Demonstration of the (First) 3D PDF Published in the Journal "Nature"

This is a short homemade video showing how the "3D PDF" technology lets a user (of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader) interact with the 3D content embedded in a figure within a "normal" PDF file. The narrator is Prof. Alyssa Goodman, of Harvard University, who authored the Nature article where the figure appeared on 1/1/09.

The full version of this article is available online (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7225/full/nature07609.html), via subscription to Nature. Direct link to 3D PDF is: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7225/pdf/nature07609_3D_web.pdf.

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[EditorTiBS]

We at Trends in Biochemical Sciences share your enthusiasm for this feature and published an article by Kumar et al. in the Sept 2008 issue which demonstrates how to embed 3D models of biomolecules into PDFs. This was achieved using a combination of PyMol and Adobe's software.

As our currently featured article, it is available as a free download from the TiBS pages at the Cell Press website (the 3D version of the paper is supplemental material to the article).

Jonathan Tyzack

Editor, TiBS