July 1998 - chemweb - imperial.ac.uk

Training in ChemSymphony and JavaBeans
by Adam Hodgkin 16 Jul '98

16 Jul '98

Dear Internet Chemist We have announced two one-day training courses for JavaBeans in Chemistry which we will be holding in Oxford on August 6 and August 7, 1998. The first course 'Developing Intranets with ChemSymphony Beans' (August 6) is introductory and is aimed at IS managers or Computational Chemists who need a rapid overview of the JavaBeans technology for chemistry. The second course 'Java programming with ChemSymphony Beans' (August 7) is designed for programmers who have some basic knowledge of Java. Visit our www site for details, map, registration form etc: http://www.chemsymphony.com/Beans/training.html Regards Adam --- --- Adam Hodgkin | e-mail: adam(a)cherwell.com Chairman | Phone: +44 (0)1865 784810 Cherwell Scientific Publishing | Fax: +44 (0)1865 784801 Oxford OX4 4GA, UK | URL: http://www.cherwell.com --- --- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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"Smart browsing" using Netscape
by Rzepa, Henry 16 Jul '98

16 Jul '98

A significant trend over the last few months has been a realignment of MS and Netscape into "higher value" browsing. For example, I have just tried the "what's related" button on Netscape 4.5. I first went to http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ectoc/echet98/ and from there I asked for related items. I got the following ORGANIC CHEMISTRY RESOURCES WORLDWIDE 2.Exorga, Inc. - Consultants in Organic Chemistry and Molecular Modeling 3.Basic reactions in organic chemistry. 4.Photochemical Reactions of Organic Compounds 5.IUPAC Nomenclature 6.Chemexper Chemical Directory 7.Unofficial Combinatorial Chemistry Website 8.Farchan Laboratories 9.Orgo-Tek 10.ChemKey Search 11.(null) 12.Search on this Topic... apart from 11, it looks fairly relevant. No 5 in particular might be useful if one wanted to check on names of compounds found in articles in the conference. In view of the relatively low reputation Internet searches have, I am reasonably impressed by the above. Working out how it was done is more interesting. Here I speculate (I have not found a description by Netscape of the process). firstly, I thought it might be based on the keywords provided as meta-data in the actual document. these were; <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="ECTOC and ECHET98 Electronic Conferences at Chemistry Dept, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine"> <META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Rzepa, Henry S."> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="Heterocyclic, Chemistry, electronic conference, ECHET98, Keynote articles, molecule database, Daylight, Oliver Kappe, Henry Rzepa, Kanemasa, Alan R. Katritzky, Kita Yasuyuki,Albert Padwa, William Pearson, Ronald Warrener, Peter Kndig, Tom Livinghouse, Johannes Froehlich"> But changing these produced no difference in the 12 relevant topics. Removing the title similarly had no effect <Title>Electronic Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry:</title> and so I must conclude its based on a scanning of the actual body content of the document. If that is true, then what a missed opportunity! We really do need to encourage authors to insert focused and relevant metadata, and if doing so has no effect, then this will not happen!! Anyway, I would be interested if other people try the "what's related" button on the browser in a chemical content, and whether they think the result was at all helpful to them chemically. Feedback please (Oh, do Microsoft offer anything similar?) ======== PS shortly after trying this, Netscape crashed. With V4.5, I was presented with a very clever dialog which gathered information about the crash and sent it back to Netscape. I guess I trusted it in what it was sending back! Hope Netscape are not overwhelmed!! 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/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Chemistry webmasters 4 report
by Becky Allen 14 Jul '98

14 Jul '98

This is just to let you know that a report of the Chemistry Webmasters 4 meeting, linked to all the posters and presentations, is now up on chemsoc at http://www.chemsoc.org/gateway/webarticle.htm Apologies for cross-postings, and thanks to everyone who helped make the event a success once again. Becky Allen chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Fused Ring Nomenclature
by G.P.Moss 13 Jul '98

13 Jul '98

Apologies for multiple posting Nomenclature of Fused Ring and Bridged Fused Ring Systems With the appearance of the January issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry the IUPAC recommendations on the nomenclature of fused ring and bridged fused ring systems have appeared (PAC 1998, 70, 143-216). This document is the first published set of rules which attempts to comprehensively cover this class of compounds. It is a very much expanded version of the brief summary in the general Organic Rules. The Web version of this document is now available from the IUPAC Organic Nomenclature Home Page (URL below) or direct from: http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/fusedring/ For those interested in the use of this nomenclature database the latest data analysing the usage per million population by country has been plotted on a revised world and Europe map. This corresponds to about 80000 users from 97 countries. It is at: http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/usage/ Gerry Moss _________________________________________________________________________ Dr GP Moss Telephone: +44 171 775 3262 Department of Chemistry Queen Mary & Westfield College Facsimile: +44 181 981 8745 Mile End Road London E1 4NS, United Kingdom E-mail: g.p.moss(a)qmw.ac.uk World Wide Web server: http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/ IUPAC chemical nomenclature data base: http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/ IUBMB biochemical nomenclature data base: http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iubmb/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Press release
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 13 Jul '98

13 Jul '98

I have received the following press release which I reproduce verbatim. Apologies for legalese - and for any duplication. Wendy July 1, 1998 InfoChem GmbH and InfoChimia GmbH win lawsuit against Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH Munich, Germany - In the lawsuit InfoChem GmbH (Munich) and its subsidiary InfoChimia GmbH (Berlin) against Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH (Frankfurt) concerning the worldwide marketing of VINITI's structural database covering the period 1989-2000 by Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH the courts of Berlin have rendered a judgment which is final and absolute. Pursuant to this judgment Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH must abstain from offering or distributing by themselves or by a third party the VINITI database of chemical compounds and reactions. Further, the court held Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH liable for damages originated from allegations in its press release of July 25, 1997 concerning the conclusion of an agreement with VINITI on the worldwide marketing of VINITI's structural and reaction database of the period 1989-2000. This agreement was never in fact completed. In its opinion the court stated that the VINITI database without any limitation concerning the time of the literature period considered belongs to VINITI and InfoChimia due to their joint ownership. Therefore, VINITI may not dispose of any data of this file or make any contracts concerning the distribution of these data without InfoChimias consent. -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Opera: A third browser for chemists?
by Rzepa, Henry 13 Jul '98

13 Jul '98

I have just tried the Opera Web browser http://www.operasoftware.com/index.html Chemical Plug-ins such as Chime (2.0b) seem to work fine with this browser, which seems to offer an interesting alternative to the "big boys". Opera is currently Windows only, but other operating system versions are promised. 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/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Changes to CAS/Xtrn email ids
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 10 Jul '98

10 Jul '98

My apologies for duplicate copies that you may receive. I wanted this message to get wide circulation. CAS is withdrawing the "department 22" ids that it used to provide on a complimentary basis for external users such as ACS officers and editors. Almost everyone now has their own email service and the xtrn ids are no longer really needed. All ids of the type xxx22(a)xtrn.org cease to be valid effective July 17. (Mail will be forwared for a while.) In future please could you adress mail for Wendy Warr to wendy(a)warr.com NOT to waw22(a)xtrn.org. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Better URL for Drug Discovery report
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 10 Jul '98

10 Jul '98

Visit http://www.pjbpubs.co.uk/scriprep/home1.html for more details and Management Summary of the report on Strategic Management of Drug Discovery. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Phone number needed
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 10 Jul '98

10 Jul '98

The list of officers for ACS COMP on the Web does not appear to have been updated for a year or more. Please could someone supply me with a phone number and email for Frank Brown, Chair of COMP. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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Strategic Management of Drug Discovery
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 09 Jul '98

09 Jul '98

Strategic Management of Drug Discovery This new report by Wendy Warr, published by PJB Publications http://www.pjbpubs.co.uk/scriprep in May 1998, covers the new technologies such as combinatorial chemistry, ultra-high throughput screening, genomics and IT which are revolutionising drug discovery. It also discusses a range of management techniques which are enabling companies to meet commercial demands more effectively. Please excuse duplicate announcements... -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)

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