X3D Scenarios and Case Studies:
Real World Applications - Real World Solutions
X3D has a strong presence internationally and throughout many different industries. From healthcare science to oil exploration, X3D is being deployed for many important as well diverse uses. Our goal is to explore the very multi-faceted nature of X3D from an industry perspective.
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X3D protein ribbon models for the visual analysis of co-evolving amino acids structural relationship
The challenge for statistical modeling of protein data sequences (e.g. for pharmaceutical protein engineering) is understanding how the statistical 2D data relates to protein structures. Existing protein viewers do not provide an easy to use method for adding visual representation of data relationships. The ProteinX3D project was developed to map statistical relationships found in a protein sequence onto 3D models of the protein.
ProteinX3D is a Java program that uses XML data from the worldwide Protein Data Bank and the XPATH to query amino acids coordinates to create XML X3D ribbon model visualizations. The use of XML as a common data language reduced the amount of code needed for data organization and made it straightforward to add graphic elements representing statistical relationships of amino acids coordinates to the X3D structures.