3DGV: Immersive Exploration of 3D Genome Structures using Virtual Reality

Eric W. Zhang; Chrisostomos Drogaris; Antoine Gédon; Aaron Sossin; Rajae Faraj; Haifeng Chen; Yan Cyr; Jacek Majewski; Mathieu Blanchette; Jérôme Waldispühl

doi:10.1101/855379

BioinformaticsbioRxivNov 26, 2019

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3DGV: Immersive Exploration of 3D Genome Structures using Virtual Reality

Eric W. Zhang iD, Chrisostomos Drogaris iD, Antoine Gédon, Aaron Sossin iD, Rajae Faraj, Haifeng Chen iD, Yan Cyr, Jacek Majewski iD, Mathieu Blanchette iD, Jérôme Waldispühl iD

Abstract

The analysis of 3D genomic data is expected to revolutionize our understanding of genome organization and regulatory mechanisms. Yet, the complex spatial organization of this information can be difficult to interpret with 2D viewers. Virtual Reality (VR) technologies offer an opportunity to rethink our methods to visualize and navigate 3D objects. In this paper, we introduce the Virtual Reality 3D Genome Viewer (3DGV), an open platform to experiment and develop VR solutions to explore 3D genome structures. Availabilityhttp://3dgv.cs.mcgill.ca/

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