Visualization of biomolecular structures: State of the art revisited

B Kozlíková, M Krone, M Falk, N Lindow… - Computer Graphics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Structural properties of molecules are of primary concern in many fields. This report provides
a comprehensive overview on techniques that have been developed in the fields of …

Overall energy conversion efficiency of a photosynthetic vesicle

M Sener, J Strumpfer, A Singharoy, CN Hunter… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
The chromatophore of purple bacteria is an intracellular spherical vesicle that exists in
numerous copies in the cell and that efficiently converts sunlight into ATP synthesis …

Perspective on Integrative Simulations of Bioenergetic Domains

A Pirnia, R Maqdisi, S Mittal, M Sener… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bioenergetic processes in cells, such as photosynthesis or respiration, integrate many time
and length scales, which makes the simulation of energy conversion with a mere single level …

Immersive molecular visualization with omnidirectional stereoscopic ray tracing and remote rendering

JE Stone, WR Sherman… - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Immersive molecular visualization provides the viewer with intuitive perception of complex
structures and spatial relationships that are of critical interest to structural biologists. The …

Atomic detail visualization of photosynthetic membranes with GPU-accelerated ray tracing

JE Stone, M Sener, KL Vandivort, A Barragan… - Parallel Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
The cellular process responsible for providing energy for most life on Earth, namely,
photosynthetic light-harvesting, requires the cooperation of hundreds of proteins across an …

Multiscale modeling and cinematic visualization of photosynthetic energy conversion processes from electronic to cell scales

M Sener, S Levy, JE Stone, AJ Christensen… - Parallel computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Conversion of sunlight into chemical energy, namely photosynthesis, is the primary energy
source of life on Earth. A visualization depicting this process, based on multiscale …

Determination of cell doubling times from the return-on-investment time of photosynthetic vesicles based on atomic detail structural models

A Hitchcock, CN Hunter, M Sener - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Cell doubling times of the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides during photosynthetic
growth are determined experimentally and computationally as a function of illumination. For …

Challenges of integrating stochastic dynamics and cryo-electron tomograms in whole-cell simulations

TM Earnest, R Watanabe, JE Stone… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has rapidly emerged as a powerful tool to investigate
the internal, three-dimensional spatial organization of the cell. In parallel, the GPU-based …

High performance molecular visualization: In-situ and parallel rendering with EGL

JE Stone, P Messmer, R Sisneros… - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large scale molecular dynamics simulations produce terabytes of data that is impractical to
transfer to remote facilities. It is therefore necessary to perform visualization tasks in-situ as …

Interactive ray tracing techniques for high-fidelity scientific visualization

JE Stone - Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time …, 2019 - Springer
This chapter describes rendering techniques and implementation considerations when
using ray tracing for interactive scientific and technical visualization. Ray tracing offers a …