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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2014

A guide to the visual analysis and communication of biomolecular structural data.

Graham T Johnson, Samuel Hertig

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The evolving landscape of molecular visualization.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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  3. A Concise Review of Biomolecule Visualization.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024
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  4. Design principles for molecular animation.Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2024
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  6. Design - a new way to look at old molecules.Journal of integrative bioinformatics · 2022
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  9. Structure of cell-cell adhesion mediated by the Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  14. BlendMol: advanced macromolecular visualization in Blender.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2019
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  16. Instant Construction and Visualization of Crowded Biological Environments.IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics · 2018
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  17. The Scientist as Illustrator.Trends in immunology · 2016
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  18. Creating Stop-Motion Animations to Learn Molecular Biology Dynamics.Journal of microbiology & biology education · 2015
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  19. Quantifying Modes of 3D Cell Migration.Trends in cell biology · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Graham T Johnson1] California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, San Francisco; and the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158, USA. [2] Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.
Samuel HertigCalifornia Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, San Francisco; and the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biologists regularly face an increasingly difficult task - to effectively communicate bigger and more complex structural data using an ever-expanding suite of visualization tools. Whether presenting results to peers or educating an outreach audience, a scientist can achieve maximal impact with minimal production time by systematically identifying an audience's needs, planning solutions from a variety of visual communication techniques and then applying the most appropriate software tools. A guide to available resources that range from software tools to professional illustrators can help researchers to generate better figures and presentations tailored to any audience's needs, and enable artistically inclined scientists to create captivating outreach imagery.

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Information DisseminationModels, MolecularProtein ConformationDatabases, ProteinMolecular StructurePublishing

Identifiers

PMID25245078

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