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Marieke

Couldn’t agree more! Have been enamored with Goodsell’s work for a long time, for example. On that note, it’s worth looking at cellPACK too.

I think especially molecular crowding in cellular environments can be tough. It’s so dense that the crowding often occludes the aspect of interest. But the crowding may also play a role in that aspect itself! Very challenging to effectively communicate, and subtly special when done well.

Marieke

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These pictures was all done in VMD by the way, but I’ve had to learn a lot of arcane tricks (fun though, but somewhat inaccessible) to make what I’ve had in my mind.
And a very beefy 500 GiB and great gpu machine. Don’t think I would’ve had the patience otherwise, and it still took a day to set everything up juuuust right.

But people are also doing wild stuff with Blender, in particular. Also tried that on an earlier iteration of the mitochondrion demo.

Asta [AMP]

@[email protected] One of the things I would love to do is some sort of VR visualization for systems (not just limited to proteins, obviously). There's a huuuuuge set of barriers to entrance there, though (which begin at me needing the time/energy/effort to learn how to program stuff in VR and absolutely do not end at the limited availability of open hardware).

But also yes! I totally forgot that Goodsell was a key factor in my own brain heading in that direction, too. Also, a whole day