Computer programs, such as those from Pixar, that are used for animated movies are now also being used to portray molecules and how they interact. This program has allowed scientists to created movies or animations used to explain their hypotheses of what they think is happening inside cells. It is with this, that they might even be able to find new discoveries. It is easy for scientists to created three-dimensional cells, however, getting them to interact is the hard part. For this they rely on the same program that Pixar uses called Maya. The problem with this program is inputting the scientific data into it. They created a Maya toolkit program for free that allows scientists or anybody really to download it to use for protein structures. They believe that with more research and higher ability to use programs like this, that it will lead to some possible discoveries.
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091211/full/news.2009.1132.html
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