Exploring genomes with a game engine

Studying genomes continues to be beneficial for evolutionary discover, and prognosticating/diagnosing many genetic disorders and diseases. Most of the these studies have used systems that view the DNA in a linear structure, but having this information is only a small part of fully understanding what they can reveal. Visualizing genomes in real time 3D can give researchers more insight, but this is fraught with hardware limitations. Each element contains vast amounts of information that cannot be processed at once. However, by using a game engine and sophisticated video game visualization techniques, we were able to construct a multi-platform real-time 3D genome viewer.