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Illustrating the machinery of life : Viruses
Author(s) -
Goodsell David S.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
biochemistry and molecular biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1539-3429
pISSN - 1470-8175
DOI - 10.1002/bmb.20636
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , depiction , budding , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , virus , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , nanotechnology , art , materials science , literature , paleontology
Abstract Data from electron microscopy, X‐ray crystallography, and biophysical analysis are used to create illustrations of viruses in their cellular context. This report describes the scientific data and artistic methods used to create three illustrations: a depiction of the poliovirus lifecycle, budding of influenza virus from a cell surface, and a mature HIV particle in blood serum.