Today, ribbon diagrams are the ubiquitous face of proteins in scientific articles, textbooks and magazines, known for their particular combination of clarity and beauty. “It’s hard to imagine a ...

Drawing diagrams with nodes and arrows is the common approach for representing how proteins and genes interact, and papers frequently include such informal node-and-arrow diagrams. Although such ...

Richardson, a professor of biochemistry at Duke University, studied proteins, the biomolecules that underpin all the workings of life. At the time, structural biologists were getting better at ...