Overview of Suns algorithm and architecture.

Abstract

<p>(Inputs) The search index is built from two inputs: a set of words to recognize and a set of protein structures to search subdivided into pages. (Index) The two underlying data structures are a forward index that translates words to matching pages and a database of every page which translates matched words to atoms within each page. (Server) Each request to the server is broken into three steps: consult the forward index to find potentially matching pages, filter matching pages by RMSD to the query, and aligning successful matches to the query. (Queue) A message queue forwards requests from clients to servers, and forwards responses from servers to clients. (Clients) Suns provides two client interfaces: a PyMOL search plugin and the suns-cmd command line interface.</p