Visualising viruses: using molecular illustration to understand COVID-19 and influenza. 

SARS-CoV-2 materials were created in 2020 by Annabel Slater and the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0 license; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Under the terms of this license you may use, share and adapt these materials for any purpose, providing that attribution is given

Included in the data are full and simplified .FBX files of the virus model. These depict: the spike region, half a virion structure, a cross section of the virion with the core visible, and the whole virus. 

Also included are .png files containing 2D images of the SARS-CoV-2 virion, the spike region, M-protein, and an image of half the virion and videos of the models in wmv. Format 

Influenza virus materials were created by Naina Nair and the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0 license; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Under the terms of this license you may use, share and adapt these materials for any purpose, providing that attribution is given.

Included in the data are 2D, low and high resolution images of the influenza A virus particle in png. and tif. file formats.  

pdf. files of both the influenza and SARS-CoV-2 virus particle colouring sheets for public engagement are also included in this dataset.