I found this book very helpful to understand most cellular process, and viruses, with an intuition of how things works at these scales: https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/03...

If you want to understand more about what's happening in this video, I highly recommend the book "The Machinery of Life" by David Goodsell: https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/03...

I recommend the book not only because I personally like it, but because it was recommended to me by Shawn Douglas during a chance encounter at Dynamicland.

You are right, they move insanely fast. The average speed of a medium-sized protein is about 5 m/s. Inside an E. coli, any two proteins will encounter each other at least once a second [0] (this book is incredible).

My simulation is inaccurate in terms of Brownian motion. It is slowed down and smoothed for illustrative purposes. It should be more violent. Nice idea with blurring, I'll think about that. The code is on GitHub. It requires a VR headset, and it is frankly a little clunky and "research code" in terms of the UI. But check it out :D [1]. The next version will support larger simulations on the GPU and a more friendly UI. I have friends at the Scripps institute who work on similar stuff, check them out [2].

[0]: David Goodsell (2009) The Machinery of Life https://www.amazon.ca/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/038...

[1]: https://github.com/timdecode/LifeBrush

[2]: https://ccsb.scripps.edu/cellpaint/

Machinery of Life is a fantastic introduction to an intuition for what proteins and the mechanics of their scale.

https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/03...

Related to this type of animation, there is a great book called "The Machinery of Life" that talks abut molecular level biology with amazing illustrations. https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/03...

Synthetic biology seems like a pretty exciting area of study to me. Maybe get a copy of "The Machinery of Life", or "Regenesis".

http://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/038...

http://www.amazon.com/Regenesis-Synthetic-Biology-Reinvent-O...

The Machinery of Life [1] is a fantastic book, I was one of those curious laymen and boy did it saturate my thirst for learning about microbiology. I think it's close to the time I read it again.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Machinery-Life-David-Goodsell/dp/0...

Edit: Whoops, no Markdown support. Revised link to use footnote.