Tag: scholarly communication
From RCSB PDB to Blender: Creating 3D Models and Animations for Structural Biology
— by Wilson Tang Structural biology becomes easier to understand when biological molecules are viewed as three-dimensional objects rather than as flat textbook diagrams. The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) provides browser-based access to experimentally determined three-dimensional biomolecular structures and offers tools for exploration, visualisation, analysis, and download [1]. For researchers, educators, and science communicators, RCSB PDB…
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Transforming Open Access: Report of the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference
— by Florence Ng The Conference From 6-7 June 2023, representatives of research communities from 38 nations and six continents gathered at the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference (B16) hosted by the Max Planck Society. The purpose of the conference was to gather global actors in discussion of viable strategies to transform scholarly publishing from…
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