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Steve Koch
What's the best way to embed a pdb crystal structure into a wikipedia article? Is there a gadget that allows reader to rotate & zoom? Or is static png the way to go?
How about an animated gif rotating it? - Ruchira S. Datta
I agree that's better. I didn't know how to do it easily, so just put a snapshot in. It's my new stub article on Tus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Steve Koch
I realized what I actually want: A widget that will display a molecular dynamics trajectory of the system, while allowing user to rotate, zoom, pull on atoms, etc. ... Comp. people get to work :) - Steve Koch
One of the web widgets they offer at the PDB might work in the context of Wikipedia but I would guess this is one to have a wider conversation about? Andrew Su and Tony Williams would have an idea of the logistics at least. - Cameron Neylon
The Jmol community has been trying for a long time now to get it available in Wikipedia... you could ask on jmol-users@ ... - Egon Willighagen
For small molecules, Noel's TwirlyMol looks nice http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2009... , as it doesn't require plugins. But it doesn't seem to scale well for proteins. - Pawel Szczesny
Steve, try asking on http://sciencestack.com. - Jane Breezler
There's a long and tangentially relevant discussion here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.... As Egon alludes to, there is an effort to get the Jmol extension installed, but I don't see much activity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.... Proteopedia has Jmol: http://www.proteopedia.org. - Andrew Su
As part of the Gene Wiki effort, we uploaded ~66k thumbnail images created by the EBI to wikicommons, and categorized them by SCOP. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki... Of course, they are auto-generated so they probably don't illustrate what you'd want to illustrate.. (and certainly not an MD trajectory...) - Andrew Su
Thanks! Oh, and BTW, I was kidding about the MD trajectory, including the ability for the reader to pull on atoms in a real-time MD simulation. :) - Steve Koch
Jmol has been up for discussion for a long time. I am not aware of any movement to support it at present. You might want to put the crystal structure hosted in Jmol elsewhere and make a link to it from the Wikipedia page rather than having it in the Wikipedia article itself. - Antony Williams