C. David Barry and Edgar Meyer Collection of Molecular Science 16mm Films

C. David Barry joined Cy Levinthal's molecular biology lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1966 as a post-doc with a PhD in Physics from Manchester University. At the MIT lab, he created interactive 3D protein structures and visualization programs using MIT's new computer graphics system, Project MAC. He worked at the MIT lab for two years before it closed when Levinthal left for Columbia University. Barry was then involved in developing molecular graphics facilities at Washington and Oxford Universities. He later worked for Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (a computer research company that would later become Raytheon BBN), before he moved to AstraZeneca to work in biomedical imaging.

After obtaining a PhD in Chemistry in 1960 from the University of Texas, Edgar Meyer began working with computer generated molecular structures as a post-doc in Cy Levinthal's molecular biology laboratory at MIT in the mid-1960s. In 1967, Meyer accepted a job as a professor at Texas A&M University (TAMU) where he established the Biographics Laboratory. During the summers in the late 60s and early 70s, he created the programs DISPLAY and SEARCH for Brookhaven National Laboratory and worked on the ambitious networking project CRYSNET, which linked datasets at Brookhaven, TAMU, and Fox Chase Cancer Center. This work laid the foundation for the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, graduate students at Meyer's lab continued to make advances in molecular imaging and software, creating models that often pushed the limits of what computer memory at the time could support. Meyer retired from TAMU in 2003 and passed away in 2015.