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TITLE:
"Automated Visualization (both static and dynamic) of Subcellular
Environments: Step One"
SPEAKER:
Graham T. Johnson ,
TIME: Thursday Apr. 26, 2007 at 4:00 PM
PLACE: George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101)
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM in the lounge.
All interested persons are cordially invited to attend.
How might a Golgi apparatus relate to Artificial Intelligence, Hollywood, Vesalius and Newton? Can rigid body dynamics couple with simple distribution functions to help us flesh out unexplored voids that hide between microscopic resolutions and crystallographic scales?
We plan to use commercial software to automate the 3D modeling and ultimately the animated simulation of sample molecular realms using collections of varied data (protein database files, EM averaged maps, tomography maps, local protein concentrations, conformation ratios, etc.) The software plug-ins we develop can export these models into more universal file formats, allowing clients to create visualizations in the form of static images, animations, plastic models, and interactive viewers for use in data analysis, peer communication, education, and outreach.
We will utilize techniques of illustration to suppress visual noise, clarify time dilation and thus summarize an event while quietly presenting/retaining the hurricane of underlying interactions. Movies can thus be created from the modules to make the process pedagogically useful in classroom. Simultaneously, underlying data will be retained in a quantifiably accessible manner for use in the virtual lab.
Example (Watercolor illustration by David Goodsell with 3D rendered inset by Arthur Olson, Molecular Graphics Lab, The Scripps Research Institute.)
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