How to Cite NanoVer
NanoVer is forked from Narupa. If you find it useful, please cite the following paper:
APA
O’Connor, M. B., Bennie, S. J., Deeks, H. M., Jamieson-Binnie, A., Jones, A. J., Shannon, R. J., Walters, R., Mitchell, T. J., Mulholland, A. J. & Glowacki, D. R. (2019). Interactive molecular dynamics in virtual reality from quantum chemistry to drug binding: An open-source multi-person framework. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 150 (22). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5092590
.bib
@article{oconnor_interactive_2019,
author = {
O'Connor, Michael B. and Bennie, Simon J. and Deeks, Helen M. and
Jamieson-Binnie, Alexander and Jones, Alex J. and Shannon, Robin J. and
Walters, Rebecca and Mitchell, Thomas J. and Mulholland, Adrian J. and
Glowacki, David R.
},
title = {
Interactive molecular dynamics in virtual reality from quantum chemistry
to drug binding: {An} open-source multi-person framework
},
journal = {The Journal of Chemical Physics},
volume = {150},
number = {22},
pages = {220901},
year = {2019},
month = {06},
abstract = {
As molecular scientists have made progress in their ability to engineer
nanoscale molecular structure, we face new challenges in our ability to
engineer molecular dynamics (MD) and flexibility. Dynamics at the
molecular scale differs from the familiar mechanics of everyday objects
because it involves a complicated, highly correlated, and three-dimensional
many-body dynamical choreography which is often nonintuitive even for
highly trained researchers. We recently described how interactive molecular
dynamics in virtual reality (iMD-VR) can help to meet this challenge,
enabling researchers to manipulate real-time MD simulations of flexible
structures in 3D. In this article, we outline various efforts to extend
immersive technologies to the molecular sciences, and we introduce
"Narupa," a flexible, open-source, multiperson iMD-VR software framework
which enables groups of researchers to simultaneously cohabit real-time
simulation environments to interactively visualize and manipulate the
dynamics of molecular structures with atomic-level precision. We outline
several application domains where iMD-VR is facilitating research,
communication, and creative approaches within the molecular sciences,
including training machines to learn potential energy functions,
biomolecular conformational sampling, protein-ligand binding, reaction
discovery using "on-the-fly" quantum chemistry, and transport dynamics
in materials. We touch on iMD-VR's various cognitive and perceptual
affordances and outline how these provide research insight for molecular
systems. By synergistically combining human spatial reasoning and design
insight with computational automation, technologies such as iMD-VR have
the potential to improve our ability to understand, engineer, and
communicate microscopic dynamical behavior, offering the potential to
usher in a new paradigm for engineering molecules and nano-architectures.
},
issn = {0021-9606},
doi = {10.1063/1.5092590/197661},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5092590}
}