PRESS RELEASES
(8th December, 1997)
Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH
Yvonne Schickel (phone: +49-69-7917 410;e-mail: yschickel(a)beilstein.com)
Beilstein Information Systems Inc.
Timberlyn Cohen (phone: +1-303-397 2968; e-mail: tcohen(a)beilstein.com)
For Immediate Release
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Beilstein Informationssysteme Announces the Release of its CrossFire
Software Development Kit (XDK)
London, England - Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH announces the
introduction of its CrossFire Software Development Kit (XDK), a major
technology advance for CrossFire users.
The XDK enables the flexible integration of the existing CrossFire chemical
databases - including query and result handling - into the workflow
environment of the individual user. Full access to the CrossFire Server can
now be achieved by tailor-made client applications based on a collection of
function libraries and tools with a uniform programming interface, exactly
according to the specifications of the user.
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Beilstein Informationssysteme Announces Major New Initiative with
CrossFire EcoPharm
London, England - A major new initiative in the spring of 1998: Beilstein
Informationssysteme GmbH will launch CrossFire EcoPharm, a new add-on to
the highly popular CrossFireplusReactions Database, recently honoured by
Jacques Santer, President of the European Commission, with the award of the
1997 European Information Technology Prize.
Fully integrated into the existing CrossFire System, the EcoPharm Database
will be indexed from an additional sixty journals from 1995 onwards. It
comprises two main sub-areas: ecological and physiological data.
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In our dept we have been using something which we call chemmail (for lack of a
better term) for a little while.
In this message, I will briefly explain it, and then perhaps ask if anyone
could act to "beta test" to see if it can be deployed perhaps
on a wider scale.
Many of us are familar with "enclosing" say a Word document with an email
message. But this is really a very unsatisfactory way of sending chemical
content (eg 2D/3D coordinates, spectra, protein sequences, wavefunctions,
etc etc) since Word can only really handle text, or perhaps embeded
objects which might or might not be resolved by OLE at the recipients
and.
To improve matters, one might use a combination of Chime from
MDL and say the Netscape messenger 4.04 module. If a chemical data
file in one of the so called chemical MIME formats
(see http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime ) is attached to a message, a
chemical MIME header is automatically added. The recipient of such
a message can use Netscape messenger to read the message. The
attachement is shown as a hyperlink, and clicking on it invokes
Chime to display the molecule, spectrum, surface etc tc. (Chime 2 does
all of this). And hey presto, Chemmail is operation.
But of course, many people might wish to use stand-alone mailers,
such as eg Eudora or Pine. How can Eudora/Pine be trained to speak the
same Chemical MIME language? Well, proceed as follows
a) On a Mac, place the file http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemical10.sea.hqx
(after unpacking) into the same folder as your Eudora application.
Ensure you are running Eudora 3.0 or 3.1 (lite or Pro).
b) On Win Eudora 3.0, add e.g the following lines(s) to the Eudora.ini
file present in the same folder as the Eudora.exe file
both=pdb,pdb,TEXT,chemical,x-pdb
both=mol,mol,TEXT,chemical,x-mdl-molfile
(obviously, a complete list of chemical MIME types can be added
in this fashion)
c) On Unix Pine 3.9+, add e.g.
chemical/x-pdb; netscape %s
to your .mailcap file and e.g.
chemical/x-pdb pdb
to your .mime.types file
Finally, ensure that on your file system, the filename qualifier
ends in eg .pdb if you want to send a Brookhaven file.
>From now on, any combination of Eudora/Pine or Netscape
Messenger should correctly resolve chemical data files defined
by MIME types.
Well, that's the theory. We have tested three platforms here
(Mac, NT and SGI Irix) and it mostly works. Our only problem
is persuading Netscape messenger on SGI to attach the file;
it currently rolls it up into the main body of the text. We
are pondering this; if anyone has a fix, do let us know!
I am now seeking volunteers to a) receive files from us to see
if you can correctly resolve them and b) to send files to us to see
if we can correctly resolve them. If anyone has proposals for
chemical MIME tpyes not handled by the current collection, do
please contact me. Suggestions for how other mail handling systems
might be persuaded to do this are also welcome
(eg Microsoft Exchange, etc etc).
Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY;
mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804.
URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/
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Dare I suggest that with the critical mass (and the chaos) of the chemical web
now ripe, 1998 looks set to be the "year of the review". Mark Winter
has already announced the ChemDex reviews, as has the
Internet J. Chemistry, and I am sure they will not be alone.
I came across the "EBIG" site, the Encyclopaedia Britannica Internet
Guide (www.ebig.com) which purports to offer high quallity reviews
of around 65,000 sites. It appears that in the area of chemistry, they
have selected perhaps 15-20 sites, but to me at least, along with recognised
ones, there were one or two idiosyncratic ones to say the least. My "review"
of their review would rate them quite poorly.
No doubt chemists will get their house in order in 1998, but it will be
interesting to see how the dust settles. Even more interestingly, is whether
these site reviews will charge the user! So I await with relish the first site
to offer reviews of the reviewers!!
Henry Rzepa. +44 171 594 5774 (Office) +44 594 5804 (Fax)
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ELEMENTAL DISCOVERIES
http://www.camsoft.com/elemental/
CambridgeSoft are now hosting Elemental Discoveries so we have a new
URL, a search engine and a Thank You screen for anyone using the
feedback forms!
The December issue features:
One in the eye for vitamin A
Vaccines ain't what they used to be
Green tea against cancer
Thanks
David Bradley
Bradley(a)enterprise.net
http://www.camsoft.com/elemental/
PS You can still access ED through the old URL but please update your
bookmarks when you get a chance.
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Hi,
If you were not listed among the ISI's 50 Most Cited Chemists
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/citation.html ,
then you may expect to be in the ISI's 1000 ones :
http://fluo.univ-lemans.fr:8001/1000chimistes.html
Armel Le Bail - Universite du Maine - Laboratoire des Fluorures
CNRS UPRESA 6010 - Avenue O. Messiaen - 72085 Le Mans cedex 9 - France
Web : http://fluo.univ-lemans.fr:8001/
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PRESS RELEASE
(28th November 1997)
Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH
Yvonne Schickel (phone: +49-69-7917 410; e-mail: yschickel(a)beilstein.com)
Beilstein Information Systems Inc.
Timberlyn Cohen (phone: +1-303-397 2968; e-mail: tcohen(a)beilstein.com)
For Immediate Release
Frankfurt Chemical Information Company wins European IT Prize
Frankfurt, Germany - Beilstein Information Systems' chemical information
system CrossFireplusReactions has been honoured with the 1997 European
Information Technology Prize: a première for chemistry.
On Nov. 25th in Brussels, Jacques Santer, President of the European
Commission, awarded the Frankfurt-based company this prestigious prize "for
excellence in converting results from information technology research to
innovative products for the marketplace". CrossFireplusReactions is a
desktop product containing information on 10 million chemical reactions,
principally benefiting research institutions in academia and industry
worldwide.
Speaking for the company, Prof. Dr. Alexander Lawson, Director of Research
& Development, said: "We are delighted with this award in recognition of
the pioneering work performed by our Frankfurt team. Germany has a long
tradition at the forefront of chemical information, and this confirms that
our high quality workmanship in this area continues to lead the field. This
is the first time that chemical IT has won this 'Oscar'."
The prize is awarded yearly by the European Commission to the 25 most novel
products with a high IT content and evident market potential. A total of
319 entries from companies in 27 countries were considered in the course of
1997, and the award ceremony for the selected winners from all areas of
information technology took place during the EITC'97 exhibition in Brussels.
Further winners from Germany were the Munich company Hyperwave GmbH (Grand
Prize) and the Steinbeis-Transferzentrum (Heidelberg).
(c) Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH
(c) Beilstein Data by Beilstein Chemiedaten und Software GmbH,
Beilstein Institut fuer Literatur der organischen Chemie
CrossFire(tm) is a trademark of Beilstein Information.
All other trademarks are the property of their holders.
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