Apologies for citing my own articles, but
http://www.ijc.com/articles/2000v3/7/
(Hierarchical display of Chemical Data in Web Browsers )
and
http://www.ijc.com/articles/2000v3/8/
(A Mechanism for Creating Chemically Oriented Internet Search Channels )
relate to earlier postings to this list.
May I also remind people of the following
(Posted by Steve Heller to a number of other lists. Apologies
to those who have already seen it)
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This is just a short note to remind eveyone that the web Abstract
Submission deadline for papers to be considered for ChemInt2000 oral
presentations is June 1, 2000. The web submission form is operational for
the Chemistry and the Internet (ChemInt2000) meeting being held in at
Georgetown University in Washington DC on September 23-26, 2000.
The draft program of invited speakers, workshops, markup langauge
tutorial, and panel sessions is available on the meeting web site:
http://www.chemint.org
You are urged to look at the program and to consider submitting a
poster paper to the meeting. Some 8-10 of poster papers will be selected
for oral presentation at the meeting.
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Colleagues,
I have been approached by someone seeking a one-to-two week course on
cheminformatics this summer, preferably in the US.
Do not reply to the whole list!!
Please reply directly to Maria Kontoyianni (MKontoyi(a)prius.jnj.com) with
copy to me if you like.
Wendy
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Hello every,
Recently, we developed a unique modified starch technology and we want to apply it
to industry. But we need investment and we are not very clear about the market
situation. Can anybody give me some advice about where to find investors who will be
interested in develop chinese market or apply this technology to some foreign
countries. And if anyone is interested in it, can join us. My tel number can be
found at the auto-signature. If you are interested in it, I can give you more
details about it.
Thank you very much for your kind reply. The following is the introduction of our
technology. If the following message annoy you, I will be terribly sorry for
that.
A starch-originated substitute for the peach gum
On the outer package of some food grade material or product, adhesive agent is
needed to disperse different pigments and coat on to paper. The essential
characteristics for the agent include dispersivity, adhesiveness, levelling,
rewetting and film forming capability.
Originally, Arabic gum was chosen as the main adhesive agent. It can satisfy most
purposes. However, Arabic gum is relatively expensive. Later it was substituted
partly by refined peach gum. The dark brown sticky liquid peach gum gel has been
proved effective in most circumstances. Its price is much cheaper than Arabic gum.
Recently because the demand for peach gum has increased, and the quality of this gum
depends on productive regions, on the processing technology and on the weather, end
users of these natural gums suggested the possibility to substitute them to some
degree with starch derivatives. For starch is plentiful and relatively cheap.
Great efforts have been paid on research to find out suitable substitutes derived
from different kinds of starch. In China several companies and research institutes
showed interest in pursuing this goal. After more than half a year perseverance, a
modified maltodextrin has been prepared which can meet the demand. In many tests,
this kind of maltodextrin showed superiority over peach gum. For example, it is pale
yellow, rather than dark brown; when used to disperse pigments like Red 5FRK and
phthalocyanine blue, this maltodextrin gives out more satisfactory coating layers on
paper.
To prepare such modified maltodextrin, first the starch is liquefied to soluble
maltodextrin, then undergoes chemical reactions at the presence of certain
catalysts. Before concentration, the reacted material is clarified and purified.
The samples demonstrated good levelling and adhesive power, its dispersivity,
hydrophilicity and film forming characteristics are better than peach gum, it also
has rewetting ability. It is estimated that the cost for producing this maltodextrin
will be economic if on a reasonable scale. It will be a competitor to the peach gum.
Have a nice day!
Sincerely,
chen zhong-ping
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National Bioengineering Research Center
East China University of Science and Technology
Meilong Road,130
Shanghai,200237
P.R.China
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ICQ:5763589
Tel:86-21-64241083
Fax:1-240- 2698896(US)
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This message is posted to four lists. Please excuse duplicates.
The full text of my presentation on "cheminformatics" and the shortage
of skilled personnel in the discipline (a presentation given at an ACS
COMP division symposium held in New Orleans in August 1999), is now
available (FREE) in Warr Zone at
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Hi Henry,
I have just been playing with Netscape 6 on PC. Your test 11 is
fine, but there is a problem with Chime on PC too - the
Chime installer says there is no browser in the directory.
Please can you do me a favour and tell me if curly arrows works on a
Mac in Netscape 6. The current url is
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/curly-arrows/
[There are a couple of new problems on PC: all the images are
loading with the top part missing, and in the Electronics section the
fonts for the deltas have gone wrong on the active screen (but not on
the legend).]
Regards
Mary
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Dr Mary Masson
Department of Chemistry
University of Aberdeen
Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB24 3UE
Tel 01224 272931 Fax 01224 272921
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I have occasionally posted regarding the characteristics of various Web browsers.
Since recently the first release of Netscape 6 was posted (previously known
as Mozilla) I thought I would report on some aspects of its behaviour.
We have created a little test page at http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/tests/
which attempts to test various ways of invoking chemical content, both
legacy and the forward looking XML variety.
Netscape 4 has some problems with HTML 4 standards, particularly
tests 11-13. As it happens, Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5 does not do at
all better on these tests, implying that proper support for the HTML
4 standard is patchy. There is ONE browser that did pass the tests, icab
for Macintosh!
Now I find that Netscape 6 for Mac (not tried Windows yet) sort of
passes these tests. Test 11 is fine; Test 12 only fails because the Chime
plugin is not happy with Netscape 6 (this may be different on
Windows).
Netscape 6 is not yet totally happy with XML (we have another set of
tests for this which I will release shortly) but seems to be getting there!
When its finished, it looks like it will go a long way to catching up with
IE5, and in areas such as mobile phones etc, may even overtake it!
By the way, does anyone have any chemical pages written in WML
(Wireless markup language, essentially a very simple HTML). I
note in this context that "basic" XHTML is also being proposed for
wireless devices.
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