One of the most powerful yet little-recognized benefits of visualization is the way it synthesizes our knowledge and externalizes our mental models of the science.
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G.G.M. is co-founder and CEO of Digizyme, Inc., a firm specializing in scientific visualization, and creator of the https://clarafi.com portal and Molecular Maya (mMaya) software.
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McGill, G.G. Knowledge synthesis through scientific visualization. Nat Microbiol 7, 185 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-01048-x
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