[HN Gopher] How colorful ribbon diagrams became the face of prot...
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       How colorful ribbon diagrams became the face of proteins
        
       Author : gmays
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2024-09-06 14:10 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | fuzzfactor wrote:
       | Well they just looked so attractive and meaningful on the cover
       | of technology publications like that.
       | 
       | For one thing nobody had ever seen anything done this way, at the
       | same time almost all the readership had no clue about the
       | meaning, fully realized this was advanced and that almost nobody
       | else knew anything either. And they all recognized they were the
       | leading experts at the time.
       | 
       | Overnight all the experts suddenly had a lot to learn.
        
       | gilleain wrote:
       | I remember being very pleased when I figured out a quick way to
       | draw a ribbon helix! Richardson's diagrams are so much nicer
       | though.
       | 
       | Especially the twisted parallel beta sheet (the a-b-a sandwich)
       | on the right hand side of the three images in the middle of the
       | article (glycogen phosphorylase). The orange on one side and
       | yellow on the other is very nice.
       | 
       | Oddly, I'm currently looking at some elegantly curved William
       | Morris leaf wallpapers, and somehow they seem similar, lol.
        
       | flobosg wrote:
       | * Check out Jane Richardson's _The Anatomy and Taxonomy of
       | Protein Structures_
       | (http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/teaching/anatax, or
       | https://boscoh.com/longform/anatax for an alternative version) to
       | see more of her diagrams.
       | 
       | * And if you are into space-filling representations or depictions
       | of molecules in a biological context, you can't go wrong with
       | David Goodsell (https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/,
       | https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/goodsell-gallery,
       | https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/motm-by-date)
       | 
       | * Oh, and don't forget about Irving Geis!
       | (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Geis,
       | https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/geis-archive/gallery-by-date)
       | 
       | * A nice review about macromolecular visualization in general:
       | https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.1427
        
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