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Biomorphic Presentation of Proteins: Artistic Science or Scientific Art?
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 46, Number 3, 2013
- pp. 226-230
- Article
- Additional Information
The author’s biomorphic presentations of proteins are intended to promote the understanding of protein structure by analogy with living organisms. The understanding of a protein’s structure is necessary to the understanding of its function. The analogies discussed in this paper can be used to understand the structure-function relationship; they convey the structural and functional information aesthetically. The biomorphic representation of proteins based on their topology may be used to classify proteins as well as to study their structure-function relationships.