We have developed computer animation techniques to analyze the long-range electron transfer in proteins. In this work, electron tunneling in proteins was simulated by the Feynman path integral method with the Metropolis Monte Carlo technique. This simulation method was proposed by Kuki and Wolynes (1987). We applied this method to Ru-modified cytochrome
c under artificial potentials in the protein, and introduced trimmed parametric surfaces to describe electron transfer pathways obtained by the above simulation. In order to observe the pathways in detail, a computer animation was produced in which a camera eye is moving along one of the electron paths in the protein.
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