Posted on 04/15/2007 7:39:44 PM PDT by texas booster
Inner Life of the Cell: Animation conception and scientific content by Alain Viel and Robert A. Lue.
Animation by John Liebler/XVIVO.
SIGGRAPH Award Winning Video
Reminds me of TI.
Great engineering, lousy marketing.
Never put an engineer in charge of commercials. Dry hardly begins to describe it.
Somewhere I have a Byte magazine ad spoof from the early 80s for a nuclear powered battery backup. Sounds much like the Rockwell ad.
BTW, folding is adicting - not that I would know anything about that (watch your six texas booster, I’m less than two months from passing you)
Yeah, I check it out every three hours, and there is not much I can do about it. Congrats.
For a day or so, your 1950 Pro and PS3 were making you the number 1 folder on the team.
Of course, now that Klutz is back from spring break things are back to normal.
yeah, but mine are all home systems (and all in my home). My heating bill is small in the winter, but my summer electric will scare me :)
Well GPU’s are pure math crunching machines, and the R600 supposably is rumored to have it’s own physics engine on die so that will only add to its mathematical crunching power. Anyways thanks for the heads up.
Great movie and explanation; makes you realise just how ignorant we are and what else we have to discover.
I also went to their main site — http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/ — and there are several other lectures on DNA and Gene Sequencing. Very informative. Thank you.
BTTT
Thanks for the overnight bump!
It is a great animation of how our cells work - but there is still much more to be discovered.
Good morning Texas booster and the other FR folder.
Nice video link btw.
Apologies for the off-topic hijack of this thread but didn’t feel that I should start a new thread on a non-folding specific forum.
Before anyone flames me I’d like to say I’ve been supporting DC projects for many years now most recently the BBC climate change (two complete models - they take many months) and Folding@home (lemonman - team 10 ~400K)
However I am in a different team (OcUK) and therefore appeal to group ethos of the folding community for my request. For those of you that use Fahmonitor on vulcan.pve-inc.com you many have noticed that Team 10 (OcUK) have appeared on the stats – that’s me.
Apologies if I’m treading on anyone’s toes - as I didn’t realise it was a single team resource (with the team variable I presumed it was open) Anyway I’ve not set-up the schedule manager yet; just did a test upload (as per guide) and that’s when I realised.
I really like this web based tool (10 gold stars to the programmer) as I’ve Pc’s crunching WU’s all over London. And FahMon 2.2 just can’t do what your site does.
I’d like to carry on using Fahmoniter but as I see it I’m now left with three options.
1) I leave Fahmonitor alone - after 7 days my stats will be deleted (as per guide) and you’ll never here from me again. (a shame but I’ve no right you use your teams resources)
2) I’m allowed to keep my stats live on your server. I’ll thankfully load 20ish pc’s and use it gratefully without fuss. I’ve no problem of you team comparing their results against mine - and will help with folding related topics posted here.
3) I’m allowed to have a copy of the stats site code (full credit to the author) and I’ll host it on my server for my team. (my preferred option as I’d doesn’t use your resources, but know I’m asking a lot)
Bit of an epic post but felt I needed to ask now I realise my mistake.
I look forward to your replies.
S
Egon is the creator of fahmonitor. He alone decides what you will be allowed to do with it. We are just glad that he lets us use it,
Its kinda like democracy here at Free Republic. If Jim and John say its OK, then its OK.
Since you are a FReeper in good standing, not having been banned yet for today, FReepmail Egon and beg to be allowed to continue. He may even have time to set up another team. ;’)
That was highly cool. I’m finishing up a microbiology class now.
Hilarious part in the middle for those of you who can’t stick the whole thing: the vesicle being hauled up the microtubule by the walking motor protein.
Mrs VS
If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.
Available features include:
Our posts are heavily geared towards supporting F@H and getting FReepers to join the research. The idea is to get as many people involved into research as possible.
I know that there are many FReepers that BOINC and support other folding projects. Perfectly fine with me.
I’ll toss you onto the F@H ping list with your permission. A viewpoint from outside our little group is always welcome, and any support you can give to us only benefits everyone.
I was wondering about the walking “motor protein”.
I understand the concept and the need for passive transport in a cell, but is it possible that the animators got a little carried away at that point?
As our resident Microbiologist on the forum, how close to reality is all that stuff, going on in our cells?
What kind of timeframe are we talking about here? Milliseconds or microseconds?
Yeah, just saw team 10 show up! That's what I get for missing staff meetings!
Not a problem, shadowscotland, feel free to use the tool. Glad to have you! It looks like you were able to successfully set it up!
FAHMonitor was set up to support multiple teams-- I just never have officially opened it up-- although I'm seeing multiple pointers to it on Google now.
I just fixed a bug that was taking team 10 users to team 36120's home page.
Hey doode, that is so great to see multiple teams on the home pahe of F@Hmonitor!
Wonder how many users are out there that are using F@Hmonitor and we don’t know it?
You may have to get back over to the support forum and bring that post back to life.
I guess our next scheduled staff meeting will either be in Dallas, St Paul or London. Have your appointment secretary get back to us.
Good grief, I’m taking an introductory course.
However:
Eukaryote (that’s us) DNA replicates 50 base pairs a second, with thousands of replication forks in each chromosome.
One molecule of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase can convert around 600,000 molecules of carbon dioxide to carbonic acid in a second - they’re popping in and out of one pocket that fast.
Carbonic anhydrase is a speed demon; other enzymes work at slower rates, maybe catalyzing 20, 100, 2000 reactions a second.
I have no idea how fast microtubules synthesize, maybe about as fast as DNA? and would guess similar rates for protein synthesis from the RNA.
And I’d read that the cytoskeleton guided vesicle movement by cytoplamic streaming but I never never read about any walking motor protein tethers. I’ve got to show this site to my professor.
Mrs VS
The microtubules probably synthesize faster than DNA, because you can see cells move. I didn’t see any enzyme involved in the animation though, the molecules were shown just flying into place.
Mrs VS
You understood what “Eukaryote” is without Googling.
We bow in honor of your wisdom.
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I’m still amazed at how much more we know than when I had college biology. The deeper we look the more there is to see.
Makes Intelligent Design a very respectable theory, for those that care to consider it.
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