An integrated protein structure analysis system PAPIA

Kentaro Onizuka, Tamotsu Noguchi

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, 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.

Real World Computing Partnership