Teachers and students will be able to log onto The Embryo Project and view in unprecedented detail the development of each embryo in four dimensions. Teachers will be able to download reconstructions for teaching purposes. They will be able to rotate the early developing embryo, select groups of cells, or individual cells, in order to follow tissue development, morphogentic events, and the differentiation of cell lineages. In the fifth year of development, a java based virtual reality system will be implemented so viewers can zoom into select embryos and view them from inside-out

As a teaching tool, it will be unique and informative, for students ranging from elementary school through college, and can be integrated into general biology courses and specialty courses, and as Developmental Biology and Embryology.

Researchers will be able to log onto the website view the development of nine embryos of interest, and obtain information in the diagrams of normal development and then be applied to studies of mutants and wild states. The Facility will respond to specific requests for quantization, and will spawn visits by scientists who wish detailed quantization, or the reconstruction of mutant or derived embryos. The Facility will assist the researchers in the outlining process and the reconstruction of the movies. All such information will then be placed on the website after publication for public use.