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For those just seeing a huge mess: This is a visualisation of most (everything?) we know about what's in a human cell. It shows molecules (except water some stuff dissolved in it) in their full 3D structure (to scale) . We can actually see the macro structure those can take, e.g. DNA (blue strand at the bottom) is actually a coiled coil, cell membranes (pale golden stuff) is a bilayer, etc.

It really shows how busy and complex life is.

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It really is only a small amount of what we know. Look for example at the KEGG pathway list (https://www.genome.jp/kegg/pathway.html), which is a curated list of pathways (so also only a part of what we know, albeit a larger). And this visualization depicts a dozen or so of these pathways.

That metabolic pathway diagram is utterly insane.

The Roche Biochemical Pathways posters are also a nice display of the complexity within biological systems: http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1

> It really shows how busy and complex life is.

...and it's "just" a cell, we have billions of them. Some die, some come into being every moment. The individual cells may depend on each other for survival, but it's still a mystery how all of this function and cling together into a big warm blob without falling apart into individual pieces.

One word: Amazing.

How was this done? Raytracing? If yes, what was the resolution of the spacial data?

Must be big, I see that the full-sized render is 2000x2400: http://www.digizyme.com/images/pf_cstlandscape_full.jpg?crc=...

Would love to experience a VR version of this

it's not everything at all, it's missing all the cell cycle circadian rhythm stuff

It's a tiny fraction of what we know.

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