[Foundation-l] Proteopedia

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Thought that some of you may find this interesting:

In the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, there's a
MediaWiki-based project called Proteopedia: http://proteopedia.org/ .

It is a Wikipedia-inspired database of proteins and other molecules.
The project is supervised by professors from the institute, so the
data is supposed to be reliable. Most of the data is CC-BY-SA / GFDL,
so it can be reused in Wikipedia (there are some exceptions; see Terms
of Service at the bottom of the page).

Note that the images of the molecules are animated; you can click them
and then move them to see them at different angles and zoom in and out
using the mouse wheel. Also, try clicking the green links under the
images - it shows you different views of the molecule (i'm a linguist,
so i don't know what it actually means, but if you're into Biology or
Chemistry, you'll probably understand). This is done using Jmol, an
LGPL-licensed Java applet, so maybe it can be used in Wikipedia in the
future.

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אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
Amir Elisha Aharoni

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