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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2026

Cellular and molecular representations: Following the lesson of David Goodsell.

Monica Zoppè, Vera Celia Julia Williams, Ariane Briegel

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Cellular and molecular representations: Following the lesson of David Goodsell.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Monica ZoppèInstitute of BioPhysics, IBF-CNR, Milan, Italy.
Vera Celia Julia WilliamsIntegrative Structural Cell Biology, Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris-Cité, CNRS UMR 3528, Paris, France.
Ariane BriegelIntegrative Structural Cell Biology, Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris-Cité, CNRS UMR 3528, Paris, France.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

David Goodsell's images have helped, over the last 30 years, thousands of students all over the world to imagine the cellular world by representing molecules, proteins, complexes, viruses, bacteria, and cellular processes. His contributions to the development of Molecular Graphics (MG) have been invaluable, and his retirement is the last (for now) of his kind acts: opening space for the next generation of scholars in the art and science of MG. Compared to the '90s, we have a much wider range of objects, places, processes and information that can serve as the basis for our images, and we also have many more tools for producing them, as demonstrated by the great work of thousands of scientist-artists, active as amateurs, as professional illustrators, or as members of dedicated institutional sections. Three decades of experience have produced a creative chaos that needs an organization effort, if it is to become "common background knowledge" not just for professionals of cellular and molecular biology, but for the wider scientific community.

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Cell BiologyMolecular BiologyHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st Centurycell biologyDavid Goodsellimage theoryimaginationmesosphererepresentationstructural biology

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PMID42186139
PMCPMC13239077

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