Double Helix VR

Inspiration

Making 3D protein and DNA model easily approachable to students and researchers

What it does

Visualize 3D DNA using virtual reality

How I built it

Built with Unity 3D engine, Pymol and Blender

Challenges I ran into

• Understanding file format for virtual reality and format conversions
• Use of Unity

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Starting from ground up, learning various tools and implementing 3D VR app

What I learned

• Crystal 3D structure of protein and DNA
• Use of Blender, Unity
• Deal with various 3D file formats, PDB file format
• Deployment to iPhone/Andoird

What's next for Double Helix VR

• Standardize pipeline for any protein and DNA
• Make it Web service

Built With

• blender
• pymol
• unity