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laodan rated 8 months ago- the Protein Data Bank visualizations via TheScientist.com, David Goodsell's Web site "Molecule of the Month."
Every month, a Scripps chemist paints colorful (but correct) pictures of a molecule of his choosing. At Scripps Research Institute, Goodsell spends most of his time using computational chemistry to design drugs that inhibit HIV infection. But part of his grant money is for creating education images, so for about two hours a month he uses structural information from X-ray crystallography to render drawings and paintings of hundreds of proteins and other molecular components in the Protein Data Bank. While the Molecule of the Month is geared toward educators like Franzen, Goodsell creates his paintings for an even broader audience. Next year he will re-launch his first book, The Machinery of Life, with all new illustrations. the Protein Data Bank visualizations Molecules, monthly The Machinery of Life David Goodsell's Metastasis 1,000,000X
David Goodsell's 17-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase David Goodsell spends most of his time using computational chemistry to design drugs that inhibit HIV infection. He uses structural information from X-ray crystallography to render drawings and paintings of hundreds of proteins and other molecular components in the Protein Data Bank. Great didactic visualizations. His works can be classified in the drawer of realism. Reality is not only what our eyes give us to see. Goodsell represents reality but reality seen through the prism not of the human eye but of X-rays transferring images to CCD digital cameras. His realism is producing images that are no less realist then images that the eye sees directly. This is a good moment to remember that the eye is a sensor that evolution has bestowed on us as a tool for observing our near environment in order to escape predators and help us stay alive... For this reason our eyes have long conditioned our understanding of reality. Science and technology have helped us peaking further, deeper, into what is around us and what is in us and for sure this gives us another understanding. But this understanding is about the same thing that our eyes are seeing, just at another level. What our eyes are giving us to see is the first degree image that is projected into our brains.
- the Protein Data Bank visualizations via TheScientist.com, David Goodsell's Web site "Molecule of the Month."
