Well, first day of spring, 2013. Where are we?
-- JSmol has (at least partial) language localization in 40 languages. Not
sure anyone has ever done this before in JavaScript. It is especially nice
to see that all that hard work and contributions by many contributors
continues to a new life in JSmol.
-- We have cover images with various options. Already being used in
Proteopedia for iPad and iPhone delivery.
-- We have PyMOL session (.pse) file reading in Jmol and JSmol. Still lots
to work on there, but that includes PyMOL animation with some new
capabilities in Jmol and JSmol.
-- Optimization of JSmol for speed has reduced surface rendering, file
loading, and script execution times significantly.
-- Gzipped delivery of the code clocks in at 470 KB. That is half the size
of the Java applet, by the way. If you check
http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jsmol/test3.htm source you will see this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="JSmol.min.core.js"></script>
That's a 2.0 MB file that contains all the JSmol code needed to do most
operations. I'm told by my IT dept. that it is being delivered in GZIP
format as 470
KB, but I'm not certain that's really the case. If you know how to verify
that, I'd appreciate it. I was amazed by the amount of compression, but
that does sound right, since there is only a very limited vocabulary once
the code is Google closure compiler compressed.
The file displayed on that page is loaded from PubChem without any
scripting -- a feature enabled by a new Info item "noscript=true" which
can avoid any scripting altogether. That query takes 2 seconds, so don't
blame me for that!
-- JSME (JavaScript Molecular Editor) by Peter Ertl and Bruno Bienfait is
working beautifully in coordination with JSmol. So we have full 2D/3D
input, editing, and conversion in JSmol now. Nice to see that JSmol and
Java2Script play well with Google Web Toolkit products.Thank you, Bruno and
Peter!!!! I promise to buy you both a beer when I next make it to
Switzerland.
-- Publication of the paper, *JSmol and the Next-Generation Web-Based
Representation of 3D Molecular Structure as Applied to Proteopedia*, has
been accepted in the Israel Journal of Chemistry.
Not a bad week or two!
Next I'm going to play with TwirlyMol just to see if it's worth it to get a
super-lightweight version up as an additional option. Stay tuned....
Bob
--
Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
Chair, Chemistry Department
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.
-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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