History of Macromolecular Visualization

From Proteopedia

• 1994 Molecular Graphics Art Show

• Goodsell DS, Larsen TA, O'Donnell TJ. 1994 Molecular Graphics Art Show and Video Show. J Mol Graph. 1995 Aug;13(4):223-41. PMID:8527415

• 1998 Molecular Graphics Art Show

• History of Visualization of Biological Macromolecules: History.MolviZ.Org^[1] Authored 1997-2004 by Eric Martz.

• Richardson JS. Early ribbon drawings of proteins. Nat Struct Biol. 2000 Aug;7(8):624-5. doi: 10.1038/77912. PMID:10932243 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/77912

• On-Line Museum of the History of Visualization of Biological Macromolecules: Authored 2002 by Eric Francoeur.

• Richards, Frederic M. which describes the optical comparator ("Fred's Folly"), a mechanical/optical device used to build physical models from electron density maps in the 1970s, before capable computers were available.

• Molecular visualization in the 1980s.

• A History of Molecular Representation. Part One: 1800 to the 1960s. James A. Perkins. The Journal of Biocommunication 31(1), 2005. This article includes examples of the work of early macromolecular artists Irving Geis and Roger Hayward.

• A History of Molecular Representation. Part 2: The 1960s - Present. James A. Perkins. The Journal of Biocommunication 31(2), 2005. This article includes examples from macromolecular artists Jane Richardson, David Goodsell and Graham Johnson, and discusses the advent of molecular visualization on personal computers.

• O'Donoghue SI, Goodsell DS, Frangakis AS, Jossinet F, Laskowski RA, Nilges M, Saibil HR, Schafferhans A, Wade RC, Westhof E, Olson AJ. Visualization of macromolecular structures. Nat Methods. 2010 Mar;7(3 Suppl):S42-55. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1427. Epub 2010 Mar, 1. PMID:20195256 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1427

• Streaming video is available for Eric Francoeur's 40 min talk in 2011 Handling Macromolecular Structures, an illustrated review of the history of physical macromolecular models and computer representations, and the interplay of science and art.

• Richardson JS, Richardson DC, Goodsell DS. Seeing the PDB. J Biol Chem. 2021 Jan-Jun;296:100742. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100742. Epub 2021, May 4. PMID:33957126 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100742

See Also

• Molecular modeling and visualization software
• PyMOL
• Protein Explorer
• Jmol
• FirstGlance in Jmol
• Molecular sculpture
• Byron's Bender

Notes & References

1. ↑ History.MolviZ.Org should redirect to www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/history.htm.