The first Danceroom Spectroscopy scientific research paper has been made public. Residents David Glowacki, Phill Tew and Tom Mitchell are among the authors. David, Project Leader, has just written a blog about it:

"It’s been a long time coming… but the first dS scientific research paper has been published as part of the Faraday Discussion Volume 169, which took place in Nottingham, UK in early May. The paper, entitled “A GPU-accelerated immersive audio-visual framework for interaction with molecular dynamics using consumer depth sensors”, is available for open-access download at this weblink. One of the paper’s highlights – and something which I’m really excited about – is the extension of dS to allow users to interactively chaperone the dynamics of small proteins, achieved through a software interface with the OpenMM hardware-accelerated force field library maintained at Stanford University. In some preliminary user studies, we observed that users were able to accelerate some simple protein conformational changes by nearly a factor of 10,000 compared to standard blind search MD approaches! Here’s a video showing the interactive protein dynamics in action:"




Human Chaperones from danceroom Spectroscopy on Vimeo.