Hi, ~ I am impressed with JMol but your browser applet examples (e.g.) ~ http://www.worldofmolecules.com/3D/dna_3d.htm ~ http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/pe/protexpl/htm/top.htm?id=1d66&&&chpa=true ~ to me look more like a viewer, than an actual content browser per se. ~ I'd wish it would include animations, semantic zooming/specification (from/to atomic, molecular, cellular, multi-cellular/biological, functional levels), and cross annotations, references and linking. ~ animations (animated reactions (probably based on known chemical bondings)): say, you want to watch reactions as they happen (plain chemical reactions on a physical level, transcription in eukaryotic cells, ...) ~ semantic zooming/specification: you would zoom in/out to actually see how related molecules and cells interact (molecular binding needs energy what would be the effect of their lack ...), ... ~ cross annotations, references and linking: while you read a related text by selecting any part of the text (say something you don't understand) the corresponding part on the graphical representation will be shown/zoomed and/or highlighted ~ Can you point me to any such or similar examples? ~ I notice some users have requested annotations and I read through some threads, among them: "Record animation option within Jmol" ~ http://www.mail-archive.com/jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg12964.html ~ I think there is an easier way to do that. ("easier" if you are using Linux ;-)) you could simply do a screen capture of a window of your screen and stream it as an mpg file and even record your own voice with a standard microphone ~ What I am talking about may sound senseless or esoteric for you, but for example I coded myself the references and linking part that I mentioned for a representation of Euclid's Elements in which the textual explanations, formulaic representations and the graphical rendering were linked, so if a student was reading the textual part the could hover the mouse over it and see how it relates to the graphical representation. ~ I am a theoretical Physicist (group theory of solid-state/fairly well trained in Chemistry) and a professional Java programmer. I could dive into your library if you find my RFE valid/meaningful and feel like culturing them. I am (like anyone else) currently busy doing more than one thing, so it all comes down to logistics: ~ Do you have documents describing the inner working of your software? ~ Even if you are a good developer you will have questions when you don't have a mental map/thorough understanding of the inner working and design philosophy behind the code. How fast would you answer "newbies" questions? ;-) ~ thank you lbrtchx
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