Following my call for people interested in sharing the sim, I'm delighted to say that it will be funded for at least another year. I eventually raked together just enough internal funding to cover tier but I also have one person wanting to rent a third of the sim and another making a significant input based on a collaborative project. On top of that I had offers to go and share another sim and to have content hosted elsewhere. Marvellous stuff, especially the opportunity to work with new teachers and have their students use the island too. As I'm staying put, I've closed the Daxos shop and I'll ultimately put the freebies from there in the resource centre on the island (at the moment most are rezzed on display).
Despite appearances, the picture above is not a Halloween leftover but represents the genome of a mycobacterial phage (virus that infects bacteria related to the TB bacterium) called, yes, Pumpkin (or the somewhat less memorable Cjw1). There isn't much to show at the moment apart from the blue open reading frames (the useful bits that encode genes) offset according to which of the two DNA strands they are on (there's quite a disparity). You can run the mouse over the ORFs to see their index number and pop the chosen one up by touching it. The relevant page from the database is automagically displayed on one side of the prim and you can zoom in using the + button on the toolbar shown). Rightclick and touch the ORF prim to return it to its original position. Well, that's the theory -- there are still a few "issues" as I write and some way to go before it is useful in class.
As there are less than 150 ORFs, I've decided for the moment to explore this prim-intensive approach rather than use textures and touchpos scripts as on the giant genome.
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And I forgot to say thank-you for all the kind offers and interest. Thank-you.
That's excellent news!
What's the link to this phage genome?
Or is it private at the moment?
Not private, Chris, so much as not finished. Hence the "issues".
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