About the current project status

Sirius visualization framework is being developed at San Diego Supercomputer Center to address the growing need to integrate available structure and sequence information in a capable desktop environment. Sirius provides flexibility to render, color, show/hide, label any given atom of the structure independently of other parts of the display, move parts of the structure, build and edit 3D structure and sequence, as well as access online resources via Data Access component.

At this point, the primary Sirius development project has run out of funding, hence the rate of addition of new features has slowed down, with only the bug fixes being released. However, some development is being carried out in the research group of Dr. Kim Baldridge. That work includes surface rendering, mapping of electrostatics and possibly volumetric data rendering. Once the new features are stable, they will be rolled into a new Sirius release.

The data structures and 3D graphics framework are derived from the Molecular Biology Toolkit (Moreland et al., BMC Bioinformatics).

If you have bug reports please use the form under Support or email Sasha Buzko at obuzko@sdsc.edu.

Project contributors: Sasha Buzko (overall architecture and development), Son-Huy Pham (Web component and help system), Ashton Taylor (Web site design).