Cooperation Opportunity: Virtual Reality Molecular Modeling

 Offer for free access to a prototype Virtual Reality Molecular
 Modeling system
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 This is for providing a cooperation opportunity for chemists or
 biochemists who are working on molecular modeling or drug design to
 use the most state-of-the-art Molecular Modeling in Virtual
 Environment technique available today.
 At Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics we have developed a
 virtual environment, RealMol, for interactive molecular modeling and
 molecular dynamics simulation. The CAVE (a highly sophisticated
 five-sided VR stereo projection system) or head mounted display and a
 cyberglove are used for immersive display and interaction with the
 molecular system. A molecular dynamics simulation program (NAMD) is
 linked to the virtual environment to simulate the physical and
 chemical properties of the molecular system in real-time. A high-speed
 network exchanges data between the simulation program and the modeling
 program. This virtual environment provides scientists with a powerful
 tool to study immersively the world of molecules and is very helpful
 in the fields like rational drug design.
 We are looking for scientists who want to solve their real-world
 problem using a virtual environment. Our goal is to evaluate the
 present system and to identify achievements as well as future
 directions of research in this field. If you are interested in working
 with your own data in our CAVE in Darmstadt, Germany, please contact
 us. Currently our program can read molecular coordinate data in PDB
 format, and dynamics simulation trajectories in X-PLOR's DCD
 format. Your participation is free of charge - publication of the
 results is intended, but of course the matter will be treated
 confidential if wished.
 Details about our project can be found at:
 	http://www.igd.fhg.de/www/igd-a4/research/chemie/
 Point of contact:
 Zhuming Ai, Torsten Fröhlich, Helmut Haase
 Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
 Rundeturmstr. 6
 64283 Darmstadt
 Germany
 Fax: +49-6151-155 196
 e-Mail: zhuming(-(at)-)igd.fhg.de