Summary
The NIH offers 2D bioart (bioart.niaid.nih.gov) with a public domain license, and collections of 3D models (3d.nih.gov)
Free 2D Bio Art
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has released a series of sketch art that may prove very useful to Science Communicators
2D science and medical art visuals
The 2D art sketches are available at bioart.niaid.nih.gov and can be used by anyone thanks to the Public Domain licensing. There are over 2,000 images to choose and more to be added later.
Art can be downloaded in various format for local editing AI, EPS, PNG, and SVG, or All at once in multiple colors or gray scale versions. As vector type these images will retain their resolution at any scale.
Illustrations are classified in various categories:
- Anatomy, Animals, Arthropods, Bacteria, Brushes, Cells, and, Organelles, Cellular, Processes, Equipment, Molecules, People, Plants, Proteins, Shapes, Swatches, Viruses.
An interface to choose an illustration by color or by license
- CC-BY, CC-BY-NC-SA, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-ND, Public Domain.
3D collections
NIH 3D (3d.nih.gov) is an open, community-driven portal to download, share, and create bioscientific and medical 3D models for 3D printing and interactive 3D visualization, including virtual and augmented reality.
The 3D collection is… a collection from various sources and proposes 3D models ranging from protein structures, viruses and pollen but also larger dimension models for the human body and parts.
Choices can be discovered by entering a Molecular ID
from PDB, EMDB, Uniprot, PubChem, CAS, or IUPAC
A pull-down menu can help choose Categories:
- Anatomy, Prosthetics, Devices and Hardware, Biomacromolecules, Small Molecules, Viruses, Cells and Organelles
A pull-down menu can help choose a Collection:
- Human Reference Atlas 3D Reference Object Library, Pathogen AR, SARS-COV-2, COVID-19 Response, 3D Pollen Library, Heart Library, Outbreak Exhibit, TB Portals Models, e-NABLE, VHA Office of Advanced Manufacturing, Neuroscience
A new option in the Submit
page (registration required) can produce 3D models from the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database . Simply enter a Uniprot Accession code to generate structures! New representations include coloring by pLDDT or by Predicted Alignment Error (PAE) domain..