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Product Description:
Structure is a screensaver for Mac OS X that draws on the National Center for Biotechnology Information's protein databases to display beautiful 3D protein structures on your screen. It ships with about ten sample structures and via the Internet has seamless access to a database of tens of thousands more. Regardless of whether you know anything about biology or not, the structures on your screen create a mesmerizing and informative screensaver.
Structure's features include:
Structure's features include:
- Support for five rendering styles: ball and stick, space fill, tubes, wireframe, worms
- Dynamic downloading of files from huge database
- On-screen display of additional structure information (attribution, source organism, amino acid sequence, etc.)
- Fast OpenGL rendering with multiple quality settings
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
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Can't load bundle - Version: 2.2, 9/17/2009 11:12PM PST
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MarkusWinter
On selecting the screen saver I get the error "Can't load bundle" (MBP running OS 10.5.8)
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Locked up computer - Version: 2.0, 4/26/2009 09:45AM PST
tmcdanel
This may be idiosyncratic but this screen saver has frozen my screen twice. Each time, after being left unattended all night, the vague shadow of a protein molecule was locked on the screen. The computer seemed like it was might have been functional, but i did not have an alternate monitor available. It had to be cold booted (holding down the power button) to get control. The computer was busy downloading some large files both times.
Very cool look at molecular structures of life - Version: 1.0.2, 9/6/2006 12:01PM PST
pohld
Beautifully rendered close-up view of the incredible molecular complexity that is the physical substrate of life.
It would be a genuinely educational piece of software, and get a full 5 stars from me, if it included documentation on things like the intriguing substructural elements in many molecules, such as large shimmering transluscent spheres attached by thick, white hexagonally-shaped sticks (like a wooden pencil), or the radially symmetrical patterns of balls and sticks rendered in a dwarfed form within a large tube-modelled molecule.
Of more practical urgency would be documentation explaining the various Preferences settings, like the choices for what property is represented by the molecule's colouring -- the default is "temperature". What's that mean?
One might find some of the missing documentation at the website of the open source molecular modelling software used by the screensaver, NCBI's C++ Toolkit.
A similar problem beyond the screen saver author's control is the absence of accompanying info displayed with some of the molecules. Structure downloads these models from a public database, so just like those annoying people who create mp3's with no identification of artist or song, some molecular biologists must be posting new molecules to the database without filling in the info fields. Grrr...
It would be a genuinely educational piece of software, and get a full 5 stars from me, if it included documentation on things like the intriguing substructural elements in many molecules, such as large shimmering transluscent spheres attached by thick, white hexagonally-shaped sticks (like a wooden pencil), or the radially symmetrical patterns of balls and sticks rendered in a dwarfed form within a large tube-modelled molecule.
Of more practical urgency would be documentation explaining the various Preferences settings, like the choices for what property is represented by the molecule's colouring -- the default is "temperature". What's that mean?
One might find some of the missing documentation at the website of the open source molecular modelling software used by the screensaver, NCBI's C++ Toolkit.
A similar problem beyond the screen saver author's control is the absence of accompanying info displayed with some of the molecules. Structure downloads these models from a public database, so just like those annoying people who create mp3's with no identification of artist or song, some molecular biologists must be posting new molecules to the database without filling in the info fields. Grrr...
