June 1996 - chemweb - imperial.ac.uk

Re: Radicals
by M.Winter＠Sheffield.ac.uk 17 Jun '96

17 Jun '96

>Does anyone know a way of getting a radical dot symbol into HTML - at the >moment I'm stuck with using the degree symbol (ie °). I'm also having >problems with equation arrows, is ---> really the best HTML can cope with? > >I guess this just shows how non-ideal the current version of HTML is for >scientists (I know HTML3 is better, but many browsers still aren't >compatible). Ironic, really, given the Web's origins! > The · construction is not OK in Explorer but OK in NetScape, however does not move it far enough from the baseline. Better is to make use of nested tags with a <BIG> tag, both OK in HTML 3.2. For example: <BIG>.</BIG> This works well in both Explorer 2.0.1 and NetScape 3.0b4, which accounts for 95% of the browsers hitting my site. It is much better than <BIG>.</BIG> As for arrows, I use a gif. OK not ideal but that's it for now. See http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/xtal/H.html for instance, but ignore the typos I've just noticed on that page! Regards 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. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ 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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ISIS/Draw 2.0 now available for academic use and personal use at home
by David Hughes 13 Jun '96

13 Jun '96

In March, 1995, we provided free licenses of ISIS/Draw 1.2 for academic use and personal use at home. I'm pleased to announce that the latest upgrade to ISIS/Draw is now available for such use. To obtain a copy of ISIS/Draw 2.0 for academic use or personal use at home, please visit our homepage at http://www.mdli.com. You can then click on the GIF image on the right to link over to the offer page. ISIS/Draw can be used as a helper application with various WWW browsers. It is also a fully-functional chemical drawing package, and can be used with a wide variety of word processors, spreadsheets, and other packages. If you downloaded ISIS/Draw 1.2 before, I think you'll appreciate the enhancements made in 2.0. And if you haven't downloaded ISIS/Draw before, I invite you to give 2.0 a try. Regards, -David Hughes ------------------------------------------------------------------ David Hughes Group Manager, Core Products, ISIS Business Unit MDL Information Systems, Inc. phone: (510) 895-1313, x.1432 14600 Catalina Street fax: (510) 352-2870 San Leandro, CA 94577 email: davidh(a)mdli.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ 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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6-Connected 3D Nets updated
by Armel Le Bail 12 Jun '96

12 Jun '96

Dear Web(SolidState)Chemists, This is to announce an updated version of the 6-Connected 3D Nets Gallery by VRML. The URL is : http://fluo.univ-lemans.fr:8001/vrml/6c3d/6c3dnets.html AB3 compounds built from octahedra sharing exclusively vertices are the subject. Rings (4), building units (10) and structure-types (7) are listed. Hyperlinks point to 51 .wrl, 71 .gif and 22 .pdb files. Three of the structure-types and four of the building units were unknown respectively before 1989 and 1990. Have fun, Armel Le Bail, Laboratoire des Fluorures URA CNRS 449 Faculte des Sciences, Universite du Maine, F-72017 Le Mans, France Tel: (33) 43 83 33 47 Fax: (33) 43 83 35 06 Email: armel(a)fluo.univ-lemans.fr Home Page: http://fluo.univ-lemans.fr:8001/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ 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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Random ChemLink
by Patrick van der Valk 11 Jun '96

11 Jun '96

Greetings fellow WebChemists, We have made a small CGI script that everybody can use and incorporate into their WebSite. It is a RandomLink generator specially for the chemical community. It is based on a database of over 1000 unique chemistry related URL's. You can have a look at it at: http://www.betacyte.pair.com/random.html If you want to use it in your own website, just put the following line into the HTML page: <a href="http://www.betacyte.pair.com/cgi-local/rand_link.pl">Random ChemLink</A> Have fun, you will never know where you might end up. * small disclaimer: some URL's might not exist anymore, we haven't checked all of them lately. But that is the nature of the (WWW) beast. * Regards, Patrick M. van der Valk, M.Sc. Technical Director +----------------------------+ | BetaCyte | | | | Complete Internet Service | | for the Chemical Community | | 0-------------------------------0 +--------------| Visit our Virtual Office | | where the coffee is still hot | | | | http://www.betacyte.pair.com | 0-------------------------------0 ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ 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: Privacy
by Patrick van der Valk 04 Jun '96

04 Jun '96

Hi Conrad, > >Just a guess: did you configure Netscape as a mailer? Then it would of >course know your e-mail address. I can't think of any other way for a >browser to come up with an e-mail address that has a good chance of >being the correct one. > Yes, but if I do not send an email from netscape, the site should not be capable of seeing my configuration in my Netscape.ini file?! If it can do that, there is much more to worry about. It must be something else. Otherwise instead of stating that my email address is caal_p3.telepac.pt, it should be capable of saying what my 'real' email address is. I have a feeling it is some type of WHOIS service. Anybody else any ideas? patrick ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ 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 chemistry
by Dean Goddette 03 Jun '96

03 Jun '96

I would like to update people on our (Tripos') progress in the area of web chemistry and let you know about a new pharmacophore detection tool using web technology called GASP. GASP is based on work in the Willett laboratory at Sheffield University (Jones, Willett & Glen, J. Comp.-Aided Mol. Design (1995) 9:532-549. The interface includes an updated visualization Java applet and deals with issues surrounding job control via the web. As many of you have seen, we previously implemented a prototype web application called "Fetch and Sketch" which can be accessed at www.tripos.com. The response to the prototype has been overwhelmingly positive. In fact, the WebSketch applet was voted one of the best Java applets of the year by Gamelan. My thanks to everyone who visited the site. The comments were extremely helpful. GASP is now installed on www.tripos.com - this is a complete installation of the program, not a mock-up, except that launching jobs has been disabled. Please check it out and sent us your comments. All feedback is welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dean Goddette, Ph.D. Senior Product Manager TRIPOS, Inc., 1699 S. Hanley Road, St. Louis, MO 63144 ph. (314) 647-1099 X3386 fax: (314) 647-9241 Tripos Announces Release of New Web-based Pharmacophore Detection Program Tripos is pleased to announce the release of GASP v1.0, a program for molecular alignment and pharmacophore detection. GASP produces better alignments than other programs because of its unique fitness function coupled with a genetic algorithm that drives the conformational search. No precalculation of conformations is needed! GASP has been implemented for use on internal company networks for sharing information with other scientists. Using tools developed for the Internet, GASP results can be viewed by scientists anywhere in the company on any platform. The only requirements are that the chemist be connected to the company network and have a "browser". GASP handles the rest. GASP can be previewed by visiting www.tripos.com. This is a complete installation of GASP, not a mock-up! Launching of jobs has been disabled but visitors can get a feel for the program directly. Tripos strongly recommends the use of Netscape Navigator 2 with GASP. GASP uses Java for some of the interactive visualization tools. Other browsers can be used but only static images will be displayed. GASP is based on work in the Willett laboratory at Sheffield University (Jones, Willett & Glen, J. Comp.-Aided Mol. Design (1995) 9:532-549. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dean Goddette, Ph.D. Senior Product Manager TRIPOS, Inc., 1699 S. Hanley Road, St. Louis, MO 63144 ph. (314) 647-1099 X3386 fax: (314) 647-9241 to:chemweb@ic.ac.uk ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ 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: Privacy
by Patrick van der Valk 03 Jun '96

03 Jun '96

Hi Gerry, >Presumably if the software can record all of your usage of Web it can >then check if on ANY occasion you used your e-mail from your machine. >Hence it can itentify your address even if on the current session you >have not used it. > I am sorry, I don't really understand what you are saying. "record all of your usage of Web"? could you please explain? Patrick ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ 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: Privacy
by Patrick van der Valk 03 Jun '96

03 Jun '96

At 09:34 AM 6/3/96 -0400, Konrad HINSEN wrote: >> Yes, but if I do not send an email from netscape, the site should not be >> capable of seeing my configuration in my Netscape.ini file?! If it can do >> that, there is much more to worry about. > >Indeed. But there is another possibility: Netscape could transmit >the e-mail address from its configuration with every HTTP request. >Not that this is a much more attractive alternative... > But then why show me that my address was caa1_p3.telepac.pt? and not my real address? >> It must be something else. Otherwise instead of stating that my email >> address is caal_p3.telepac.pt, it should be capable of saying what my 'real' >> email address is. I have a feeling it is some type of WHOIS service. > >Based on what information? > When I sign up with an internet provider, there is a file somewhere with the relevant info. Is there no way that that can be accessed? I like Pete Biggs' explaination, but I have never heard of such a thing (not that does mean much) and wouldn't I see something like: contacting host: mail.telepac.pt? Patrick ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ 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: Privacy
by pete＠physchem.ox.ac.uk 03 Jun '96

03 Jun '96

> >> >>Just a guess: did you configure Netscape as a mailer? Then it would of >>course know your e-mail address. I can't think of any other way for a >>browser to come up with an e-mail address that has a good chance of >>being the correct one. >> > >Yes, but if I do not send an email from netscape, the site should not be >capable of seeing my configuration in my Netscape.ini file?! If it can do >that, there is much more to worry about. > >It must be something else. Otherwise instead of stating that my email >address is caal_p3.telepac.pt, it should be capable of saying what my 'real' >email address is. I have a feeling it is some type of WHOIS service. > >Anybody else any ideas? A javascript (NOT java) program in a web page is certainly capable of instructing your computer to send email to another person *without you knowing about it*. From this email your true email address can obviously be found out. Pete ============================================================================== Pete Biggs :{) pete(a)physchem.ox.ac.uk Phone: 01865 275490 (Work) 01865 275410 (Fax) 0802 183421 (Mobile) ============================================================================== key to UNIX: echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq'|dc ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ 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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Privacy
by Patrick van der Valk 03 Jun '96

03 Jun '96

Greetings, I guess the situation is worse than I expected. I visited the 'anonymizer' site, just to look around. One of the files told me that I was using Netscape, Windows 3.1 (although it is really 3.11), and that my address was caal_p3.telepac.pt. The later ofcourse does not resemble my email address, so I thought I was safe. Wrong! I got an email from 'anonymizer' to my real email address. Not only did I find this scary, but I want to know how is this possible? Has this always been possible, or is this a new thing? Anybody any ideas? Regards Patrick +----------------------------+ | BetaCyte | | | | Complete Internet Service | | for the Chemical Community | | 0-------------------------------0 +--------------| Visit our Virtual Office | | where the coffee is still hot | | | | http://www.betacyte.pair.com | 0-------------------------------0 ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ 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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