Poster: GPU-accelerated rigid body fitting of atomic structures into electron density maps

In the last three years, graphical processing units (GPUs) have grown in popularity since they can now be programmed with higher-level languages like the industry standard OpenCL. GPUs are ideal in processing parallel computations and show significant speed ups over CPU implementations. The presented work applies GPUs to rapidly refine initial placements of protein models into low resolution density maps thereby accelerating construction of atomic-detail models for large macromolecular assemblies.