NGL Viewer: a web application for molecular visualization
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The NGL Viewer (http://proteinformatics.charite.de/ngl) is a web application for the visualization of macromolecular structures. By fully adopting capabilities of modern web browsers, such as WebGL, for molecular graphics, the viewer can interactively display large molecular complexes and is also unaffected by the retirement of third-party plug-ins like Flash and Java Applets. Generally, the web application offers comprehensive molecular visualization through a graphical user interface so that life scientists can easily access and profit from available structural data. It supports common structural file-formats (e.g. PDB, mmCIF) and a variety of molecular representations (e.g. 'cartoon, spacefill, licorice'). Moreover, the viewer can be embedded in other web sites to provide specialized visualizations of entries in structural databases or results of structure-related calculations.
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The 3D visualization employs NGL Viewer and is highly interactive, allowing users to drag, zoom, pan and spin the structure to thoroughly examine it.
“This 3D visualization, employing NGL Viewer (34,35), is highly interactive, allowing users to drag, zoom, pan and spin the structure to thoroughly examine it.”
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- Authors
- Rose, A. S., & Hildebrand, P. W.
- Affiliations
- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Rose, Alexander S.
- Venue
- Nucleic Acids Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2015-04-29
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- W1
- Pages
- W576-W579
- ISSN
- 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
- 1362-4962
- PMC
- PMC4489237
- OpenAlex
- W2069152576
- Cited by
- 462
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 67 · 2019: 57 · 2018: 80 · 2017: 45 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 18.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nucleic Acids Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (BI 893/8, HI 1502)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Enzyme Structure and Function
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
- Keywords
- NGL viewer, molecular visualization, macromolecular structure, WebGL, web-based visualization, Protein Data Bank, mmCIF, molecular representation, structural database
- MeSH terms
- Computer Graphics, Models, Molecular, Protein Conformation, Software, Internet, Macromolecular Substances
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