Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Late Night Lightning

I have a camera at the beach to watch all those people come in and party while we're away. I have it set up to send me an email with a picture when there's movement. Last night I got an email around 12:30 pm with the picture below attached. Looks like it was rocking and rolling out in front of the house. I've seen this before (see below).


I've ordered a couple of new cameras from Wyze to help document my life (as if anyone cared). So maybe you'll be seeing more post on the old blog in the future.

Tuesday, July 09, 2019

MPG to GIF

A couple of years ago we published a paper on the discovery of a TAK1 inhibitor in which we included an x-ray crystal structure. Somebody wanted to use an animated picture of the crystal structure in a website and so I made a few movies and turned one of them into a .gif so I could drop it into a website without any problem. He it is.
This a a ribbon structure with the ligand shown as a space-filling molecule. It spins at about 15 rpm. Maybe too fast! The crystal is 5v5n and the movie was made with MacPyMol.