August 2000 - chemweb - imperial.ac.uk

Molecule of the Month - September
by Paul May 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

Hi, September's MOTM is the first from Scotland, and has been written by 2 students at Aberdeen University. It's the new painkilling drug ABT-594, which is structurally related to epibatidine and nicotine, and has been suggested as a possible remedy for Alzheimer's disease. Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 928-9927, fax: +44 (0)117 925-1295 <mailto:paul.may@bris.ac.uk> Home URL: <http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm> Molecule of the Month: <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm> "That's inches away from being millimetre perfect" (Ted Lowe) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Client/Server strategies in Chemistry
by Frank Oellien 24 Aug '00

24 Aug '00

Hello, I was wondering if there are Client/Server related chemical publications available. Where can I find URLs about chemical Client/Server projects? With regards Frank Oellien -- Computer-Chemistry-Center and Institute of Organic Chemistry University of Erlangen-Nuernberg Naegelsbachstrasse 25, D-91052 Erlangen (Germany) Tel (+49)-(0)9131-85-26579 Fax (+49)-(0)9131-85-26566 email: Frank.Oellien(a)chemie.uni-erlangen.de WWW : http://www2.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/oellien/ http://www2.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/ChemVis/ 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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[Fwd: FW: Chemistry Pre-prints]
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 04 Aug '00

04 Aug '00

-- 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

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Chemistry Pre-prints
by Rzepa, Henry 04 Aug '00

04 Aug '00

I note with interest that the latest attempt to introduce a chemistry pre-print service ( http://www.chemweb.com/preprint?url=/CPS, this chemweb by the way having no association with this list of the same name) now has a collection of 6 pre-prints. A great deal has been written about the nature of preprints in many fora, and there would be no point in starting a major thread on this topic at this forum. But one or two comments might attract discussion! a) Have the major learned society and commercial publishers yet indicated whether they will accept articles that have been preprinted? The RSC and ACS policies are currently unclear, to say the least. The policy of Elsevier, indirectly via Chemweb.com, which it owns and which offers this preprint service, might be a particularly interesting one to find out! b) One of the preprints above reverses the issue in point a), ie its an article that has been rejected by two referees of a conventional journal, and is offered at this preprint service for us to make our own minds up! I suppose then its a postprint, or perhaps an altprint! An interesting issue, if preprint services start to offer a major component of previously rejected articles. c) I note that the the preprints above are technically quite unadventurous, ie they offer no "added value" other than electronic paper delivery and search. I would have thought that preprints especially should be augmented with additional "live" data for people to ascertain whether the conclusions drawn from it are correct. So, should preprints offer more than a "paper equivalent"? What do people think? d) Our chemistry library here recently debated whether to abandon paper entirely, and go over to e-journals. In an indication of how rapidly things are changing, last year we debated whether to augment our entirely paper based collection from a major learned society publisher with a few e-versions at extra cost. This year, we were accepting that we would have access to the entire collection electronically, and now found ourselves debating how many printed versions we should order at extra cost! Such complete dependence on e-journals is remarkable, but whether in the long term its healthy is another matter. What of countries where the infrastructures are not up to delivering e-journals? -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0)20 7594 5804 (Fax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. 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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Re: Chemistry Pre-prints
by Eugene Leitl 04 Aug '00

04 Aug '00

From: "Dr. Wendy A. Warr" <wendy(a)warr.com> Sender: CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES DISCUSSION LIST <CHMINF-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> To: CHMINF-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: Chemistry Pre-prints Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:49:42 +0100 Eugene Leitl wrote: > From: "Rzepa, Henry" <h.rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk> > Sender: owner-chemweb(a)ic.ac.uk > To: chemweb(a)ic.ac.uk > Subject: Chemistry Pre-prints > Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:24:43 +0100 > > I note with interest that the latest attempt to introduce a chemistry > pre-print service > > ( http://www.chemweb.com/preprint?url=/CPS, this chemweb by the way > having no association with this list of the same name) > > now has a collection of 6 pre-prints. > > A great deal has been written about the nature of preprints in many > fora, and there would be no point in starting a major thread on this topic > at this forum. But one or two comments might attract discussion! > > a) Have the major learned society and commercial publishers yet > indicated whether they will accept articles that have been preprinted? > The RSC and ACS policies are currently unclear, to say the least. > Harter, S. P.; Park, T. K. "Impact of Prior Electronic Publication on Manuscript Consideration Policies of Scholarly Journals". Journal of the American Society for Information Science 2000, 51(10), 940-948 (i.e., the current issue) shows that (a) editors have no policies in place (b) most are willing to consider "pre-published" papers but the atttitude varies amongst disciplines (arts and humanities least willing), and with the nature of the "pre-publication" e.g., papers previously reviewed are not favoured for "proper" publication. Wendy PS I think it is the EDITOR who decides, not the learned society, but societes can, of course, influence their editors. -- 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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RE: Other chemistry mailing lists?
by Wiggins, Gary D. 03 Aug '00

03 Aug '00

The SIRCh: Chemistry Newsgrouops and Discussion Lists page at: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/ca_cndl.html will lead you to a number of sources for the information you need. Gary D. Wiggins Chemistry Library 800 E. Kirkwood Avenue Chemistry Bldg C003 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-7102 Bus: (812) 855-9452 Bus Fax: (812) 855-6611 E-mail: wiggins(a)indiana.edu -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Rich [mailto:brich@rics.bwh.harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 8:39 AM To: chemweb(a)ic.ac.uk Subject: Other chemistry mailing lists? Can anyone suggest a good directory of mailing list discussion groups or bulletin boards for various aspects of chemistry? I would like to broadcast an announcement of a postdoctoral position for a chemist interested in medicinal chemistry and drug development. I know of several such lists concerning biological sciences but am not familiar with those concerning chemistry. Thank you, Ben Rich ******************************************************************* Benjamin Rich, Ph.D. Harvard Skin Diseases Research Center Brigham and Women's Hospital - Dermatology Harvard Institutes of Medicine - Room 660 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 USA E-mail: brich(a)rics.bwh.harvard.edu rich(a)rascal.med.harvard.edu Tel: (617) 525-5555 FAX: (617) 525-5571 ******************************************************************* 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) 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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Other chemistry mailing lists?
by Benjamin Rich 03 Aug '00

03 Aug '00

Can anyone suggest a good directory of mailing list discussion groups or bulletin boards for various aspects of chemistry? I would like to broadcast an announcement of a postdoctoral position for a chemist interested in medicinal chemistry and drug development. I know of several such lists concerning biological sciences but am not familiar with those concerning chemistry. Thank you, Ben Rich ******************************************************************* Benjamin Rich, Ph.D. Harvard Skin Diseases Research Center Brigham and Women's Hospital - Dermatology Harvard Institutes of Medicine - Room 660 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 USA E-mail: brich(a)rics.bwh.harvard.edu rich(a)rascal.med.harvard.edu Tel: (617) 525-5555 FAX: (617) 525-5571 ******************************************************************* 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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Project SEED
by Rzepa, Henry 03 Aug '00

03 Aug '00

I was alerted to this interesting site recently http://www.slb.com/seed/watch/atlarge/fullerenes/index.htm at SEED = Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development, see URL http://www.slb.com/seed/ ) -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0)20 7594 5804 (Fax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. 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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SGML viewer
by Michael Engel 02 Aug '00

02 Aug '00

Hello, can somebody recommend a SGML viewer for Internet Explorer Netscape Thanks Michael 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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Molecule of the Month - August
by Paul May 01 Aug '00

01 Aug '00

Hi, August's MOTM is the anti-cancer drug cisplatin. It has been written by Mitch Miller from the US company NetGenics, and includes HTML, Chime and Chemsymphony versions. The URL is as usual: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm ps. I'm hoping to use some of the finalists from the RSC's ExemplarChem web competition as future MOTMs, but I'm still looking for more volunteers to do pages, especially from University Depts who haven't done one before... Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 928-9927, fax: +44 (0)117 925-1295 <mailto:paul.may@bris.ac.uk> Home URL: <http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm> Molecule of the Month: <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm> "That's inches away from being millimetre perfect" (Ted Lowe) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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