MetaMol swMATH ID: 21777 Software Authors: Chavent M., Levy B., Maigret B. Description: MetaMol: High quality visualization of molecular skin surface. Modeling and visualizing molecular surfaces is an important and challenging task in bioinformatics. Such surfaces play an essential role in better understanding the chemical and physical properties of molecules. However, constructing and displaying molecular surfaces requires complex algorithms. In this article we introduce MetaMol, a new program that generates high-quality images in interactive time. In contrast with existing software that discretizes the surface with triangles or grids, our program is based on a GPU accelerated ray-casting algorithm that directly uses the piecewise-defined algebraic equation of the molecular skin surface. As a result, both better performances and higher quality are obtained. Homepage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18571960 Related Software: SIMS; GTEngine; PAFMPB; TMSmesh; PDB2PQR; TetGen; CGAL; ReMESH; Voro++; DelPhi Web Server Cited in: 3 Documents all top 5 Cited by 14 Authors 1 Alexov, Emil 1 Catalano, Chiara Eva 1 Chen, Minxin 1 Cheng, Ho-Lun 1 Colmenares, Jose 1 Decherchi, Sergio 1 Ji, Zhiwei 1 Liu, Tiantian 1 Lu, Benzhuo 1 Lu, Huijuan 1 Rocchia, Walter 1 Spagnuolo, Michela 1 Yan, Ke 1 Zhang, Xin Cited in 3 Serials 1 Journal of Mathematical Biology 1 SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 1 Communications in Computational Physics Cited in 4 Fields 2 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 2 Computer science (68-XX) 2 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 1 Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX) Citations by Year