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3D pdb Structures as Native 3D Models into MS PowerPoint
Author(s) -
Ouellet Jonathan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2020.34.s1.03069
Subject(s) - visualization , computer science , file format , computer graphics (images) , 3d model , protein data bank (rcsb pdb) , 3d modeling , focus (optics) , artificial intelligence , database , chemistry , physics , optics , stereochemistry
An effective way to transmit knowledge is to share an image. In fields such as astronomy, engineering, morphology or biochemistry, the plain 2D paper format has limitations on the visualization of objects in 3D. Innovations such as 3D PDF from Adobe allowed publishers to integrate 3D objects into pdf while many researchers create 360‐degrees rotation movies of their molecule of interest. Still, the lack of easy insertion of 3D objects in common files makes the 3D visualization hard to share. In January 2018, Microsoft Office (MSO) introduced a new option within its Insert Menu by adding 3D Models . Stock 3D models can be added, rotated and animated. More importantly, multiple 3D file formats can be incorporated. This focus of this presentation is to demonstrate a “How to” guide to easily convert a pdb structure to a 3D format which is compatible with MSO. Such 3D model are lightweight, easy to create and very easy to share.Procedure to import pdb structures into MS PowerPoint