
Resolution solutions
Willy Wriggers
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Published February 25, 2022
A childhood gift of a microscope appears in the origin stories of many scientists, but usually it’s the seen object, with its startling new clarity, that inspires life-long curiosity. For Willy Wriggers, the fascinating aspect was the microscope itself.
A preference for the tools of the trade landed him on the front lines of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) in the technique’s early days. For more than two decades, structural biologists have been deploying his software to make sense of intermediate-resolution data they generate in their laboratories.
Wriggers, a computational biophysicist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, …
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