Hi! I'm Henrique, developer of Zymulador. I'm passionate about education and science, and that's why, after years working as a graphic designer, I went back to college to study biology.

Everything was going well until I ran into an old struggle: molecular biology. I always had a hard time understanding how life works at such a small scale, and textbook diagrams always confused me.

If you're like me, you probably learn best by getting your hands dirty, poking around each part to see how it works. That's how Zymulador came to be: a program that simulates biological phenomena at the molecular scale, with whatever level of complexity you want.

What does it do?

With this program, you can toggle every component involved in a biomolecular process on and off, and jump to any step you want.

Right now, Zymulador can simulate DNA replication in single- and multi-cellular organisms. The simulation ranges from a basic explanation of nucleotides (the famous DNA letters, A, T, C, and G) all the way to watching Polymerase I remove RNA primers at the start of Okazaki fragments.

Why support it?

Zymulador is completely free. Every current simulation, and every one still to come, is free for anyone who wants to study or teach molecular biology.

With your support, I'll be able to bring new simulations to the program: protein synthesis, photosynthesis, and even the Krebs cycle.

Building and maintaining Zymulador is, for now, a one-person job. Every new simulation takes time, and keeping up that pace without cutting corners on quality is the biggest challenge right now.

By supporting this campaign, you're investing in open development for every student and teacher in the world, even those who can't contribute. You also get a say: supporters vote on what enters Zymulador's development queue next.

If you believe science should be something you get to mess around with, not memorize, let's build it together!