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(a) LiteMol suite visualization of the HIV-1 capsid (PDB entry 3j3q). The HIV-1 capsid contains 2.44 million atoms, and its gzip-compressed mmCIF file is 41.78 MB in size. To display a structure utilizing a cartoon representation, only a subset of backbone atoms is required, reducing the size to 1.54 MB in BinaryCIF. (b) Mol* visualization of faustovirus (PDB entry 5j7v; Klose et al., 2016  ). The faustovirus assembly has 40 million atoms. A naïve approach requires ∼480 MB of memory to represent the XYZ positions as 32-bit floats. The advanced data structures in Mol* allocate only 50 MB of memory to represent and visualize the whole structure by utilizing the 2760-fold symmetry of the structure. |
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