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	Protein Explorer (~~[http://proteinexplorer.org~~ ProteinExplorer.Org])<ref>Protein Explorer: Easy Yet Powerful Macromolecular Visualization. Eric Martz. ''Trends in Biochemical Sciences'', '''27''' (February):107-109, 2002.</ref> was a free macromolecular visualization software package, written largely by [[User:Eric Martz\|Eric Martz]] from 1998-2006, that worked in the Firefox web browser. It was designed for students and educators, but because of its power and ease of use, was also widely used by researchers. In 2003, it won the [http://about.merlot.org/MERLOTAwards/2003awards.html Merlot Classic Award] for Exemplary Learning Materials in Biology: "Protein Explorer has revolutionized the teaching of biology at a molecular level.".		Protein Explorer (formerly at ProteinExplorer.Org])<ref>Protein Explorer: Easy Yet Powerful Macromolecular Visualization. Eric Martz. ''Trends in Biochemical Sciences'', '''27''' (February):107-109, 2002.</ref> was a free macromolecular visualization software package, written largely by [[User:Eric Martz\|Eric Martz]] from 1998-2006, that worked in the Firefox web browser. It was designed for students and educators, but because of its power and ease of use, was also widely used by researchers. In 2003, it won the [http://about.merlot.org/MERLOTAwards/2003awards.html Merlot Classic Award] for Exemplary Learning Materials in Biology: "Protein Explorer has revolutionized the teaching of biology at a molecular level.".

	Protein Explorer utilized the [http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/abtchime.htm MDL Chime] browser plugin (which does 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 works fully only in the [http://getfirefox.com Firefox] web browser and only in Windows. Because of these problems, and because one must download and install the Chime plugin in order to use it, '''Protein Explorer's use has been declining since 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 does 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 works fully only in the [http://getfirefox.com Firefox] web browser and only in Windows. Because of these problems, and because one must download and install the Chime plugin in order to use it, '''Protein Explorer's use has been declining since about 2005, and its development ceased in 2007'''.