	The Virtual Cell Web page is entirely created by High School students working in collaboration with their teachers and each other.  It is an ongoing project and as such is not complete in all sections. The Virtual Cell Tour and Chapter 3 of the Virtual Cell textbook are most complete. We have intentionally included incomplete sections of the textbook to demonstrate the potential of the Internet to teach a variety of difficult scientific concepts using interactive 3D graphics.

	The Online Tour of the Virtual Cell Web Site requires at least Netscape Communicator 4.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0. We recommend Netscape Communicator, as it was used to design and test most of the site. 

	Some sections of the Virtual Cell textbook require the use of the Metastream Plugin. We feel that the enhanced interactivity of this Plug-in has great potential and we intent to include it in later versions of the Organic Chemistry chapter. If you wish you can install that plugin first. You will find the plugin in the Vcell Pirelli folder.

	Finally it is our intent to make the Virtual Cell as widely available as possible. Our 3D modeling students have worked in collaboration with both Biology students and language students. We have a issued standing invitation to Spanish, Portuguese, and French speaking science professionals to work with us on these translations.




	To Start the program click on the ICON entitled INDEX
