The simulation shows 1000 individual macromolecules diffusing, colliding and transiently associating with each other over the course of 10 microseconds of simulation; the translational diffusion coefficient of the GFP in this model is in agreement with experimental measurements.

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Me too! Hi-Fi visualization & simulation. I've been telling all my friends about it.

I think their lab website is down (at least for the moment), but some videos are available in the supplemental information on their plos paper: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000694#s5
2011-02-11 17:17:47

Probably my favorite movie on the entire site... Could watch that simulation for hours trying to gain an 'intuition' for what might really be happening at that scale. Mesmerizing.
2010-12-15 23:33:44