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Andrew Sanderson,
Josh Polterock, and Ray Bean
at SDSC for their dedicated efforts to keep
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Caution: Although MDL Chime was the best
thing available from 1996-2004, it is now superceded by the
Jmol java applet.
New work should use Jmol rather than MDL Chime.
This site operates with
Visitor-Maintained Indices software, using java server pages
programmed by Trevor D. Kramer. History of this site:
June, 2000: This site went on-line with
only two categories (biochemistry tutorials, how-to methods
for Chime).
December, 2000: The domain MolVisIndex.Org was created.
December, 2000:
11 more categories were added, making a total
of 13 categories.
May, 2004: The Biochemistry Tutorials category was broadened
to include tutorials using any technology with rotating/interactive
molecular images. (Previously it was limited to tutorials using MDL Chime.)
May, 2004: The "Physical Molecular Models and Molecular Sculpture"
category was added; the category "Biochemistry Tutorials
not in Chime" was merged into the main "Biochemistry Tutorials" category, so
the total remained 13 categories.
October, 2006: Added new category "Molecular 3D Visualization Servers".
In academic year 2005-2006, this page was visited by
26,000 people (average 503 people/week).
Contents of the two largest categories have grown as follows:
Date
Biochemical Tutorial Entries
Free Software Entries
July 1, 2000
34
(category started December 2000)
January 1, 2001
72
13
July 1, 2001
110
23
July 1, 2002
123
36
July 1, 2003
135
46
July 1, 2004
140
56
July 1, 2005
152
75
July 1, 2006
155
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