cellPACK: A Virtual Mesoscope To Model and Visualize Structural Systems Biology

As knowledge of individual biological processes grows, it becomes increasingly useful to frame new findings within their larger biological contexts in order to generate new system-scale hypotheses. The cellPACK software integrates structural and systems biology data with packing algorithms to assemble comprehensive 3D models of cell-scale structures in molecular detail. It also led to a project to “gamify biology”– to teach students basic principles of small-scale biology in classrooms.