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Not really. I do think it makes sense as a design. I'm just saying it looks like chrome to me and I think a lot of other users will think similarly.

I like it, but I'm seeing some serious similarities to chrome. If I had not seen this announcement and I quickly glanced at those screenshots, I would not think it was Firefox.

Pretty good. A small tutorial or help page in game would go a long way though... plenty of users will install without thoroughly reading the description.

It does look like they're providing their results for free.[1]

That makes a lot more sense. You're paying to host the virtual "organism", not paying for the sim itself.

[1] http://www.openworm.org/downloads.html

They call it "open", then turn around and charge ~$50 to access the web-browser version of the sim for a year? Doesn't feel very open to me.

I recognize just how important C. elegans is to neural/bio research, and how ambitious the project probably is. I just think this would be so much cooler if they were offering it to all curious minds free of charge.