Chameleon: Dynamic Color Mapping for Multi-Scale Structural Biology Models.

ABSTRACT: Visualization of structural biology data uses color to categorize or separate dense structures into particular semantic units. In multiscale models of viruses or bacteria, there are atoms on the finest level of detail, then amino-acids, secondary structures, macromolecules, up to the compartment level and, in all these levels, elements can be visually distinguished by color. However, currently only single scale coloring schemes are utilized that show information for one particular scale only. We present a novel technology which adaptively, based on the current scale level, adjusts the color scheme to depict or distinguish the currently best visible structural information. We treat the color as a visual resource that is distributed given a particular demand. The changes of the color scheme

SUBMITTER: Waldin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5370176 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature