X-ray and EM density maps

This segment introduces how to work with volume data. Volume data means a 3-dimensional grid of data values.

We'll look at three kinds of volume data:

• electrostatic potential
• x-ray crystallography density map
• electron microscopy density map

Demonstration

Microtubules composed of alpha and beta-tubulin proteins.

Hands-on Tutorial

Chaperonin protein folding machine.