Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Visualization is one of the most active areas of R&D in bioinformatics. One reason that visualization
technology is so advanced today is the huge investment over the past several decades in the area by
the military establishment. Consider that the development of the first bitmapped screens were
supported by the military because the screens could track the trajectory of missiles more precisely
than a simple grid of "Xs" on a character-oriented screen. Another reason for the rapid advances in
the field is the parallel work in visualization being conducted in fields as diverse as the military,
medicine, and weather forecasting. For example, based on the interfaces developed for use in clinical
medicine, such as fMRI, the next generation of user interfaces used in bioinformatics will likely inherit
some of this higher-level biological focus.
Bioinformatics visualization requirements, especially those related to 3D rendering of protein
structures and modeling protein-protein interactions in real time, will certainly drive development in
high-end computing, including supercomputer and grid computing. The challenge for the
bioinformatics community is to devise visualization techniques and related technologies that are
easily shared, capable of being supported in the long-term, and ones that provide developers of next-
generation hardware and software with a viable target to support.
 
 
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