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by Cat Squeezer

I'm very impressed with bpedit's ability to render challenging concepts clearly, succinctly and with a light touch of humor that helps engage the reader. The interactive models really clarify the mechanisms and help with retention of the material. Highly recommended.

by JP Noel

This app is installed on my iPad.

In my review of BioMole, I looked for similar apps to compare it with. What I found is that most apps are either too broad in scope or simply provide a mobile textbook with reference sources and flat images or the app is intended for test preparation and presents material in a “flash card” format.

BioMole is very different since its scope is limited to the understanding of the “structure and function of biological molecules and proteins”.

Textual explanations are concise and often use easily understood analogies and metaphors to drive home the point and add a bit of fun. Interactive features make the subject matter easy to explore and understand.

Navigation is easy and the app has some great features.
—“Getting Started” takes only a few minutes to get through so you’re ready to jump in quickly.

—Graphics are nice and color is used consistently and sparingly which keeps focus on the topic.

—Backlighting is adjustable from light to dark based on your viewing preference.

—The majority of structures are 3-D and can be rotated, moved and scaled (among other uses, scaling is great since you can use it to see a structure in its ball-and-stick form or space fill which is pretty helpful).

—The few short movies are very informative and nicely done.

—By far my FAVORITE feature however is the scrub bar. Instead of a movie which plays start to finish and may play too quickly for some (me), the developer employed a slide button/bar that allows you to drag through certain movies at your own speed or stop them at any point. I could actually see the applicable “action”.

There weren’t really any negatives to the app from a use and performance standpoint. Some chapters can take a little time to load but I didn’t find it annoyingly long (3-7 seconds). The developer addresses this in “Getting Started” saying that this is due to the complexity of the some of the components.

Overall, I think this is a fantastic app for the classroom, whether as an aid to a teacher’s curriculum or as a resource for individual students.