at 12.20a EDT on 2003 December 02 Tuesday Egon Willighagen said: > On Sunday 30 November 2003 18:32, Miguel Howard wrote: > > I would like to welcome Tim Driscoll as the newest Jmol Developer. > > > > Tim has been helping out recently, so you have probably seen his name on > > emails. He is now officially a member of the Jmol development team. > > Welcome Tim. > hi Egon,
> Can you introduce yourself a bit (in addition to the bits Miguel already > gave), and tell a bit on what you plan to contribute/help with? > certainly. I am an independent media producer and interface designer specializing in molecular visualization for science education. My formal background includes a MS in biochemistry from the University of Delaware (1991), and another in molecular and cell biology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1999). currently, I live in wake forest, north carolina, about 30 minutes from Duke University. Since 1998 I have worked with a number of publishing companies, to produce of mol vis projects for science textbooks, as well as several university professors. Highest on that list is my continuing collaboration with Eric Martz at UMass Amherst, who has played a central role in my career (such as it is). I have written several accessories to Eric's Protein Explorer, including a script recording mechansim. I am involved in various non-commerical ventures, including an initiative to build a peer-reviewed library of digital learning objects sponsored by the ASBMB and AAAS. I have also worked as a molecular graphic artist, scientific and technical consultant, and in my off-hours I build small utilities that I hope benefit the mol vis community as a whole. recently, I began working with Tim Herman at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, to combine computer mol vis with physical modeling of proteins. most of my work is available through my Web site <http://www.molvisions.com/>. (since I host all of my Web, mail, file, and DNS services locally on my own LAN, I suppose I could add sysadmin to my list of skills now ;-) most of my programing experience has been limited thus far to javascript and html; a majority of my projects have been custom user interfaces built on top of MDL Chime, designed to run in a Web browser. For the sake of brevity, let's just say I have become quite discouraged after 5+ years of battling with Chime. it has some extremely powerful and useful properties, but its development path has been severely mis-managed. a viable replacement is necessary for the education community to continue to benefit from mol vis, and for me to continue my present career. I think Jmol is very promising software; I hope to build future resources around the applet, and contribute any way I can to its development. my primary contribution will be as a consultant on issues related to chemistry and biochemistry. however, I also hope to be able to make some small contributions to the codebase itself; I have a passing familiarity with Java and have long wanted to expand my skills. I have added support for nucleic acids to the scripting language, and I am currently working to expand the capabilities of the 'within' command. with much guidance from Miguel, I might add! I appreciate the opportunity to help, and to join your team. please feel free to contact me directly if you feel my input would be helpful; I also follow the jmol-users and jmol-dev email lists. regards, :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN's Audience Survey. Help shape OSDN's sites and tell us what you think. Take this five minute survey and you could win a $250 Gift Certificate. http://www.wrgsurveys.com/2003/osdntech03.php?site=8 _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
