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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The picture shows the virus structure with half of the outer shell (the viral capsid, lavender) cut away to reveal the RNA genome on the inside. Only the RNA backbone is shown in the image. The red RNA double helices lie around an axis of five-fold symmetry just inside the capsid. Other RNA double helices that lie just inside the capsid are colored yellow, while the remainder of the RNA backbone is shown in pale blue. The background image is an electron micrograph of one face of the crystal from which Larson and McPherson determined the x-ray structure of the virus.
