Update, 05 October 2010:
Google has recently depreciated its O3D plugin in favor of WebGL.
I’ve updated the rendering engine, but you may need to use the Firefox 4 beta or Google Chrome development build.
This is a prototype elastic lists inspired viewer of amino acid properties.
Click on bars to drill down on the data and display matching residues.
The data are drawn from 50 single domain proteins.
Histograms are calculated on the fly via map reduce queries.
Residue depths are the minimum distance from the alpha carbon to the molecular surface.
The Voronoi cell of a residue consists of all space closer to that residue’s alpha carbon than to any other.
Surface residues with unbounded cell volume (> 400 Å3) are not shown.
The blob of pixels in the centre is a Ramachandran plot.
Comments?
I would love to hear your suggestions about this project; email me at
If you think computational perspectives on protein structure or related information visualizations are cool, you may be interested in my undergraduate thesis.