@article{LindowBaumHege2012, author = {Lindow, Norbert and Baum, Daniel and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Perceptually Linear Parameter Variations}, series = {Computer Graphics Forum}, volume = {31}, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, number = {2}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03054.x target}, pages = {535 -- 544}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{VohraHerreraTavhelidseSucketal., author = {Vohra, Sumit Kumar and Herrera, Kristian and Tavhelidse-Suck, Tinatini and Knoblich, Simon and Seleit, Ali and Boulanger-Weill, Jonathan and Chambule, Sydney and Aspiras, Ariel and Santoriello, Cristina and Randlett, Owen and Wittbrodt, Joachim and Aulehla, Alexander and Lichtman, Jeff W. and Fishman, Mark and Hege, Hans-Christian and Baum, Daniel and Engert, Florian and Isoe, Yasuko}, title = {Multi-species community platform for comparative neuroscience in teleost fish}, doi = {10.1101/2024.02.14.580400}, abstract = {Studying neural mechanisms in complementary model organisms from different ecological niches in the same animal class can leverage the comparative brain analysis at the cellular level. To advance such a direction, we developed a unified brain atlas platform and specialized tools that allowed us to quantitatively compare neural structures in two teleost larvae, medaka (Oryzias latipes) and zebrafish (Danio rerio). Leveraging this quantitative approach we found that most brain regions are similar but some subpopulations are unique in each species. Specifically, we confirmed the existence of a clear dorsal pallial region in the telencephalon in medaka lacking in zebrafish. Further, our approach allows for extraction of differentially expressed genes in both species, and for quantitative comparison of neural activity at cellular resolution. The web-based and interactive nature of this atlas platform will facilitate the teleost community's research and its easy extensibility will encourage contributions to its continuous expansion.}, language = {en} } @article{CourniaAllenAndricioaeietal.2015, author = {Cournia, Zoe and Allen, Toby W. and Andricioaei, Ioan and Antonny, Bruno and Baum, Daniel and Brannigan, Grace and Buchete, Nicolae-Viorel and Deckman, Jason T. and Delemotte, Lucie and del Val, Coral and Friedman, Ran and Gkeka, Paraskevi and Hege, Hans-Christian and H{\´e}nin, J{\´e}r{\^o}me and Kasimova, Marina A. and Kolocouris, Antonios and Klein, Michael L. and Khalid, Syma and Lemieux, Joanne and Lindow, Norbert and Roy, Mahua and Selent, Jana and Tarek, Mounir and Tofoleanu, Florentina and Vanni, Stefano and Urban, Sinisa and Wales, David J. and Smith, Jeremy C. and Bondar, Ana-Nicoleta}, title = {Membrane Protein Structure, Function and Dynamics: A Perspective from Experiments and Theory}, series = {Journal of Membrane Biology}, volume = {248}, journal = {Journal of Membrane Biology}, number = {4}, doi = {10.1007/s00232-015-9802-0}, pages = {611 -- 640}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @article{LindowBaumHege2014, author = {Lindow, Norbert and Baum, Daniel and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Ligand Excluded Surface: A New Type of Molecular Surface}, series = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, volume = {20}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, number = {12}, doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346404}, pages = {2486 -- 2495}, year = {2014}, abstract = {The most popular molecular surface in molecular visualization is the solvent excluded surface (SES). It provides information about the accessibility of a biomolecule for a solvent molecule that is geometrically approximated by a sphere. During a period of almost four decades, the SES has served for many purposes - including visualization, analysis of molecular interactions and the study of cavities in molecular structures. However, if one is interested in the surface that is accessible to a molecule whose shape differs significantly from a sphere, a different concept is necessary. To address this problem, we generalize the definition of the SES by replacing the probe sphere with the full geometry of the ligand defined by the arrangement of its van der Waals spheres. We call the new surface ligand excluded surface (LES) and present an efficient, grid-based algorithm for its computation. Furthermore, we show that this algorithm can also be used to compute molecular cavities that could host the ligand molecule. We provide a detailed description of its implementation on CPU and GPU. Furthermore, we present a performance and convergence analysis and compare the LES for several molecules, using as ligands either water or small organic molecules.}, language = {en} } @misc{LindowBaumHege, author = {Lindow, Norbert and Baum, Daniel and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Ligand Excluded Surface: A New Type of Molecular Surface}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-51194}, abstract = {The most popular molecular surface in molecular visualization is the solvent excluded surface (SES). It provides information about the accessibility of a biomolecule for a solvent molecule that is geometrically approximated by a sphere. During a period of almost four decades, the SES has served for many purposes - including visualization, analysis of molecular interactions and the study of cavities in molecular structures. However, if one is interested in the surface that is accessible to a molecule whose shape differs significantly from a sphere, a different concept is necessary. To address this problem, we generalize the definition of the SES by replacing the probe sphere with the full geometry of the ligand defined by the arrangement of its van der Waals spheres. We call the new surface ligand excluded surface (LES) and present an efficient, grid-based algorithm for its computation. Furthermore, we show that this algorithm can also be used to compute molecular cavities that could host the ligand molecule. We provide a detailed description of its implementation on CPU and GPU. Furthermore, we present a performance and convergence analysis and compare the LES for several molecules, using as ligands either water or small organic molecules.}, language = {en} } @misc{LindowBaumLeborgneetal., author = {Lindow, Norbert and Baum, Daniel and Leborgne, Morgan and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Interactive Visualization of RNA and DNA Structures}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-69704}, abstract = {The analysis and visualization of nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) play an increasingly important role due to the growing number of known 3-dimensional structures of such molecules. The great complexity of these structures, in particular, those of RNA, demands interactive visualization to get deeper insights into the relationship between the 2D secondary structure motifs and their 3D tertiary structures. Over the last decades, a lot of research in molecular visualization has focused on the visual exploration of protein structures while nucleic acids have only been marginally addressed. In contrast to proteins, which are composed of amino acids, the ingredients of nucleic acids are nucleotides. They form structuring patterns that differ from those of proteins and, hence, also require different visualization and exploration techniques. In order to support interactive exploration of nucleic acids, the computation of secondary structure motifs as well as their visualization in 2D and 3D must be fast. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on the performance of both the computation and visualization of nucleic acid structure. For the first time, we present a ray casting-based visualization of RNA and DNA secondary and tertiary structures, which enables real-time visualization of even large molecular dynamics trajectories. Furthermore, we provide a detailed description of all important aspects to visualize nucleic acid secondary and tertiary structures. With this, we close an important gap in molecular visualization.}, language = {en} } @article{LindowBaumLeborgneetal., author = {Lindow, Norbert and Baum, Daniel and Leborgne, Morgan and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Interactive Visualization of RNA and DNA Structures}, series = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, volume = {25}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, number = {1}, doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2018.2864507}, pages = {967 -- 976}, abstract = {The analysis and visualization of nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) is playing an increasingly important role due to their fundamental importance for all forms of life and the growing number of known 3D structures of such molecules. The great complexity of these structures, in particular, those of RNA, demands interactive visualization to get deeper insights into the relationship between the 2D secondary structure motifs and their 3D tertiary structures. Over the last decades, a lot of research in molecular visualization has focused on the visual exploration of protein structures while nucleic acids have only been marginally addressed. In contrast to proteins, which are composed of amino acids, the ingredients of nucleic acids are nucleotides. They form structuring patterns that differ from those of proteins and, hence, also require different visualization and exploration techniques. In order to support interactive exploration of nucleic acids, the computation of secondary structure motifs as well as their visualization in 2D and 3D must be fast. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on the performance of both the computation and visualization of nucleic acid structure. We present a ray casting-based visualization of RNA and DNA secondary and tertiary structures, which enables for the first time real-time visualization of even large molecular dynamics trajectories. Furthermore, we provide a detailed description of all important aspects to visualize nucleic acid secondary and tertiary structures. With this, we close an important gap in molecular visualization.}, language = {en} } @article{LindowBaumHege2012, author = {Lindow, Norbert and Baum, Daniel and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Interactive Rendering of Materials and Biological Structures on Atomic and Nanoscopic Scale}, series = {Computer Graphics Forum}, volume = {31}, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, number = {3}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03128.x target}, pages = {1325 -- 1334}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KlindtBaumProhaskaetal.2012, author = {Klindt, Marco and Baum, Daniel and Prohaska, Steffen and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {iCon.text - a customizable iPad app for kiosk applications in museum exhibitions}, series = {EVA 2012 Berlin}, booktitle = {EVA 2012 Berlin}, publisher = {Gesellschaft zur F{\"o}rderung angewandter Informatik e.V.}, address = {Volmerstraße 3, 12489 Berlin}, pages = {150 -- 155}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @misc{KlindtBaumProhaskaetal., author = {Klindt, Marco and Baum, Daniel and Prohaska, Steffen and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {iCon.text - a customizable iPad app for kiosk applications in museum exhibitions}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-17731}, abstract = {We present iCon.text, a kiosk platform for the iPad centered around artefacts, whose content and layout can be tailored without programming skills for specific museum exhibitions. The central metaphor to access information is a virtual postcard with one front and a customizable number of back sides that provide details about exhibits to museum visitors in textual and image form. Back sides can link to others cards. Access to these postcards is possible through one or more navigation views that can be navigated to from a navigation bar. The entry point to the application is designed as a multitouch interactive pile of cards in a playful manner that allows visitors of any age an easy approach to the presentation and interaction metaphor. To directly access a certain postcard, a mosaic view can be uitilized to provide an overview about all available exhibits. A category view groups postcards into themes. Locating artefacts on a zoomable map or exhibition floor plan allows for conveying information about spatial contexts between different objects and their location. Furthermore, contexts can be illustrated with a two stage view comprising an overview and corresponding detail views to provide further insights into the spatial, temporal, and thematic contexts of artefacts. The application scaffolding allows the design of bilingual presentations to support exhibitions with an international audience. The logo of the presenting institution or exhibition can be incorporated to display the the kiosk's corporate design branding and to access an imprint or further informations. Usage is logged into files to provide a basis for extracting statistical information about the usage. The details about the exhibits are presented as images and as such impose no limit to the design choices made by the content provider or exhibition designer. The application (enhanced with a panoramic view) has been integrated successfully into a large special exhibition about the ancient city of Pergamon 2011/2012 at the Pergamon Museum Berlin within the interdisciplinary project "Berlin Sculpture Network".}, language = {en} } @article{KramerNoackBaumetal., author = {Kramer, Tobias and Noack, Matthias and Baum, Daniel and Hege, Hans-Christian and Heller, Eric J.}, title = {Homogeneous dust emission and jet structure near active cometary nuclei: the case of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko}, abstract = {We compute trajectories of dust grains starting from a homogeneous surface activity-profile on a irregularly shaped cometary nucleus. Despite the initially homogeneous dust distribution a collimation in jet-like structures becomes visible. The fine structure is caused by concave topographical features with similar bundles of normal vectors. The model incorporates accurately determined gravitational forces, rotation of the nucleus, and gas-dust interaction. Jet-like dust structures are obtained for a wide range of gas-dust interactions. For the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, we derive the global dust distribution around the nucleus and find several areas of agreement between the homogeneous dust emission model and the Rosetta observation of dust jets, including velocity-dependent bending of trajectories.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{WeberMoellerVerbavatzetal.2011, author = {Weber, Britta and M{\"o}ller, Marit and Verbavatz, Jean-Marc and Baum, Daniel and Hege, Hans-Christian and Prohaska, Steffen}, title = {Fast Tracing of Microtubule Centerlines in Electron Tomograms}, series = {BioVis 2011 Abstracts, 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization}, booktitle = {BioVis 2011 Abstracts, 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{LindowBaumBondaretal.2013, author = {Lindow, Norbert and Baum, Daniel and Bondar, Ana-Nicoleta and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Exploring cavity dynamics in biomolecular systems}, series = {BMC Bioinformatics}, volume = {14}, journal = {BMC Bioinformatics}, edition = {(Suppl 19):S5}, doi = {10.1186/1471-2105-14-S19-S5}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{LindowBaumBondaretal.2012, author = {Lindow, Norbert and Baum, Daniel and Bondar, Ana-Nicoleta and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Dynamic Channels in Biomolecular Systems: Path Analysis and Visualization}, series = {Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (biovis'12)}, booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (biovis'12)}, doi = {10.1109/BioVis.2012.6378599}, pages = {99 -- 106}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @misc{KramerNoackBaumetal.2017, author = {Kramer, Tobias and Noack, Matthias and Baum, Daniel and Hege, Hans-Christian and Heller, Eric J.}, title = {Dust and gas emission from cometary nuclei: the case of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-66338}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Comets display with decreasing solar distance an increased emission of gas and dust particles, leading to the formation of the coma and tail. Spacecraft missions provide insight in the temporal and spatial variations of the dust and gas sources located on the cometary nucleus. For the case of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G), the long-term obser- vations from the Rosetta mission point to a homogeneous dust emission across the entire illuminated surface. Despite the homogeneous initial dis- tribution, a collimation in jet-like structures becomes visible. We propose that this observation is linked directly to the complex shape of the nucleus and projects concave topographical features into the dust coma. To test this hypothesis, we put forward a gas-dust description of 67P/C-G, where gravitational and gas forces are accurately determined from the surface mesh and the rotation of the nucleus is fully incorporated. The emerging jet-like structures persist for a wide range of gas-dust interactions and show a dust velocity dependent bending.}, language = {en} } @article{KramerNoackBaumetal., author = {Kramer, Tobias and Noack, Matthias and Baum, Daniel and Hege, Hans-Christian and Heller, Eric J.}, title = {Dust and gas emission from cometary nuclei: the case of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko}, series = {Advances in Physics: X}, volume = {3}, journal = {Advances in Physics: X}, number = {1}, doi = {10.1080/23746149.2017.1404436}, pages = {1404436}, abstract = {Comets display with decreasing solar distance an increased emission of gas and dust particles, leading to the formation of the coma and tail. Spacecraft missions provide insight in the temporal and spatial variations of the dust and gas sources located on the cometary nucleus. For the case of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G), the long-term obser- vations from the Rosetta mission point to a homogeneous dust emission across the entire illuminated surface. Despite the homogeneous initial dis- tribution, a collimation in jet-like structures becomes visible. We propose that this observation is linked directly to the complex shape of the nucleus and projects concave topographical features into the dust coma. To test this hypothesis, we put forward a gas-dust description of 67P/C-G, where gravitational and gas forces are accurately determined from the surface mesh and the rotation of the nucleus is fully incorporated. The emerging jet-like structures persist for a wide range of gas-dust interactions and show a dust velocity dependent bending.}, language = {en} } @misc{HombergBaumWiebeletal.2014, author = {Homberg, Ulrike and Baum, Daniel and Wiebel, Alexander and Prohaska, Steffen and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Definition, Extraction, and Validation of Pore Structures in Porous Materials}, series = {Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization III}, journal = {Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization III}, editor = {Bremer, Peer-Timo and Hotz, Ingrid and Pascucci, Valerio and Peikert, Ronald}, publisher = {Springer}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-04099-8_15}, pages = {235 -- 248}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @misc{HombergBaumWiebeletal., author = {Homberg, Ulrike and Baum, Daniel and Wiebel, Alexander and Prohaska, Steffen and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Definition, Extraction, and Validation of Pore Structures in Porous Materials}, issn = {1438-0064}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-42510}, abstract = {An intuitive and sparse representation of the void space of porous materials supports the efficient analysis and visualization of interesting qualitative and quantitative parameters of such materials. We introduce definitions of the elements of this void space, here called pore space, based on its distance function, and present methods to extract these elements using the extremal structures of the distance function. The presented methods are implemented by an image processing pipeline that determines pore centers, pore paths and pore constrictions. These pore space elements build a graph that represents the topology of the pore space in a compact way. The representations we derive from μCT image data of realistic soil specimens enable the computation of many statistical parameters and, thus, provide a basis for further visual analysis and application-specific developments. We introduced parts of our pipeline in previous work. In this chapter, we present additional details and compare our results with the analytic computation of the pore space elements for a sphere packing in order to show the correctness of our graph computation.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KlindtProhaskaBaumetal.2012, author = {Klindt, Marco and Prohaska, Steffen and Baum, Daniel and Hege, Hans-Christian}, title = {Conveying Archaeological Contexts to Museum Visitors: Case Study Pergamon Exhibition}, series = {VAST12: The 13th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage - Short Papers}, booktitle = {VAST12: The 13th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage - Short Papers}, editor = {Arnold, David and Kaminski, Jaime and Niccolucci, Franco and Stork, Andre}, publisher = {Eurographics Association}, address = {Brighton, UK}, doi = {10.2312/PE/VAST/VAST12S/025-028}, pages = {25 -- 28}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{WeberGreenanProhaskaetal.2012, author = {Weber, Britta and Greenan, Garrett and Prohaska, Steffen and Baum, Daniel and Hege, Hans-Christian and M{\"u}ller-Reichert, Thomas and Hyman, Anthony and Verbavatz, Jean-Marc}, title = {Automated tracing of microtubules in electron tomograms of plastic embedded samples of Caenorhabditis elegans embryos}, series = {Journal of Structural Biology}, volume = {178}, journal = {Journal of Structural Biology}, number = {2}, doi = {10.1016/j.jsb.2011.12.004}, pages = {129 -- 138}, year = {2012}, language = {en} }