications, those tools cannot be used for remote collaboration, where users want to perform bio-molecular structural modeling tasks without being in the same place physically. Even though other means of collaboration such as emails or chat messaging exist, they are or not real-time (e.g. e-mail) or do not support a shared experience of graphical objects (e.g. Instant Messaging). On the other hand, the three-dimensional Internet (3D Internet) is an emerging technology for building world-like environments for real-time collaboration.
Therefore, we developed OpenMol, an online collaborative virtual world application for molecular dynamics. To support advanced molecular modeling in OpenMol, we integrated our virtual world application with BALLView, a popular software for molecular modeling and visualization software, developed by Dr. Hildebrandt’s Junior Research Group for Protein-Protein Interactions and Computational Proteomics, Center for Bioinformatics, at Saarland University,
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