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MOTM
by Paul May 01 Oct '96

01 Oct '96

Hi, October's MOTM is now ready. It's water, which may sound commonplace, but there's a lot of fascinating information I didn't know about it... It was written by Shawn Huston from Tripos, and the direct URL is: http://Walden.MVP.Net/~shawn/motm/index.html and as usual, it's can be reached via the link at the MOTM site at: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may(a)bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "Put your message in a modem and throw it in the cybersea" - Rush, 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- 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: Internet Assistant 2.0
by Stephen Le Hunte 30 Sep '96

30 Sep '96

Henry, > I tried it out on a complex Teaching timetable I had set in word > (one with five days of hour slots along the top, and 26 weeks along > the side) and using a Macintosh. > Word converted this to HTML very nicely, and included stuff like > ..... <snipped for brevity> I too have tried the IA and found it particularly useful for creating complex tables from almost any document (any doc. that Word can handle anyway). They only ever require minor tweaking, but it is much easier than creating the table from scratch. Also, it is not only Netscape that supports coloured tables. This was introduced by Internet Explorer, although that may only support it on the Windows 95/NT platform (I only use it on NT). Netscape followed suit, adding coloured table support, but have probably supported it on all platforms. I agree about the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes, they could easily be added, but for what it is targetted at (i.e. those working converting existing Word processed documents), it does produce quite impressive results most of the time. Notepad (or HomeSite maybe if you're using Windows 95, or whatever the Mac equivalent of Notepad is) still beats all comers to the HTML editor crown though, in my humble opinion. Cheers Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Le Hunte (cmlehunt(a)swan.ac.uk) Author of the HTML Reference Library, currently at v3.0 http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/~le387818/ For discussion about the HTMLib (and other conferences), visit http://hjs.geol.uib.no/webstart.htm (after logging in, join the HTMLib conference) ----- 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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Internet Assistant 2.0
by Rzepa, Henry 27 Sep '96

27 Sep '96

IA V 2.0 is available at http://www.microsoft.com/word/internet/ia/sysreq.htm I tried it out on a complex Teaching timetable I had set in word (one with five days of hour slots along the top, and 26 weeks along the side) and using a Macintosh. Word converted this to HTML very nicely, and included stuff like <TD WIDTH=21><FONT SIZE=5 COLOR=#FFFFFF FACE="Zapf Dingbats">À</FONT> for the various little characters I had inserted in the cells. The only thing it did not do is colour the individual cells as I had (only Netscape supports this anyway). It also converts and scales all embedded images to GIF format, handles subs and sups etc. A very painless (albeit slow) way of converting from Word directly to Web format, with very little further fine-tuning required! My only gripe is that it inserted images as <IMG SRC="Image1.gif"> It would not have taken much effort to put a width= and height= value in, and the use of "Image1" appears preset by the program, which could cause conflicts if more than one document is converted in the same folder. Anyone with other experiences? Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ (Eudora Pro 3.0) ----- 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[2]: Merck Index and relatives
by BTOWN＠derwent.co.uk 25 Sep '96

25 Sep '96

On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: >> Does anyone know of any new-ish products comparable in content and >> usage to the newly issued Merck Index on CD-ROM >I'd be intersted in more details here - i.e. what information is on >the CD-ROM, what format(s), and whether there is software on the >CD_ROM and for what platforms. I assume that it replaces/augments >the paper Merck index and is therefore a commercial product (i.e. not >on the WWW). The Merck Index CD-ROM was recently published by Chapman & Hall. The software is similar to other C&H CD-ROMs (i.e. Head's text search and HDS' PsiBase for structure handling). I am copying this to Jane Macintyre at Chapman & Hall who will be able to provide more details. In reply to the earlier question, Derwent publishes the World Drug Index on CD-ROM. It is not a new product so I won't supply details to the list but I would be happy to provide information offline. Bill Town, Business Development Manager, Derwent Information Ltd. 14 Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5DF Phone: +44 171 344 2940 Fax : +44 171 344 2821 Email: btown(a)derwent.co.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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Merck Index and relatives
by David Bradley Science Writer 25 Sep '96

25 Sep '96

Does anyone know of any new-ish products comparable in content and usage to the newly issued Merck Index on CD-ROM TIA db -------------------------------------------------------- | David Bradley, Science Writer | | Bradley(a)enterprise.net | | Tel/Fax +44 1223 440834 (Intl) | | Tel/Fax 01223 440834 (UK) | | | | http://homepages.enterprise.net/bradley/bradhome.html | -------------------------------------------------------- ----- 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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Open Molecule foundation Launch - Draft Agenda
by Rzepa, Henry 13 Sep '96

13 Sep '96

The launch of the Open Molecule Foundation will take place in the City of London on Thursday 19th September 1996, and is to be held at Sun Microsystem's London office, 25 Ropemaker Street Moorgate, London. The day will commence at 9.00 am. Due to the large demand for places at the launch, a further launch event is to be held at the same venue on the 21st October 1996. For registration details, and further information about the OMF, see http://www.ch.ic.c.uk/omf/ To quote from the mission statement; "The Open Molecule Foundation aims to provide a focus for the bio- and chemo- informatics community. Through the use of Java, the foundation intends to provide reusable, pre-competitive applets and Java packages to be freely available over the Internet for the bio- and chemo- informatics communities. " AGENDA > > 9-9.30 Registration and Coffee > > 9.30 Welcome David >Parry-Smith Pfizer > > 9.40 Demo of CINEMA- a Multiple Sequence Alignment Editor > >Terri Attwood - UCL > Future Direction Andrew >Payne - Cyberdynamics > > 10.20 Coffee Break > > 10.50 Spectral Browsers and Peter Murray-Rust >- VSMS > Java Compound Card Richard Kinder - >SunSoft > > 11.30 Electronic Publishing Henry Rzepa > >Imperial Coll. > 11.40 Java, Joe, NEO and Paul Bellchambers > the OMF SunSoft > > 11.55 Q & A Session Adam Precious/MDIS > Introduction to OMF Moni Pangali/Sun Microsystems > - Membership > - Projects > - Future events > > 12.15 LUNCH > > 13.30 Optional workshops - opportunity to gain hands-on > experience of subjects covered during morning sessions. > > STREAM A STREAM B > > 13.30 - 14.30 > BIOINFORMATICS CHEMOINFORMATICS > Workshop Leaders Workshop Leadears > Terri Attwood Peter Murray Rust > David Parry-Smith Henry Rzepa > Andrew Payne Richard Kinder > 14.30 - 15.30 > > BIOINFORMATICS CHEMOINFORMATICS > > REPEAT SESSIONS Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ (Eudora Pro 3.0) ----- 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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New, low-priced package of databases and programs for North American academic institutions
by David Hughes 10 Sep '96

10 Sep '96

(Please feel free to re-post this message to any list you feel would be interested. Please copy davidh(a)mdli.com with any such cross postings, so that I can be sure to update those lists later, as this information evolves.) (This message is being posted to: acsmedi, chemweb, chemind-l, chminf-l, isisforum-l, mol-diversity, sts-l) Announcing New MDL Academic Package for North American Academic Institutions We will issue a press release concerning this package; I wanted to give the members of these lists an early notice. MDL is offering (available immediately) a new bundle of databases and programs intended to help researchers at academic institutions in their search for important chemical information and in their maintenance of their own research results. The bundle consists of databases and programs that are in wide use throughout the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, and that should be uniquely helpful in academic research. These products also will give students an important early look at software they are likely to encounter when then enter the workforce. The databases in the package include two 3D molecule databases (a comprehensive list of compounds from over 200 chemical suppliers and a database of 78,000 drug candidates, complete with biological activity information), three reaction databases (containing 600,000 reactions covering novel syntheses and preparative methods in organic chemistry from 1946 onwards) and Metabolite, a database of metabolic transformation of xenobiotic compounds (as well as a registry system for storing your own metabolic transformation information.) The programs in the package include ISIS (a client-server package that is used for structure, reaction and data storage, searching, retrieval and viewing), Chemscape (a package you can use to search and view 2D/3D molecule and reaction databases within the WWW environment), ISIS for Excel, and Project Library (a program designed to manage combinatorial "libraries"). Institutions that license the MDL Academic Package can distribute copies of the client software to their students and faculty members, and these individuals can then use that client software to access the databases provided (as well as create and access their own databases). This package is initially available in North America only for $20,000 per year. Details about the MDL Academic Package can be found at: http://www.mdli.com/academic/academic.html A FAQ page is provided at http://www.mdli.com/academic/aca_faq.html. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at davidh(a)mdli.com. -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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**PRESS RELEASE**
by Patrick van der Valk 09 Sep '96

09 Sep '96

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Patrick M. van der Valk Tel: +351-1-456.42.98 Fax: +351-1-458.07.91 consult(a)betacyte.pt CHEMCONNECT AND BETACYTE STRENGTHEN THEIR STRATEGIC INTERNET PARTNERSHIP September 9, 1996 - Parede, Portugal Atlanta, USA BETACYTE, a website and online marketing consultancy, and CHEMCONNECT, the leading Chemical Suppliers Directory and Chemicals Exchange on the Internet, have announced a further strengthening of their strategic Internet partnership. ChemConnect's site, which gets over 115,000 information requests per month, has recently started a new banner advertising program. "With the growing demand for our normal services, we needed to find a partner that could run and coordinate this program" says John Beasley of ChemConnect. "BetaCyte was an easy choice since we have been working closely them in the past year, and we are very pleased with their work". BetaCyte is also pleased with the strengthening of the partnership. "This is a good example on how the Internet makes transatlantic partnerships possible. Email, FTP, and technologies like CU-SeeMe, provide enough communication speed to allow companies to work closely together even when they are five thousand miles apart." according to Patrick van der Valk, of the in Portugal based BetaCyte. The partnership, which is believed to be the first of its kind, will start on 9 September 1996. For more information, please contact: Patrick M. van der Valk John Beasley Senior Consultant President consult(a)betacyte.pt beas(a)chemconnect.com http://www.betacyte.com http://www.chemconnect.com Regards, Patrick M. van der Valk Senior Consultant ========================================================= Profitable WebSites ** BetaCyte ** Online Marketing ========================================================= Chemistry Journals: http://www.betacyte.com/journals.html Random ChemLink: http://www.betacyte.com/random.html Virtual Office: http://www.betacyte.com/welcome.html ========================================================= ----- 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: Chime script - [and other Chime news!]
by Tim Maffett 04 Sep '96

04 Sep '96

At 12:48 PM 9/4/96 +0100, Abby Parrill wrote: > >Chemwebbers- > > I've read about and seen what some people are doing with >Chimescripting, and would like to do some myself. Is there a site with >information on scripting commands (or enough examples that they become >obvious)? I've checked out MDL's site and it doesn't seem to be there. > >Thanks- > There are a couple of places that might have what you are looking for: http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/example/spttutor/tutorial.html The above URL is a entry point for a tutorial on Chime scripting and Rasmol scripting developed by Mitch Miller from MDL. It is a very nice tutorial, but it does require Netscape 3.0 because it takes advantage of a new feature that allows the scripts to be embedded within the HTML page and not have to reside as separate files on the server. A very nice HTML/hot linked version of the Rasmol 2.6 manual can be found at: http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/distrib/rasman.htm This page was developed by Eric Martz, et al, and is basically a complete version of the manual Rasmol manual, with all of the commands through Rasmol 2.6beta2 added, in hypertext form. Eric Martz is the moderator of the Rasmol mailing list, and also has an excellent web site with information of Rasmol scripting and tutorial writing, etc. : http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/ One other general reference is the "Cool Examples" page at mdl's web site, which list some of the neat pages people have been developing with Chime. (I am sure you have probably seen this, but some readers may not have.) http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/sampidx.html Some general Chime news: As many of you may have read in other mailing lists, there have been a couple of exciting announcements in the past week or so: 1) MDL has announced that Chime will have a FREE license for ALL USERS, including personal home use, academic, AND corporate users. Read more about this at: http://www.mdli.com/news960819.html 2) Glaxo Wellcome and MDL have announced a collaboration on further development of both Rasmol and Chemscape Chime. Read more about this at: http://www.mdli.com/news960827.html Update on Chime 1.0's status: Although the final release of Chime is getting closer, we may be releasing one last beta before the final. The new version of Chime has some exciting new features, including extensions to the Rasmol scripting engine to include several much sought after commands by long time Rasmol scripters such as Eric Martz. Chime will also include support for LiveConnect from Netscape, which will allow Chime authors to include such things as a "interactive command line mode" for Chime within their web pages, and many other neat things such as GIF images with image maps to URLs to invoke Chime scripts. The SGI version of Chime is also shaping up quite nicely, and is currently in 'limited alpha' testing this week by SGI users around the world. We hope to release a beta of the SGI Chime by early next week, if not sooner. -tim Tim Maffett Principal Architect - Internet Technologies MDL Information Systems, Inc. ----- 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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Chime script
by Abby Parrill 04 Sep '96

04 Sep '96

Chemwebbers- I've read about and seen what some people are doing with Chimescripting, and would like to do some myself. Is there a site with information on scripting commands (or enough examples that they become obvious)? I've checked out MDL's site and it doesn't seem to be there. Thanks- __________________________________________________________ Abby Parrill Chemistry Department Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1322 parrill(a)argus.cem.msu.edu __________________________________________________________ ----- 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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