How to get more protein
Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II - OR molecular awesome
Frequent MakerBot wiki contributor jcclc1 is an illustrator and model designer at Denoyer-Geppert Science Company with a bioengineering, science illustration, and biomedical visualization. 1 Recently she updated the MakerBot wiki to include a tutorial on “How to Download and Print Protein Models from Protein Data Bank“!
Proteins can be so pretty2 that they shouldn’t just be relegated to flat images on paper or monitors or have their beauty squandered at the microscopic level.
- Photo courtesy of Ethan Hein [↩]
- Especially when colored like that picture! [↩]
| Tagged with | printing protein, protein, protein data bank | 3 comments |
3 Comments so far
Thomas
Anyone manage to actually print these on a makerbot?
The educator
Interesting, but do protein structures print as ribbon representations on a makerbot? The angles appear to be too severe for makerbot printing with ribbons. My experience using VMD and Arthur Olson’s help is that a course surface must be generated in order to print anything protein related. Thoughts? Do do have printable objects on thingiverse? See my human rhinovirus upload on thingiverse.
Tox
What about spacefilling? This should be more printable