Reaction : chemistry 101

    Reaction: Chemistry 101 is created exclusively for Aldrich by Madpea Productions in association with Orange Island.

   Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Their biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high technology manufacturing.

    For more info on events at Sigma-Aldrich in SL, visit http://sialisland.wordpress.com

It is a serious game, an ‘interactive mad science game’ where players travel to lab stations at various locations around Aldrich’s sims, and perform unique experiments.    

To help you perform these experiments, you should have received a HUD, a Chemistry Book.Use this book to collect the materials needed for the experiments, as well as for instruction on the experiments themselves.

     You will have to find the 9 hidden stations and materials yourselves. A notecard provide the 9 SLURL : stations and materials are very close to them.

 

The goal of the game is to create a firework.

    About MadPea Productions:
    MadPea Productions is devoted to interactive games in Second Life. Their website at http://www.madpea.com to learn more. All players are registered online  and the statistics on Reaction are included in a  Statistics page on the website. http://www.madpea.com/stats_Reaction.php

Go there , to play this game : SLURL

Monolith – a protein rezzer

 

This week-end, Monolith a new molecular rezzer has been presented at the 2009 Virtual World Best Practice in Education Conference.

http://www.iste-community.org/xn/detail/2280708:Event:15394

It look like a well-known black box :

But it’s a rezzer working like show on this slide :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/3388162070/in/set-72157615940384816/

A great work of Erich Bremer (the same name inSL ! – http://www.ebremer.com), Associate Director, Medical Informatics @ School of Medicine, State University at Stony Brook.

But this tool use TOO MANY prims ! It will be better to use it on an opensim !

The website of this tool :
http://secondlife.som.stonybrook.edu

Flux The media of the sim link to : http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/6tna

 

SLURL :

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SBU%20Medical%20Center/58/26/27

Give me the landmark ! little molecule…

References :

http://slbiology.blogspot.com/2009/01/visit-to-monolith.html

http://piensl.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/monolith-rapid-molecular-visualization-for-second-life/

Best healthcare places in Second Life

Ready ! They are ready : 24 landmarks dedicated to healthcare (and some others to chemistry).

2 others on first floor are for SLoodle (for elearning) and ISI (for more web & SL ressources).

Click on it and each landmark provide the teleport landmark and some information about the place in a notecard.

They are all made in the JoKay Wollongong’s style :

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Go to EAHP exhibition website and click on the ‘Teleport now’ button to visit the place.

To help people to visit, the 12 most important are in a free tour HUD.

NMR spectroscopy game in Second Life

NMR spectroscopy is a great method to identify organic molecules and so most of the therapeutic active compound. Very useful in pharmacy.

The NMR spectrum viewer is a SL spectral viewing tool working on Second Nature sims.

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2008/04/nmr-viewer-in-second-life.html

1O months later, this viewer is combined with the Orac molecule rezzer, and ChemSpider Open Data spectra.

Now it’s a game with 5 rounds: the NMR game !

Goal : Five times to find the right molecule of 5 corresponding NMR spectrum displayed

The game is set up on the American Chemical Society sim.

SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/ACS/245/9/25

I LOVE this game ! It work fine.

 The top 15 lists

Reference : Chemistry activities in Second Life

For all details,  have a look at this great post :

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2009/02/nmr-game-on-second-life.html

Exhibits on atomic orbitals

Image via Wikipedia

A video showing four 3D interactive exhibits on :

• atomic orbitals,
• selection rules,
• and absorption spectra.

For more information :

http://slusage.com/chemistry.asp

Amino World

Wednesday june 11th, 12 PM SLT, it was the unveiling of Andra Renard’s Amino World Exhibit on ACS Island.

Amino World is an interactive and educational display that helps students identify amino acid residues in proteins.

Each amino acid has a distinctive side chain (R group) with special functions in a protein. For example : lysine has an alkaline amine that helps a protein bind to the acidic phosphates of DNA.

The Amino World exhibit is organized in five peptides, each composed of four amino acids of related structure.

To identify an amino acid, click the button in the tower nearby, or click an R group within the molecule. The R group will announce its name and fly out at the avatar. The avatar can then manipulate the R group until it disappears (in one minute) or copy the R group into one’s own inventory.

To visit : SLURL

Source

And … we have now easily proteins in SL with the  Hiro Sheridan’s Sculpted Protein Generator

Ex : cholinesterase scupltie texture  

Source

The SL Lab of Caia Alter

                         The lab

In his first life, Caia Alter is Gus Rosania, an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Michigan College of Pharamcy.

He have his own virtual lab for scientific visualization, simulations and communication.

• SLURL : Second Nature (149, 36, 21)

In first life, his lab  is at:

• Research interests at the college of pharmacy
  http://sitemaker.umich.edu/pharmaceuticalsciences/grosania/research_interests
• http://sitemaker.umich.edu/pharmaceuticalsciences/pharmsci/gus_rosania

And his Open Notebook Lab is at:  http://1cellpk.wikispaces.com

His blog : 1CellPK blog http://1cellpk.blogspot.com/

His work :

Network of Exploratory Centers for Cheminformatics Research
http://neccr.org/
A Cell-Based Molecular Transport Simulator for Pharmacokinetic Prediction and Cheminformatic Exploration
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/mpohbp/2006/3/i06/abs/mp060046k.html

                      Chat @ the lab

Exploring Nano

Earing the professor Mario Ioannidis, director of the nanotech engineering program @ the University of Waterloo.
posted by Daneel Ariantho on Nanotechnology using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

UPDATE : Troy’s post and the audio of this event

The importance of patents for scientists

Tru Indigo (Sue Scott IRL) speak us about patents at the Second Nature Cafe. She is, a patent attorney working as a consultant to Abel & Imray in London. Before that, she acted as an advisor on patent matters to the UK government on a number of occasions, was Head of Patents at BTG and originally began life with a chemistry degree from Oxford.

More : http://network.nature.com
posted by Daneel Ariantho on Second Nature using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

 

 

 

Orac : the new Molecule Rezzer of Hiro Sheridan

A Second Life molecule rezzer , named Orac,

that accepts InChI, InChIKey, and SMILES input, queries 3 different web services, and rezzes the 3D minimized molecule.

Video shot on Second Nature Island.

Many thanks to Rajarshi, the folks at chemspider.com, Jean-Claude Bradley (Horace Moody in SL), and Eloise for advising me on how to get the most out of llhttprequest.

Read about it here, and another project (3D periodic table) here.

Hiro Sheridan / Andrew Lang IRL