[BioEdu] MolSlides for Protein Structure Education

[Eric Martz]

I'd like to invite the subscribers to this new BioEdu list to check out 
MolSlides (http://molslides.proteinexplorer.org). MolSlides are slides with 
rotating, zoomable macromolecular views, that display in a web browser. 
MolSlides can be used to illustrate lectures on protein or nucleic acid 
structure, and can easily be posted on class websites for students to 
review. MolSlides are easy enough to make that students can be assigned to 
make them for reports or homework.

MolSlides are made in Protein Explorer (PE, http://proteinexplorer.org), 
which is an easy-to-use browser-based on-line program for visualizing and 
understanding macromolecular structure. PE has extensive built-in help, 
both technical, and explanations of how to interpret its macromolecular 
views, and slides introducing structural bioinformatics 
(http://tinyurl.com/pftxo). Flash movies introduce PE to new users, saving 
you the class time that would otherwise needed for that. Once you get a 
molecular view that you like, you can save it to a MolSlide with a few 
mouse clicks.

MolSlides can be created only in MS Windows (including in Windows running 
within Intel Mac OSX, using Parallels.Com). MolSlides cannot be created on 
Mac PPC's.

However, MolSlides can use Jmol, enabling the MolSlides themselves (once 
created) to display on all common platforms (including Mac PPC OSX, Intel 
Mac OSX, linux, and Windows) in popular browsers such as Safari, Firefox, 
or Internet Explorer. Nothing specific needs to be installed in order to 
view MolSlides using Jmol (but java must be present). Examples of MolSlides 
in Jmol are at the first link at http://molslides.proteinexplorer.org.

Sincerely, -Eric Martz

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Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology
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Biochem 3D Education Resources http://MolviZ.org
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Protein Explorer - 3D Visualization: http://proteinexplorer.org
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World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources: http://molvisindex.org
ConSurf - Find Conserved Patches in Proteins: http://consurf.tau.ac.il
Atlas of Macromolecules: http://atlas.proteinexplorer.org
PDB Lite Macromolecule Finder: http://pdblite.org
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