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I would like to ask a question and add before that that I have no intent to judge, discredit or diminish the value of this. It’s merely that I really don’t understand and would like to gain insight.

The question is: How is this a scientific contribution?

Or, to ask it differently: What makes this a scientific contribution?

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It’s more of an engineering accomplishment. I could see this being useful for exploratory data analysis of large protein (mesoscale) complexes. A surprising amount of science starts with a grad student staring at a really complex plot for a really long time, then suddenly going “oh shit thats weird”. That kind of realization is terribly difficult if your visualization tools are fighting you the whole time.

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