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27 May 20, 13 tweets, 13 min read

@Scient_Art

Thread! It’s great to have been able to collaborate with @Scient_Art on a detailed model of the #SARS-CoV-2 virus particle, the cause of #COVID-19, using methods we’ve developed with @GSofASimVis @GSofA and @CVRinfo #scicomm #sciart (1/13)

@snjasim

These have been used by @snjasim to illustrate an @UKRI_News article on ‘Getting to know the new coronavirus’ coronavirusexplained.ukri.org/en/article/cad… (2/13)

@Scient_Art

Thanks to @Scient_Art and @GlasgowLifeSci you can explore #SARS-CoV-2 in 3D on @Sketchfab here: sketchfab.com/3d-models/sars… (3/13)

And here, showing the interior of the #SARS-CoV-2 virus particle sketchfab.com/3d-models/half… (4/13)

And also here, showing the #SARS-CoV-2 virus particle’s component parts sketchfab.com/3d-models/sars… (5/13)

@Scient_Art

You can view @Scient_Art’s video description of the #SARS-CoV-2 virus particle here (6/13)

And you can download all of the images and 3D models (for free) for your own #scicomm #sciart #visualisation and #graphics needs, here researchdata.gla.ac.uk/1017/ (7/13)

There’s more! We also made a #ColouringSheet, if you want to colour in COVID, or want to explain the virus to someone who does. #SciComm #Sciart gla.ac.uk/media/Media_72… (8/13)

@DrBenNeuman

To put this together we drew on published work on coronaviruses, notably from @DrBenNeuman, and on previous illustrations, in particular this superb painting by @dsgoodsell (9/13)

@GSofA

Our model builds on our collaborations with the joint @GSofA and @UofGlasgow MSc in Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy tinyurl.com/yav9hv3r especially with #NainaNair, who built this amazing influenza virus model with supervision from @dlivingstone (10/13)

@Scient_Art

… which @Scient_Art and @GlasgowLifeSci also put on @Sketchfab for us sketchfab.com/3d-models/infl… … (11/13)

… along with another view of influenza viruses, here: sketchfab.com/3d-models/a-va… … (12/13)

@dlivingstone

We’re now working with @dlivingstone, other former @GSofASimVis students and @snjasim and @cggbamford to develop this further – as an AR app, which you can preview here tinyurl.com/yc8edw7a and as a short paper. Watch this space! (13/13)

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@Scient_Art

Earlier this year, @Scient_Art collaborated with us to produce one of the first detailed 3D models of the #SARSCoV2 virus particle. To round off 2021 she's updated her model, and it looks great (1/N)

@RommieAmaro

... the first model drew heavily on existing work on related viruses (SARS-CoV-1 and MHV). The updated model has an improved representation of the spike protein, building on the detailed model from @RommieAmaro's lab (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…) (2/N)

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@CVRHutchinson

18 Jun 20

We’ve just had a paper published and I would like to tell you a story about people in science being nice to each other – a thread cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

@MountSinaiNYC

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