Mini Map Aide

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The following article was written by Jonathan Cooper, Professor Emeritus at University College, London. (Eric Martz simply put it into Proteopedia, but had no authorship role.)

Mini Map Aide is a mobile phone website application for visualizing atomic models and electron density maps. It emulates a small number of the functions of FRODO. It is coded in Lua, simply because that was the language that was stored in my head at the time of deciding to do this. Mini Map Aide uses a JavaScript virtual machine Fengari so that it runs as a web-browser script and can use various javascript libraries such as math.js and, most importantly, the 3D graphics library three.js. Quoting from Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia):

Three.js is a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface (API) used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL.

See Also

• Molecular visualization in the 1980s where FRODO is described.
• History of Macromolecular Visualization
• X-ray crystallography
• Electron density maps

Content Attribution

This article was written by Jonathan Cooper, Professor Emeritus at University College, London. (Eric Martz simply put it into Proteopedia, but had no authorship role.)