December 1995 - chemweb - imperial.ac.uk

The ChemExper Chemicals Directory
by h.rzepa＠ic.ac.uk 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

I have tried this database, and it appears very useful! >From: denonne(a)chor.ucl.ac.be (Frederic Denonne) >Subject: The ChemExper Chemicals Directory > >With this article, we would like to introduce you with a concept regarding >chemical information: a free searchable chemicals catalog on the Web. >How does it work ? >Using a Web browser, like Netscape (R), you connect to our server at the >following URL: > > http://www.chemexper.be > >Right there, you are prompted to search for a defined chemical. >There are currently three ways to search for a chemical: by formula, by >name or by CAS registry number. (A sub-structure search engin will be >included next year) > >Click on the submit button and within 5 minutes (most searches take less >than 1 minute) you obtain the result of your search as a list of hypertext >links of products matching your query. > >Clik on a link and info on that product appears. This info usually contain >physical data as well as safety information, 2D structure and for some >products, NMR spectrum. >And this is entirely free! >Moreover, if you find that we don't have info for a defined chemical (only >10,000 compounds currently), you can send it to us and we will include it >in our database mentionning your name (as a hyperlink for example). Any >kind of info can be included (3D structures, Ms/IR/NMR spectra, ...) >Please contact us to define a common format. > >If you are a company, you can put your catalog in this database and we will >provide a link to your page so as to allow direct on line ordering for >clients. In this case only, you'll have to pay a fee for this kind of >advertising. > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Frederic Denonne http://c267b.chor.ucl.ac.be >Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Belgium http://www.ucl.ac.be >Organic Synthesis Division (ORSY) http://www.chor.ucl.ac.be >Voice: + 32 10 47 87 54 Fax: + 32 10 47 41 68 >-------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Henry Rzepa, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. World-Wide Web URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Global Chemweb?
by Paul May 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

Hi, > Echoing the suggestion here we > floated the idea of a 'molecule of the week' but it didn't get off the > ground. Superb idea! Why don't we all volunteer to find out information about one particular molecule each and put it up as a web page. A central coordinator (Henry?) can then nominate a 'molecule of the week' from the submitted pages. All the UK web sites could then put a pointer to that particular page for that week on their home pages. It might be a way of increasing interest in the Web, and build up a database of molecular information at the same time. To get undergrads interested, I'd suggest the pages weren't too 'heavy', keep them simple, informative and interesting... Anyone agree? Anyone keen to make a molecule of the week page? > The central thing is that there should be an easy way of mounting > cgi-scripts and editing them. (Remember that almost all forms require a > cgi-script to process them.) A library of cgi tools would be extremely > valuable. If anyone has a database engine that can process the results > that is extremely valuable (we looked at /rdb - the author gave us some > help - but we didn't have enough resource). > IF we can get a collection of resources I am sure that otehrs will add to > it rather than duplicating it. Yes, yes, yes! I've been pestering our computer centre for 6 months to provide me with useful cgi programs to do things like make password protected areas, hot images, search engines, page access counters, stats packages, etc, but they still haven't done it. A centralised resource like this, eg on an ftp site, would be invaluable! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may(a)bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "Another squashed hedgehog in the gutter of the information superhighway" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: Global Chemweb?
by h.rzepa＠ic.ac.uk 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

>We might want to contact CTICC (Computers in teaching initiative centre >for Chemistry) at Liverpool, and their equivalents in say, Physics, & >Medicine to see if they're interested. Maybe the CTI could orgainise >a web conference, and we produce a Chemistry parallel symposium? CTI were a trifle slow in recognising the potential of the Web (if fact, did not the Webmasters meet clash with one of theirs?). Anyway, I would not wish it to be totally dominated by teaching. Although I personally take teaching seriously, it is still regarded by many as a poor cousin to research themes and funding. If we push teaching too strongly, it may be mis-interpreted. Are we convinced that a one day conference, say starting at 10 and going till 5, and with posters, is excluded? This would ease accomodation problems and hence cost. Dr Henry Rzepa, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. World-Wide Web URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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re:web software management
by 14CONOLEG＠CLUSTER.NORTH-LONDON.AC.UK 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

Hi I have only being connected to the internet since the summer. It would be interesting to know what % of chemistry academics are connected so far. The university has a sun unix box as a web server. I put some of my stuff in an allocated space on the unix in particular feedback questionnaires (which uses a program developed by Phil Richards from Hull Univeristy). More general hypertext documents and a series of interactive tutorials written using Authorware are kept in my Vax area. I am hoping in the near future to set up a departmental server, presumably unix based. Grainne ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Web Management Software
by h.rzepa＠ic.ac.uk 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

There has been a recent spate of annoucements for management software of Web Sites. The best known is SiteMill from Adobe (http://www.ceneca.com/Products/SiteMill.html) which is not yet quite shipping, and is likely to be expensive. Then, along comes Clay Basket which looks equally powerful, appears to be entirely free (http://www.hotwired.com/userland/yabbadabba/) and comes with Frontier, a powerful scripting environment. and from CE Software, WebArranger (http://www.cesoft.com/) of which the first 5000 copies appear to be free. I have not yet tried any of these, but I do notice that ALL THREE are Macintosh products only! As you might guess, I am less familiar with Windows-95 and Windows-NT solutions. Does anyone know if they exist for these platforms? A few months ago, I would have said that Unix based Web server solutions were probably the best. However, with this flow of software coming along for the Mac (and Windows?) I am less certain now. Might I ask the list to respond with say a) the platform they have chosen to serve from b) whether site management software is yet in regular use? Our own server is SGI, on which we run NCSA HTTP 1.4 as the production server, with Netsite and Hyper-G as experimental servers (may also try out Apache). Site management is currently Hyper-G as an experiment and also Harvest. PS If you wish to respond, don't change the subject line, so we can maintain the thread! Dr Henry Rzepa, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. World-Wide Web URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: Web Management Software
by bruno＠chemcrys.cam.ac.uk 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

> > Might I ask the list to respond with say > > a) the platform they have chosen to serve from > b) whether site management software is yet in regular use? > Ours is running on a VAX. The machine is practically dedicated to the WWW server which is CERN HTTP 3.0. No site-management software. Ian Bruno CCDC ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: Web Management Software
by M.Winter＠Sheffield.ac.uk 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

We use some kind of SUN thing located not-in-chemistry, and better, not maintained by me. I just have write access to the chemistry directory. However we also wish for the flexibility offered by WebStar + AppleEvents + AppleScript on a Mac server and will setting up a chemistry-only Mac server shortly. Dr Mark J Winter (Deputy Head of Department, Director of Studies) Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 282 4498 fax: +44 (0)114 273 8673 e-m: M.Winter(a)Sheffield.ac.uk web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html CU-SeeMe: mac043078.shef.ac.uk ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: Web Management Software
by Stephen Le Hunte 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

> I have not yet tried any of these, but I do notice that ALL THREE are > Macintosh products only! As you might guess, I am less > familiar with Windows-95 and Windows-NT solutions. > Does anyone know if they exist for these platforms? > WebQuest for NT (http://www.questar.com/webquest.htm) is a Windows NT based server, including graphical site management package. It is the only server to include SSI as well (server side includes) and comes bundled with Webmeister (the graphical management software) and WebEdit (the superior HTML editor - also available from http://wwwnt.thegroup.net/webedit/webedit.htm) There is also a separate version for Win95 I believe (although maybe it's the same one). A trial version is available from the web site, the full price being....well, I couldn't find it anywhere, but it ain't cheap I don't think. > Might I ask the list to respond with say > > a) the platform they have chosen to serve from > b) whether site management software is yet in regular use? > I'd be interested in seeing how many departments have a dedicated server. I'm trying to (slowly) convince people that a dedicated server for the department would be worthwhile, but it's proving hard. (We don't even have control over the server that is actually in our department yet - this is the kind of thing some of us are up against) We just get space on the college's web server (that caters for all departments). I've no idea what the machine is, but the server software is Apache, although I have no other knowledge of it. So, how many of the 'Webmasters' on the list, are also server maintainers?? Stephen ------------------------------------------ Stephen Le Hunte (cmlehunt(a)swan.ac.uk) Author of the HTML Reference Library ftp://ftp.swan.ac.uk/pub/in.coming/htmlib/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: Web Management Software
by Jeffrey J Gosper 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

We also use a Sun Workstation as our server running SunOs. The software we use is NSCA server /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Dr. Jeff Gosper Dept. of Chemistry BRUNEL University Uxbridge Middx UB8 3PH, UK voice: 01895 274000 x2187 facsim: 01895 256844 internet/email/work: Jeffrey.Gosper(a)brunel.ac.uk internet/WWW: http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~castjjg \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Web Management Software
by Paul May 08 Dec '95

08 Dec '95

Hi, We use a Sun Workstation as our server running SunOs. The software is the Cern server. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may(a)bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "Another squashed hedgehog in the gutter of the information superhighway" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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