Education

3D Printing of Protein Models

I am interested in improving the way to teach the structural properties of the macro-molecules (protein, DNA) for undergraduate students. For that reason I using the 3D printing technologies for print scale model of protein representation obtain from PDB database.

This representation allow to understand the type of interaction inter and intra molecular, number of residues present in secondary structures, etc.

Tutorial to convert PDB file to 3D print format (STL)

Download STL files of my protein models

Examples:

 

some useful sites:

http://3dprint.nih.gov

https://www.thingiverse.com

http://www.reprap.org/

https://makeprintable.com/item/upload#step-1