Fig. 3

Inheritance relationship describing three different data models used in BioVR. The three data models, which are DNAModel, RNAModel and ProteinModel, are able to parse the data in the FASTA format. The niceName field maps common species names (e.g. Homo sapiens) to the key indices within the data field depending on the specific child class. The biological data of the Gria2 gene (e.g., DNA, mRNA and protein sequences) were used for the purpose of illustration