MolViewSpec: a Mol* extension for describing and sharing molecular visualizations

Nucleic Acids Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 6, 2025

Abstract Data visualization is a pivotal component of structural biologist’s arsenal. The Mol* Viewer makes molecular visualizations available to broader audiences via most web browsers. While provides wide range functionality, it has steep learning curve and only JavaScript interface. To enhance the accessibility usability web-based visualization, we introduce MolViewSpec (molstar.org/mol-view-spec), standardized approach for defining that decouples definition complex scenes from their rendering. Scene can include references commonly used structural, volumetric, annotation data formats together with description how should be visualized paired optional annotations specifying colors, labels, measurements, custom 3D geometries. Developed as an open standard, this solution paves way interoperability support across different programming languages viewers, enabling more streamlined, standardized, reproducible visual analyses. freely extension standalone Python package.

Language: Английский

Computational Resources for Molecular Biology 2025

Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 169222 - 169222

Published: May 1, 2025

Language: Английский