Visual Analysis of Biomolecular Cavities: State of the Art

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 527-551

  Krone, M ^a   Kozlikova B ^b   Lindow, N ^c   Baaden, M ^d   Baum, D ^c   Parulek, J ^e   Hege, H C ^c   Viola, I ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^d France   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); I.3.5 Computer Graphics : Computational Geometry and Object Modeling Boundary representations; J.3 Computer Applications : Life and Medical Sciences Biology and genetics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; VISUALIZATION;

ANALYTICAL REASONING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY AND OBJECT MODELING; DESCRIPTORS; LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR VISUALIZATION; SPATIAL VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84978955214     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12928     Document Type: Review

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