Illustrate: Software for Biomolecular Illustration

David S Goodsell1, Ludovic Autin2, Arthur J Olson2

  • 1Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; RCSB Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

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