>>>These simple things are easily forgotten if there isn't direct visual >>>evidence for their existence.
Maybe someday we scientists will collectively realize the huge importance of intuitive data presentation and focus more on it, scorn it less as "mere presentation"? When one thinks of the most powerful breakthroughs in the history of science, one is struck by the advances of simply presenting data (or collecting data) in a way that speaks directly to the intuition, e.g., heliocentrism, the DNA double helix, structural bio in general, cartesian graphing. What about things like molecular graphics, or the ribbon diagrams and other representations which underlie them? All of these are "mere presentations" but have driven science forward incredibly. Shouldn't we focus on making more data-to-intuition translators? For example, what there was a VR interface in which the user could actually feel physical forces in protein molecules, get a touch-intuitive sense of what proteins are like? We would already "know" so much more about proteins! Jacob +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jacob Pearson Keller Research Scientist / Looger Lab HHMI Janelia Research Campus 19700 Helix Dr, Ashburn, VA 20147 Desk: (571)209-4000 x3159 Cell: (301)592-7004 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. It is strictly forbidden to share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur in the future.
