This was submitted to bioinformatics.org and approved as a new project.

Group Purpose and Summarization

Description: We wish to offer an authoring tool for educational
molecular structure tutorials, called the "Jmol Tutorial
Template". This is a javascript/HTML "shell" or "template" into
which authors can insert custom molecular views, descriptive
content and color keys. The molecular views will be displayed in
the Jmol java applet, which uses a GNU Lesser Public License.
Detailed authoring instructions will be provided. Several
examples of tutorials completed in this template will be provided
to illustrate its capabilities. Contributors to the template thus
far are Timothy Driscoll (grad student, molvisions.com), Frieda
Reichsman, Ph.D. (moleculesinmotion.com), Angel Herraez, Ph.D.
(Madrid, Spain; biomodel.uah.es), and myself, Eric Martz, Ph.D.
(molviz.org).

Purpose/Goals: Those interested in authoring new molecular
structure tutorials will be able to download the Jmol Tutorial
Template, and use it for authoring new tutorials. The target
users could be high school students or teachers, college students
or faculty, postdocs, TA's, graduate students, or staff in
chemical or pharmaceutical businesses. This project will offer an
alternative to a Chime plugin based template provided in 1997-98.
Use of (closed source) Chime has become fraught with problems,
and is rapidly being phased out.

Full Name: Jmol Tutorial Template

Unix Name: jmol-tutorials

License: Other

The software in this project is nothing terribly unique, nor very
large. In order to place no restrictions on its use, we plan to
use a Creative Commons Attribution License. This only requires
that the downloadable code and all derivatives cite the original
website. This is the same license we have used for the
FirstGlance in Jmol project already approved
(http://bioinformatics.org/firstglance/) and in use by the
journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology among others.

