The video recordings of the talks from the ‘Visualising Cellular Systems’ session of VIZBI 2013 are now available on http://vizbi.org/videos. In the opening talk, Seán O’Donoghue talks about molecular spatial data and the emerging issue of sequence-structure gap arising from experimental difficulties in obtaining reliable (or any) structure information for a given protein. In his talk, Seán gives a brief demonstration of Aquaria, a web-based 3D molecular structure visualization tool that combines data from various databases and allows investigators to easily view and explore proteins and protein-protein interactions. Thomas Ferrin talks about visualization tools for interactive modelling of biological structures and showcases how various features Chimera, an extensible molecular modelling software, can be applied to visualise various protein structures. The third talk, given by Ian Sillitoe, introduces protein structure classification with particular emphasis on superfamily-centric taxonomy which is used in the CATH database. Finally, Martin Strauch briefly presents his BioVis Honorable Mention paper on visualising odours with insect brains.
