Exploring genomes with a game engine

Author

Shepherd, Jeremiah J. ; Lingxi Zhou ; Yan Zhang ; Jim Zheng ; Jijun Tang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

18-21 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

30

Abstract

Studying genomes continues to be beneficial for evolutionary discover, and prognosticating/diagnosing many genetic disorders and diseases. Most of the these studies have used systems that view the DNA in a linear structure, but having this information is only a small part of fully understanding what they can reveal. Visualizing genomes in real time 3D can give researchers more insight, but this is fraught with hardware limitations. Each element contains vast amounts of information that cannot be processed at once. However, by using a game engine and sophisticated video game visualization techniques, we were able to construct a multi-platform real-time 3D genome viewer.

Keywords

DNA; bioinformatics; computer games; data visualisation; diseases; genomics; medical computing; medical disorders; molecular biophysics; molecular configurations; disease diagnosis; disease prognosis; evolutionary discovery; game engine; genetic disorder diagnosis; genetic disorder prognosis; genome exploration; hardware limitations; linear DNA structure; multiplatform real-time 3D genome viewer; real time 3D genome visualization; video game visualization techniques; Biological cells; Data visualization; Engines; Games; Genomics; Octrees; Three-dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIBM.2013.6732585

Filename

6732585