Friday afternoon.... Good time to look at some artistic
representations of protein molecules. This is pretty amazing:

http://www.julianvossandreae.com/

Johan

On 11 January 2013 14:26, Derek Logan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

To be honest I preferred this more homespun work:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2013/jan/10/research-as-art-competition-in-pictures?INTCMP=SRCH#/?picture=402066318&index=3

Somewhat reminiscent of Byron's Bender models:

http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/history.htm#bender

/Derek

On 11 Jan 2013, at 13:08, Mark J van Raaij <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

if you zoom in 10exp9-10exp10 times (lots of cmd-+ in macosx), you can see the amino acids.

tried to check the accuracy; however, I couldn't find the mtz file to display the density...does this journal not enforce depositing the data?

Mark J van Raaij

Laboratorio M-4

Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas

Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC

c/Darwin 3

E-28049 Madrid, Spain

tel. (+34) 91 585 4616

http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij

On 11 Jan 2013, at 11:47, Harry Powell wrote:

Hi

Just noticed this -

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20978904

do we know the artist? He has just moved to Cambridge...

Harry

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