I think a wiki is a great method of working together in a community, although mailing lists are great for announcements. Forums can be recreated inside a wiki, but forums are probably easier and have less of a learning curve. I think a developer community should be sophisticated enough to handle a wiki interface though. Jeremy Swan On 10/5/06, John Beaver <jbeaver at sdsc.edu> wrote: > > We are seeking to build a developer community around the Molecular > Biology Toolkit. Unfortunately, I have no experience with this. Does > anyone have suggestions (i.e., mailing lists, forums)? Does anyone have > opinions on the need for such a community? > > > > > > Description: > > The Molecular Biology Toolkit (http://mbt.sdsc.edu > <http://mbt.sdsc.edu/> )* is a powerful Java toolkit for creating > applications which utilize structural protein data. It offers clean data > structures and (optional) visualization using the latest graphics > technologies. > > > > Success: > > It is used as a basis for three visualization tools (more on the way) > developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center for use on the RCSB PDB > (www.pdb.org <http://www.pdb.org/> ) and Immune Epitope Database > ( www.immuneepitope.org <http://www.immuneepitope.org/> ), as well as > internally by the PDB website. The viewers include: > > - ProteinWorkshop (www.pdb.org): intended as a tool for > creating publication quality images of proteins > > - EpitopeViewer ( www.immuneepitope.org > <http://www.immuneepitope.org/> ): allows the viewing of > receptor-antigen structures, incorporating data from the Immune Epitope > Database > > - Ligand Explorer (www.pdb.org <http://www.pdb.org/> ): allows > the viewing of > > > > Current status: > > - Since the visualization component is new, we are currently > integrating new representations. Currently, we are working on adding > water-accessible surface rendering, and we expect it to be finished > within the next four to five months. > > > > License: > > >From the MBT website, "Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute > any part of the Molecular Biology Toolkit (MBT) for educational, > research and non-profit purposes, without fee, and without a written > agreement, " provided they display the copyright. Commercial users would > need to contact the University of California. > > > > > > * The version of the MBT on the web site is old, and we can provide a > newer version to those interested. An official 2.0 release of the MBT, > with an incredible number of improvements will be available soon. > > _______________________________________________ > Molvis-list mailing list > Molvis-list at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list >