Abstract
Morphing was initially developed as a cinematic effect, where one image is seamlessly transformed into another image. The technique was widely adopted by biologists to visualize the transition between protein conformational states, generating an interpolated pathway from an initial to a final protein structure. Geometric morphing seeks to create visually suggestive movies that illustrate structural changes between conformations but do not necessarily represent a biologically relevant pathway, while minimum energy path (MEP) interpolations aim at describing the true transition state between the crystal structure minima in the energy landscape.
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Weiss, D.R., Koehl, P. (2014). Morphing Methods to Visualize Coarse-Grained Protein Dynamics. In: Livesay, D. (eds) Protein Dynamics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1084. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-658-0_15
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