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Nucleic Acids Research 2005 33(Web Server Issue):W705-W709; doi:10.1093/nar/gki438
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AISMIG—an interactive server-side molecule image generator

Andreas Bohne-Lang, Wolf-Dieter Groch1 and René Ranzinger*

German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Central Spectroscopy—Molecular Modeling Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany 1University of Applied Sciences, Department of Computer Science Schöfferstr. 8b, D-64295 Darmstadt, Germany

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +49 6221 42 4670; Fax: +49 6221 42 2995; Email: r.ranzinger{at}dkfz-heidelberg.de

Received February 13, 2005. Revised March 19, 2005. Accepted March 28, 2005.

Using a web browser without additional software and generating interactive high quality and high resolution images of bio-molecules is no longer a problem. Interactive visualization of 3D molecule structures by Internet browsers normally is not possible without additional software and the disadvantage of browser-based structure images (e.g. by a Java applet) is their low resolution. Scientists who want to generate 3D molecular images with high quality and high resolution (e.g. for publications or to render a molecule for a poster) therefore require separately installed software that is often not easy to use. The alternative concept is an interactive server-side rendering application that can be interfaced with any web browser. Thus it combines the advantage of the web application with the high-end rendering of a raytracer. This article addresses users who want to generate high quality images from molecular structures and do not have software installed locally for structure visualization. Often people do not have a structure viewer, such as RasMol or Chime (or even Java) installed locally but want to visualize a molecule structure interactively. AISMIG (An Interactive Server-side Molecule Image Generator) is a web service that provides a visualization of molecule structures in such cases. AISMIG-URL: http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/aismig/.


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