Whats the screen saver showing?
Our screen saver shows real time visualizations of the simulations being performed. The molecule drawn is the current atomic configuration (“fold”) of the protein being simulated on your computer and the graph on the bottom shows the potential energy in femtosecond increments. We display the protein in a variety of visualization styles and orientations both to get a better look at the protein fold as well as simple aesthetics. The fact that the protein visualization “scrolls” out does not have any biological meaning; it’s just a non-CPU intensive and visually appealing way to show the protein. There are currently two visualization modes: Space-filling and ball-and-stick. In ball-and-stick mode, each small ball represents an atom, and the sticks represent bonds between atoms. In the space-filling model, each filled sphere represents the approximate volume that the electrons occupy around each atom. In both modes, carbon atoms are drawn in dark gray, hydrogen atoms are drawn in light gra
