An Integrated Parallel System for Protein Structure Analysis
Kentaro Onizuka, Tamotsu Noguchi, Minoru Saito, Yutaka Akiyama
We developed, as a parallel application program, an integrated
parallel system for protein structure analysis, which is one of the
most important fields in molecular biology. This system, ``PAPIA
(PArallel Protein Information Analysis) System,'' consists of the
database management module for PDB (Brookhaven Protein Data bank, {\it
i.e.} a collection of protein-structure data), Three-dimensional
geometric calculation, statistical analysis, matrix, and 3D graphics
library, together with parallel programming facilities for the
internode data-transfer.
The researchers in the field can easily develop a relatively effective
parallel program for their particular structure analysis purposes, and
can obtain and 3D-visualize the result of analysis quickly using the
libraries provided by PAPIA system.