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Histogram of protein's shape mapped to a sphere
A protein's shape can be described by a series of points on the unit sphere. The blue regions at the poles of this spherical histogram do not occur in proteins (see Hamelryck et al).
Image Credit: Histogram made using R by Wouter Boomsma. Ray-traced version of the histogram mapped to spheres using POVRAY by Thomas Hamelryck.
Citation: (2006) PLoS Computational Biology Issue Image | Vol. 2(9) September 2006. PLoS Comput Biol 2(9): ev02.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pcbi.v02.i09
Published: September 29, 2006
Copyright: © 2006 Hamelryck et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A protein's shape can be described by a series of points on the unit sphere. The blue regions at the poles of this spherical histogram do not occur in proteins (see Hamelryck et al).
Image Credit: Histogram made using R by Wouter Boomsma. Ray-traced version of the histogram mapped to spheres using POVRAY by Thomas Hamelryck.