Art & Science award at ECCB/ISMB 2011
Art & Science award for the BALL project
At the joint meeting of the 19th Annual International Conference onf Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 10th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), our contribution "Reflections on Protein Structures" received the Art and Science Award.

Our contribution was created with our real time raytracing enabled
BALLView.
The
image shows a human A2A adenosine receptor - a member of the famous
class of G-protein coupled receptors.
It was created using BALLView integrated with the real time ray tracing library RTfact. If you look closely, you can see the reflections inside the reflections inside the reflections...
Thus Ray tracing techniques allow unique insight into molecular structures - but they also allow to combine science and art.
