3D molecular interactive modeling

Abstract

Initially, genomic sequences have been known by their linear form. However, they have also a three-dimensional structure, which can be useful for genomes analysis. This 3D structure representation brings a new point of view for the sequences analysis. Therefore, several studies have described the design of software for 3D molecular visualization. The search that we have carried out enabled us to see the various modeling systems and their principles, and we have to classify them in two great families: the class of the visualization systems and the class of 3D interactive modeling. Each one of these classes is divided into two common sub-classes: systems based prediction and systems based 3D data.