Herpes Simplex Virus

3-D computer reconstruction from cryo-electron micrographs of herpes simplex virus capsids. Research by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. The reconstructions were calculated on DEC-VAX computers using programs supplied by Purdue University. Reference: "Liquid-Crystalline,Phage-like Packing of Encapsidated DNA in Herpes Simplex Virus", by F.P.Booy, W.W.Newcomb, B.L.Trus, J.C.Brown, T.S.Baker, and A.C.Steven, in CELL, Vol 64 pp 1007-1015, March 8, 1991.

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