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Protein Explorer utilized the [http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/abtchime.htm MDL Chime] browser plugin (which did the interactive molecular rendering, much as the Jmol applet does in Proteopedia). Although free, Chime was not open-source, and had very little development in the early 2000s. There was never a Chime for Mac OS X, and even on Windows, getting Chime to work was occasionally problematic. Protein Explorer worked fully only in the [http://getfirefox.com Firefox] web browser and only in Windows. Because of these problems, and because one needed to download and install the Chime plugin in order to use it, Protein Explorer's use began declining about 2005, and its development ceased in 2007. | Protein Explorer utilized the [http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/abtchime.htm MDL Chime] browser plugin (which did the interactive molecular rendering, much as the Jmol applet does in Proteopedia). Although free, Chime was not open-source, and had very little development in the early 2000s. There was never a Chime for Mac OS X, and even on Windows, getting Chime to work was occasionally problematic. Protein Explorer worked fully only in the [http://getfirefox.com Firefox] web browser and only in Windows. Because of these problems, and because one needed to download and install the Chime plugin in order to use it, Protein Explorer's use began declining about 2005, and its development ceased in 2007. | ||
Protein Explorer was, at least in part, re-designed to use open-source [http://jmol.org Jmol] by [http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/ Bob Hanson] (the major developer of Jmol in recent years). This version is available at [http://jmol.proteinexplorer.org Jmol.ProteinExplorer.Org]. | Protein Explorer was, at least in part, re-designed to use open-source [http://jmol.org Jmol] by [http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/ Bob Hanson] (the major developer of Jmol in recent years). This version is available at ???<!--[http://jmol.proteinexplorer.org Jmol.ProteinExplorer.Org]-->. | ||
Although Protein Explorer (Chime version) was somewhat fussy to get working, it had some powerful capabilities, unmatched in ease of use, that make it worth the effort for some projects. | Although Protein Explorer (Chime version) was somewhat fussy to get working, it had some powerful capabilities, unmatched in ease of use, that make it worth the effort for some projects. | ||
