Thursday, October 31, 2013

Technical difficulty with the Gallery

The animations of protein structures in the Gallery may no longer work as they should. This is because the Jmol applet requires Java to run and the latest version of Java treats the Jmol applet as a security risk. I will update the Jmol software as soon as possible. In the meantime, Java will display security warnings to users and, even if you accept the nativeproteins site as a trusted site, many of the animation options will not function. The opening page of the Gallery provides links to the raw structure data in pdb format and it is suggested that readers download files of interest and use their own structure viewer. I apologise for this interruption. Fixing the problem is not straightforward. An update will fix the (false) security issue and will make the animations accessible on tablets and phones as well as computers, but might make them inaccessible to older computers and browsers.

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