{"id":7619,"date":"2016-08-30T16:55:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2024-03-25T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T09:17:55","slug":"1608-visualising-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/science\/1608-visualising-science\/","title":{"rendered":"See data in a new light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"p1 wp-block-heading\">Tilt your head<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"p1 wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"s1\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/author\/margaux-phares\/\">Margaux Phares<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-7665 vf-u-width__40\"><figure class=\"vf-figure  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-inline-start  \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Lenticular-3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"380\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Lenticular-3.gif\" alt=\"&quot;On a lenticular poster, if you just move your head to a different angle instead, the data is much clearer.\u201d DATA: EMBL\/Natalia Wesolowska. VISUALISATION: Stefan G\u00fcnther and Gustavo de Medeiros\" class=\"wp-image-7665\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">&#8220;On a lenticular poster, if you just move your head to a different angle instead, the data is much clearer.\u201d DATA: EMBL\/Natalia Wesolowska. VISUALISATION: Stefan G\u00fcnther and Gustavo de Medeiros<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">When it comes to lenticular posters, shifting your perspective is as simple as moving your head: What you see standing at one end of the poster may not be the same at the other end. But for several labs at EMBL, converting microscopic data into a 3D poster allows biologists to see what they never knew about before \u2013 from where proteins interact with a folding tissue, to how a <em>Drosophila<\/em> embryo develops. \u201cWe almost never see just a sharp surface,\u201d EMBL scientist Stefan G\u00fcnther points out. \u201cWe see reflections, we see shadings, we see noise.\u201d For these reasons, visualising data in 3D can paint a more striking picture of the science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cWhen you go back and forth on the computer screen and rotate a structure in 2D, you have to have the first structure in your head,\u201d EMBL scientist Gustavo de Medeiros says. \u201cBut on a lenticular poster, if you just move your head to a different angle instead, the data is much clearer.\u201d Life in Perspective, an exhibit to be showcased at the Heidelberg City Library in October and November 2016, will explore this medium by bringing small structures to larger scales. \u201cThe nucleus of the cell looks like a mountain, which is familiar to us,\u201d G\u00fcnther says. \u201cThat is one of the things scientists and society as a whole can benefit from \u2013 by showing real data as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"vf-divider\"\/>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"p1 wp-block-heading\">Play a video game<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-7623 vf-u-width__40\"><figure class=\"vf-figure  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-inline-start  \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1608-3D-correlation-ib.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"333\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1608-3D-correlation-ib.jpg\" alt=\"Besides alerting colleagues to how poorly human intuition can do at this task, the Guess the Correlation game is collecting data Wagih hopes will help to reveal what kinds of graph people are most likely to guess wrong \" class=\"wp-image-7623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1608-3D-correlation-ib.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1608-3D-correlation-ib-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Besides alerting colleagues to how poorly human intuition can do at this task, the <a href=\"http:\/\/guessthecorrelation.com\/\">Guess the Correlation <\/a>game is collecting data Wagih hopes will help to reveal what kinds of graph people are most likely to guess wrong<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Games are a powerful teaching tool, and scientists have turned to video games to gather data and crowdsource solutions to biological questions. But it turns out gaming can also be a way for scientists to improve their skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Omar Wagih, a PhD student in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/research\/beltrao\">Beltr\u00e3o group<\/a> at EMBL-EBI, created a game called <a href=\"http:\/\/guessthecorrelation.com\/\">Guess the Correlation,<\/a> which challenges players to do something that scientists often must do: look at a graph showing dots plotted on two axes, and estimate how tightly linked \u2013 how correlated \u2013 the variables represented by those two axes are. Even seasoned scientists can get caught out, he says. \u201cSometimes people are so confident in their answer that they believe that the chart is wrong,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve had people emailing me saying \u2018there\u2019s no way this is right, something\u2019s wrong with your game,\u2019 and I\u2019ll send them the data so they can check for themselves, because the game was right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides alerting colleagues to how poorly human intuition can do at this task \u2013 and collecting data he hopes will help to reveal what kinds of graph people are most likely to guess wrong \u2013 Wagih says he has anecdotal evidence that players improve after playing repeatedly, implying this could be a way for scientists to hone an important skill. \u201cI\u2019m so much better at it now,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen I play it alongside friends, they\u2019ll say \u2018that\u2019s a .6,\u2019 or something, and I\u2019ll say \u2018no, it looks more like a .43\u2019 \u2013 and my guess will be closer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"vf-divider\"\/>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"p1 wp-block-heading\">Put on a headset<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of putting on a headset and stepping into your data may sound like science fiction, but some scientists say virtual reality could help us understand data better. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embl.de\/research\/units\/scb\/alexandrov\/\">EMBL group leader Theodore Alexandrov<\/a> wishes he\u2019d had access to the technology a few years ago, when he was working with collaborators studying the different molecules on the surface of lichens. \u201cLichens are such curly and intricate structures with parts sticking out at all possible angles, that it\u2019s really difficult to recognise its shape on a photo or a 2D map. Does this part face sunlight or shade? Are these two parts touching each other?\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with something as familiar as the human body, seeing things in 3D can make it more intuitive to generate hypotheses, Alexandrov argues: \u201cIt was way easier to understand data looking at even a simple 3D visualisation than when you\u2019re looking at a spreadsheet!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"vf-blockquote\"><p>With new technologies like this, you never know what you can do until you actually start playing around<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Virtual reality could also help biologists engage with colleagues from other disciplines, says Alexandrov: \u201cA black and white image might mean a lot to experts, but for computer scientists it\u2019s like something from the stone age. If you can show them something in VR, that\u2019ll grab their attention!\u201d Ivan Protsyuk, a bioinformatician in Alexandrov\u2019s team who is exploring how virtual reality could be used in the lab\u2019s own research, is aware that to become truly useful for scientific research, the technology will have to become more practical. \u201cIt would need plug-ins for programmes that scientists already use, and it would have to become simple enough to just put on the headset, look at something, then put down the headset and carry on working,\u201d he says. \u201cBut with new technologies like this, you never know what you can do until you actually start playing around,\u201d adds Alexandrov.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"vf-divider\"\/>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"p1 wp-block-heading\">Hold it in your hand<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-7624 size-full vf-u-width__40\"><figure class=\"vf-figure  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-inline-start   is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1608-3D-printing-ib.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1608-3D-printing-ib.jpg\" alt=\"3D print of a Platynereis dumerilii. DATA: EMBL\/Hernando Martinez Vergara. PRINT: EMBL Photolab\" class=\"wp-image-7624\" width=\"155\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1608-3D-printing-ib.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1608-3D-printing-ib-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">3D print of a Platynereis dumerilii. DATA: EMBL\/Hernando Martinez Vergara. PRINT: EMBL Photolab<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">As 3D printing technology becomes more mainstream, it is making its way into the lab, too. \u201cAt first I wanted to have 3D printed things for how cool this technology is,\u201d Hernando Martinez Vergara, a PhD student in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embl.de\/research\/units\/dev_biology\/arendt\/index.html\">Arendt group<\/a> at EMBL, admits. \u201cBut I was highly surprised to see that having a volume in your hand is way more telling than having it on a screen. I have spent dozens of hours looking at <i>Platynereis<\/i>\u2019 body plan on screens, but just a few seconds of playing around with a 3D printed model revealed so many details I could not believe it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Christoph M\u00fcller, Joint Head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embl.de\/research\/units\/scb\/index.html\">Structural and Computational Biology Unit<\/a>, says the same is true of his work in structural biology. \u201cIt really gives you a different perspective \u2013 you can literally \u2018get to grips\u2019 with things,\u201d he says. \u201cI sometimes take the model of a molecule and try to see where the active site would be, where things fit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing, gaming, virtual reality and lenticular posters bring new perspectives to 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