ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Janet Iwasa - Molecular animator


Why you should listen
While we know a lot about molecular processes, they can’t be observed directly, and scientists have to rely on simple, two-dimensional drawings to depict complex hypotheses. That is, they did until now. Janet Iwasa’s colorful and action-packed 3D animations bring scientific hypotheses to life, showing how we think molecules look, move and interact. Not only is molecular animation a powerful way to illustrate ideas and convey information to general audiences, it’s also a powerful tools for inspiring new research. However, 3D molecular animation using commercial software requires skill and time, so Iwasa has created a simpler 3D animation software tool for biologists, allowing researchers to intuitively and quickly model molecular hypotheses. In 2014, she launched the beta of her new free, open-source animation software, Molecular Flipbook, which allows biologists to create molecular animations of their own hypotheses in just 15 minutes.
More profile about the speaker
Janet Iwasa | Speaker | TED.com
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Janet Iwasa: How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis

Janet Iwasa: Kako animacije mogu pomoći znanstvenicima da testiraju hipotezu

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3D animacija može oživjeti znanstvene hipoteze. Molekularni biolog (i TED Fellow) Janet Iwasa predstavlja novi animacijski softver otvorenog izvora dizajniran baš za znanstevnike.
- Molecular animator
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Take a look at this drawingcrtanje.
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Pogledajte ovaj crtež.
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Can you tell what it is?
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Možete li reći što je to?
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I'm a molecularmolekularna biologistbiolog by trainingtrening,
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Ja sam molekularni biolog u izobrazbi,
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and I've seenvidio a lot of these kindsvrste of drawingscrteži.
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i vidjela sam puno ovakvih crteža.
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They're usuallyobično referreduputiti to as a modelmodel figurelik,
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Oni se nazivaju figurama modela,
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a drawingcrtanje that showspokazuje how we think
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crtež koji prikazuje kako zamišljamo
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a cellularćelijski or molecularmolekularna processpostupak occursjavlja.
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da se odvija stanični
ili molekularni proces.
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This particularposebno drawingcrtanje is of a processpostupak
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Ovaj crtež prikazuje proces
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calledzvao clathrin-mediateduz posredovanje clathrin endocytosisnjihovoj.
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naziva endocitoza potaknuta klatrinom.
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It's a processpostupak by whichkoji a moleculemolekula can get
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To je proces kojim molekula može doći
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from the outsideizvan of the cellćelija to the insideiznutra
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izvana stanice unutra
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by gettinguzimajući captureduhvaćen in a bubblemjehurić or a vesiclemjehurić
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tako da ju se uhvati u mjehurić
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that then getsdobiva internalizedInternalizirani by the cellćelija.
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koji onda prihvati stanica.
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There's a problemproblem with this drawingcrtanje, thoughiako,
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Postoji problem s ovim crtežom,
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and it's mainlyuglavnom in what it doesn't showpokazati.
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i to u onome što ne prikazuje.
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From lots of experimentspokusi,
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Iz puno eksperimenata,
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from lots of differentdrugačiji scientistsznanstvenici,
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od puno različitih znanstvenika,
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we know a lot about what these moleculesmolekule look like,
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znamo puno o tome
kako te molekule izgledaju,
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how they movepotez around in the cellćelija,
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kako se kreću u stanici,
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and that this is all takinguzimanje placemjesto
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i da se sve ovo događa
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in an incrediblynevjerojatno dynamicdinamičan environmentokolina.
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u izuzetno dinamičnom okruženju.
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So in collaborationkolaboracija with a clathrinclathrin
expertstručnjak TomasTomas KirchhausenKirchhausen,
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U suradnji sa stručnjakom
za klatrin Tomasom Kirchhausen,
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we decidedodlučio to createstvoriti a newnovi kindljubazan of modelmodel figurelik
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odlučili smo stvoriti novu figuru modela
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that showedpokazala all of that.
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koja je pokazivala sve to.
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So we startpočetak outsideizvan of the cellćelija.
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Pa smo počeli izvan stanice.
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Now we're looking insideiznutra.
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Sada gledamo unutra.
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ClathrinClathrin are these three-leggedtri noge moleculesmolekule
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Klatrini su ove tronožne molekule
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that can self-assemblesamostalno sastaviti into soccer-ball-likekao nogometna lopta shapesoblika.
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koje se mogu složiti u oblike
poput nogometne lopte.
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ThroughKroz connectionsveze with a membranemembrana,
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Kroz povezivanje s membranom,
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clathrinclathrin is ableu stanju to deformdeformirati the membranemembrana
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klatrin može deformirati membranu
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and formoblik this sortvrsta of a cupkupa
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i napraviti ovakvu šalicu
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that formsobrasci this sortvrsta of a bubblemjehurić, or a vesiclemjehurić,
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koja se formira
u ovaj mjehurić ili šupljine,
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that's now capturinghvatanje some of the proteinsproteini
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koje sada hvataju neke bjelančevine
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that were outsideizvan of the cellćelija.
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koje su bile izvan stanice.
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ProteinsProteini are comingdolazak in now that
basicallyu osnovi pinchprstohvat off this vesiclemjehurić,
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Bjelančevine koje dolaze
sada otkinu šupljinu,
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makingizrađivanje it separateodvojen from the restodmor of the membranemembrana,
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odvajajući je od ostatka membrane,
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and now clathrinclathrin is basicallyu osnovi doneučinio with its jobposao,
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i sada je klatrin završio s poslom,
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and so proteinsproteini are comingdolazak in now —
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i bjelančevine dolaze sada —
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we'veimamo coveredpokriven them yellowžuta boja and orangenarančasta
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pokrili smo ih žutom i narančastom —
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that are responsibleodgovoran for takinguzimanje
apartosim this clathrinclathrin cagekavez.
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oni su odgovorni za rastavljanje
klatrinskog kaveza.
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And so all of these proteinsproteini
can get basicallyu osnovi recycledrecikliran
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I sve ove bjelančevine se recikliraju
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and used all over again.
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i koriste opet iznova.
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These processesprocesi are too smallmali to be seenvidio directlydirektno,
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Ovi procesi su isuviše maleni
da bi ih se vidjelo direktno
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even with the bestnajbolje microscopesmikroskopi,
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čak i najboljim mikroskopima,
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so animationsanimacije like this providepružiti a really powerfulsnažan way
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tako da ovakve animcije daju moćan način
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of visualizingvizualizirati a hypothesishipoteza.
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vizualiziranja hipoteze.
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Here'sOvdje je anotherjoš illustrationilustracija,
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Ovdje je još jedna ilustracija,
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and this is a drawingcrtanje of how a researcherIstraživač mightmoć think
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i ovo je crtež onoga
kako bi istraživač mogao zamišljati
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that the HIVHIV-A virusvirus getsdobiva into and out of cellsStanice.
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da HIV virus ulazi i izlazi iz stanica.
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And again, this is a vastogroman oversimplificationpojednostavljivanje
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I ponovno, ovo je veliko pojednostavljenje
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and doesn't beginpočeti to showpokazati
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i ne počinje prikazivati
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what we actuallyzapravo know about these processesprocesi.
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što zapravo znamo o tim procesima.
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You mightmoć be surprisediznenađen to know
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Možda ćete se iznenaditi
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that these simplejednostavan drawingscrteži are the only way
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da su ovi jednostavni crteži jedini način
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that mostnajviše biologistsbiolozi visualizevizualizirati
theirnjihov molecularmolekularna hypotheseshipoteze.
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za većinu biologa da vizualiziraju
svoje molekularne hipoteze.
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Why?
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Zašto?
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Because creatingstvaranje moviesfilmovi of processesprocesi
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Jer stvaranje filmova procesa
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as we think they actuallyzapravo occurdoći is really hardteško.
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kako zamišljamo da se odvijaju
je stvarno teško.
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I spentpotrošen monthsmjeseci in HollywoodHollywood
learningučenje 3D animationanimacija softwaresoftver,
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Provela sam mjesece
u Hollywoodu učeći 3D animacijski softver,
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and I spendprovesti monthsmjeseci on eachsvaki animationanimacija,
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i potrošila sam mjesece
na svaku animaciju,
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and that's just time that mostnajviše
researchersistraživači can't affordpriuštiti.
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i to je jednostavno vrijeme
koje istraživači nemaju.
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The payoffsisplate can be hugeogroman, thoughiako.
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No profit iz toga može biti ogroman.
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MolecularMolekularne animationsanimacije are unparalleledbesprimjeran
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Molekularne animacije su besprimjerne
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in theirnjihov abilitysposobnost to conveyprenijeti a great dealdogovor of informationinformacija
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u svojoj mogućnosti
da prikažu velike količine informacija
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to broadširok audiencespublika with extremekrajnost accuracytočnost.
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velikoj publici sa ekstremnom točnošću.
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And I'm workingrad on a newnovi projectprojekt now
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I radim na novom projektu sada
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calledzvao "The ScienceZnanost of HIVHIV-A"
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koji se zove "Znanost HIV-a"
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where I'll be animatingAnimiranje the entirečitav life cycleciklus
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gdje ću animirati cijeli životni ciklus
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of the HIVHIV-A virusvirus as accuratelytočno as possiblemoguće
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HIV virusa što je točnije moguće
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and all in molecularmolekularna detaildetalj.
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i sve u molekularnim detaljima.
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The animationanimacija will featuresvojstvo datapodaci
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Animacija će sadržavati podatke
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from thousandstisuća of researchersistraživači
collectedprikupljeni over decadesdesetljeća,
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tisuće istraživača
prikupljenih tijekom desetljeća,
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datapodaci on what this virusvirus looksizgled like,
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podataka o tome kako virus izgleda,
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how it's ableu stanju to infectzaraziti cellsStanice in our bodytijelo,
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kako može zaraziti stanice u našem tijelu,
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and how therapeuticsTherapeutics are
helpingpomoć to combatborba infectioninfekcija.
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i kako lijekovi pomažu
u borbi protiv infekcije.
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Over the yearsgodina, I foundpronađeno that animationsanimacije
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Kroz godine, shvatila sam da animacije
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aren'tnisu just usefulkoristan for communicatingkomuniciranje an ideaideja,
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nisu samo korisne za predstavljanje ideje,
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but they're alsotakođer really usefulkoristan
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nego su korisne
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for exploringistraživanje a hypothesishipoteza.
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i za istraživanje hipoteze.
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BiologistsBiolozi for the mostnajviše partdio are
still usingkoristeći a paperpapir and pencilolovka
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Biolozi većinom koriste papir i olovku
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to visualizevizualizirati the processesprocesi they studystudija,
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da vizualiziraju procese koje proučavaju,
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and with the datapodaci we have now,
that's just not good enoughdovoljno anymoreviše.
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i sa podatcima koje imamo sada,
to više nije dovoljno.
03:34
The processpostupak of creatingstvaranje an animationanimacija
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Proces stvaranja animacije
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can actčin as a catalystkatalizator that allowsomogućuje researchersistraživači
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može biti katalizator
koji dozvoljava istraživačima
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to crystalizekristal and refinepročišćavanje theirnjihov ownvlastiti ideasideje.
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da kristaliziraju i pročiste svoje ideje.
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One researcherIstraživač I workedradio with
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Jedan istržaivač s kojim sam radila
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who worksdjela on the molecularmolekularna mechanismsmehanizmi
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koji radi na molekularnim mehanizmima
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of neurodegenerativeneurodegenerativnih diseasesoboljenja
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neurodegenerativnih bolesti
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camedošao up with experimentspokusi that were relatedpovezan
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smislio je eksperimente
koji su bili povezani
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directlydirektno to the animationanimacija that
she and I workedradio on togetherzajedno,
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direktno s animacijom
na kojoj smo radili zajedno,
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and in this way, animationanimacija can
feedstočna hrana back into the researchistraživanje processpostupak.
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i na ovaj način, animacija može dati
povratnu informaciju u istraživački proces.
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I believe that animationanimacija can changepromijeniti biologybiologija.
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Vjerujem da animacija
može izmijeniti biologiju.
04:00
It can changepromijeniti the way that we
communicatekomunicirati with one anotherjoš,
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Može izmjeniti način na koji
komuniciramo jedni s drugima,
04:02
how we exploreistražiti our datapodaci
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kako istražujemo podatke
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and how we teachučiti our studentsstudenti.
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i kako podučavamo učenike.
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But for that changepromijeniti to happendogoditi se,
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Ali da bi se ta promjena dogodila,
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we need more researchersistraživači creatingstvaranje animationsanimacije,
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moramo imati više istraživača
koji rade animacije,
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and towardprema that endkraj, I broughtdonio togetherzajedno a teamtim
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i u tom smjeru, sastavila sam tim
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of biologistsbiolozi, animatorsanimatora and programmersprogramera
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biologa, animatora i programera
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to createstvoriti a newnovi, freebesplatno, open-sourceotvoreni izvor softwaresoftver
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koji stvaraju novi,
besplatni software otvorenog koda —
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we call it MolecularMolekularne FlipbookSlikovnice
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Zovemo ga Molekularna slikovnica —
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that's createdstvorio just for biologistsbiolozi
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koja je kreirana isključivo za biologe
04:22
just to createstvoriti molecularmolekularna animationsanimacije.
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za stvaranje molekularnih animacija.
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From our testingtestiranje, we'veimamo foundpronađeno
that it only takes 15 minutesminuta
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Iz naših testiranja utvrdili
smo da treba 15 minuta
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for a biologistbiolog who has never
touchedganut animationanimacija softwaresoftver before
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da biolog koji nikad nije vidio software
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to createstvoriti her first molecularmolekularna animationanimacija
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stvori prvu molekularnu animaciju
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of her ownvlastiti hypothesishipoteza.
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vlastite hipoteze.
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We're alsotakođer buildingzgrada an onlinena liniji databasebaza podataka
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Također gradimo online bazu podataka
04:39
where anyonebilo tko can viewpogled, downloadpreuzimanje datoteka and contributedoprinijeti
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gdje svatko može vidjeti,
preuzetii i doprinijeti
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theirnjihov ownvlastiti animationsanimacije.
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vlastite animacije.
04:43
We're really exciteduzbuđen to announceobjaviti
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Uzbuđeni smo jer možemo najaviti
04:45
that the betabeta versionverzija of the molecularmolekularna animationanimacija
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da je beta verzija alata za
04:48
softwaresoftver toolkitalat will be availabledostupno for downloadpreuzimanje datoteka todaydanas.
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molekularnu animaciju
dostupna za preuzimanje danas.
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We are really exciteduzbuđen to see
what biologistsbiolozi will createstvoriti with it
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Zaista smo uzbuđeni
vidjeti što biolozi mogu stvoriti s tim
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and what newnovi insightsuvidi they're ableu stanju to gaindobit
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i kakva će nova otkrića pronaći
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from finallykonačno beingbiće ableu stanju to animateanimirati
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kada napokon budu mogli animirati
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theirnjihov ownvlastiti modelmodel figuresfigure.
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vlastite figure modela.
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Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Ivan Stamenkovic
Reviewed by Senzos Osijek

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Janet Iwasa - Molecular animator


Why you should listen
While we know a lot about molecular processes, they can’t be observed directly, and scientists have to rely on simple, two-dimensional drawings to depict complex hypotheses. That is, they did until now. Janet Iwasa’s colorful and action-packed 3D animations bring scientific hypotheses to life, showing how we think molecules look, move and interact. Not only is molecular animation a powerful way to illustrate ideas and convey information to general audiences, it’s also a powerful tools for inspiring new research. However, 3D molecular animation using commercial software requires skill and time, so Iwasa has created a simpler 3D animation software tool for biologists, allowing researchers to intuitively and quickly model molecular hypotheses. In 2014, she launched the beta of her new free, open-source animation software, Molecular Flipbook, which allows biologists to create molecular animations of their own hypotheses in just 15 minutes.
More profile about the speaker
Janet Iwasa | Speaker | TED.com

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