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Representation and Misrepresentation in Biomolecular Science
2007
Theoria et Historia Scientiarum
Biological molecules are too small for direct imaging, so synthetic images are used for study and presentation of molecular structure. Three basic types of images are widely used, using different fictional elements to display different aspects of the structure: bond diagrams represent each covalent bond as a single line; spacefilling diagrams represent each atom as a sphere; and ribbon diagrams are schematic representations of the molecular topology. The widespread, and nearly exclusive, use of
doi:10.12775/ths.2002.026
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