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Molecule of the Month - January
by Paul May 31 Dec '00

31 Dec '00

Hi, The first MOTM for the year 2001 is also the first one to be written by a school. It's Lead Tetra-ethyl, (the petrol additive) and has been written by Simon Cotton of Uppingham School in Rutland. All 4 versions (HTML-only, Chime, Chemsymphony & VRML) are availavle. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm 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> "If at first you don't succeed, call it Version 1.0" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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IR or NIR
by chen zhongping 23 Dec '00

23 Dec '00

Dear list members, I want to monitor the starch hydrolysis products using InfraRed or Near InfraRed? But I don't know how. Can you give some advice or tell me where can i find information about that on the net? Your reply will be highly appreciated! Thank you very much in advance! Sincerely, chen zhongping zpchen(a)21cn.com ************************************************ Chen Zhong-ping E-mail: zpchen(a)21cn.com ICQ:57632589 Tel:86-21-64241083(dorm) BP:95808-61187 86-21-64253854(lab) Fax:86-21-64253702 National Engineering Research Center For Biotechnology East China University of Science and Technology Meilong Road,Shanghai,200237, P.R.China ************************************************ "Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase." 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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10th Anniversary of the Web
by Rzepa, Henry 02 Dec '00

02 Dec '00

December 3rd, 1990 seems to be the date acknowledged as the "birth" of the Web. Falling on this Sunday, it seems a date worth noting! The chemical web we think started around December 1992, so it is 8 years old. -- Henry Rzepa. Imperial College, Chemistry Dept. +44 020 7594 5774 (Office) +44 020 7594 5804 (Fax) 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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School of Informatics at Indiana University
by Wiggins, Gary D. 01 Dec '00

01 Dec '00

Unfortunately, the official job ad which I just posted included the main IU URL instead of the School of Informatics home page. Here is the School of Informatics page: http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/ For further information about the chemical informatics and bioinformatics programs, see: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/informatics/ci_iu.html Gary D. Wiggins Director, Programs in Bioinformatics and Chemical Informatics, School of Informatics Head, 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 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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Job: Informatics at Indiana University
by Wiggins, Gary D. 01 Dec '00

01 Dec '00

Indiana University's School of Informatics on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses invites applications for tenure-track positions, primarily at the assistant professor rank. Senior rank will be considered for applicants with recognized national and international stature. Rank will be determined on the basis of qualifications and experience. This is the first new school at Indiana University in 28 years, and one of the very first new schools in the country dedicated exclusively to informatics, understood as the application of information technology to problems in various disciplines. At both Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), the school offers a B.S. in Informatics and M.S. degrees in bio- and chemical informatics. On the Bloomington campus the school also offers an M.S. degree in Human-Computer Interaction. On the IUPUI campus, the school offers both a B.S. and an M.S. in New Media and an M.S. in Health informatics. More information about the new school may be found at http://www.informatics.indiana.edu. This is an excellent opportunity for faculty interested in building new academic programs in a dynamic environment. Applicants should be able to teach a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in informatics, which could include mathematical foundations of information, organizational informatics, social informatics, distributed information and knowledge systems, human-computer interaction, and new media. Applicants with a background in computer and/or information science are encouraged to apply as well as those who have knowledge of best practices in the application of information technology to a particular discipline such as biology, chemistry, health sciences, journalism, telecommunications or fine arts. (This list is not exclusive.) Joint appointments with campus units in the applicants' specialties are possible. Applicants at the assistant professor level should have a promising agenda of scholarly research or creative activity and demonstrated commitment to teaching. Senior applicants should have evidence of outstanding research and excellent teaching. Preference will be given to those with a completed Ph.D. or the equivalent or appropriate terminal degree. Applicants should send a letter of application outlining their qualifications, a curriculum vitae, and a list of three references (for senior applicants, a list of six references). A sample of written work and evidence of quality teaching are welcome additions. IU-Bloomington Positions Send all materials for Bloomington positions to: Associate Dean Christine Ogan School of Informatics 339 Sycamore Hall 1023 E. Third St. Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) Positions Send all IUPUI materials to: Associate Dean Douglas Perry School of Informatics 117 Mary Cable Building 525 N. Blackford St. IUPUI Indianapolis, IN 76202 The search committee will start reviewing applications for all positions on Feb. 15, 2001, and will continue until the positions are filled. The School of Informatics is eager to consider applications from women and people of color. Indiana University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. 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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Distance learning
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

I am posting this for Dr. Nikodem Miranowicz. Wendy Dear list readers, Lately, in the Laboratory of Chemical Education at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland), we have started a little educational project on distance learning. It is first our step into teaching students how to draw structures and to model molecules we did by Internet. If You have a time, please take a look at our project at http://chem214.chemd.amu.edu.pl/intins/INTINS.html. Send me your comments. May be you'll find it somehow usefull for yourself. For 10 years I'm doing my university classes on the use of computers in chemistry and chemistry education (structure drawing, modelling, simulations, Internet sources, hipermedia authoring etc). We use textbooks and classical methods of programmed learning. Today I am forced by the fact that students starts to prefere to use Internet and not to come to the faculty late at the evening for exercises. I started our project with a simple and structurised set of animations showing how to draw a structure with ChemDraw or ISISDraw or prepare a model with Chem3D. Next step is to introduce interactive tools for controlling students attempts to properly draw a structure. We are doing this with ChemOffice ChemDraw plug-in. As for now students like it. Best regards dr Nikodem Miranowicz Laboratory Of Chemical Education Adam Mickiewicz University ul.Grunwaldzka 6 60-780 Poznan, Poland http://main.amu.edu.pl/~nmiran/ http://main.amu.edu.pl/~zdch/ -- 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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Molecule of the Month - December
by Paul May 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

Hi, December's Molecule of the Month is the notorious defoliant 2,4,5-T (Agent Orange). The site was written by Bristol student John Hardy as an entry for last year's ExemplarChem competition (http://www.chemsoc.org/exemplarchem/home.htm) run by the RSC. He actually one won of the prizes. It acts as a good example for this year's competition, which looks like having 70 academic departments taking part... The page is available in 3 versions, HTML-only, Chime and VRML. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm 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> "If at first you don't succeed, call it Version 1.0" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Cheminformatics vacancy
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 26 Nov '00

26 Nov '00

Apologies for duplicate postings. I have a colleague seeking a cheminformatics expert for a permanent position in Australia. The job involves the planning, development and implementation of an integrated matinformatics, cheminformatics and bioinformatics system (i.e., databases and analysis and modelling tools) customised to the companys requirements. If you would like further details, and already live in Australia, or are prepared to relocate, please contact me, wendy(a)warr.com, NOT the whole list! 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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Will journals have a place in the future ?
by Michael Engel 17 Nov '00

17 Nov '00

Will journals still exist in the future ? I recently noticed a change in the way of thinking. Does it matter if you publish in JACS or Inorg.Chem. or another title of ACS ? (I know it still matters, but...) In the approaching electronic/online/internet age, names (and reputations) are loosing its value. The name of different journals are only different URLs and as journals are sold en-bloc, who cares about the actual journal ? The brandname is or will become ACS (or RSC, Wiley, ScienceDirect, etc). Do we actually see a transformation into databases ? I see big chances ahead, if publications could then change into extractable publications, using XML, CML, etc. Our search possibilities would dramatically increase and make life much easier. That's not good for CAS, however, if they don't find a possibility to add value. Also printing (or downloading to electronic readers) could then be customized. I am really looking forward to such changes. We are approaching a new world, brave or not, we will see. Best regards Michael Engel 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: Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2001
by Rzepa, Henry 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

I wonder what, in general, is happening in the chemistry area? Are electronic theses in chemistry widely accepted? For those that are, are they "emasculated" chemically? By this I mean they appear in eg Acrobat form, with no easily extractable chemical components (coordinates, connection tables, spectra, etc). Are they indexed, and if so, what meta data is associated with them? Do e-dissertation projects provide good tools for authors, or are the authors expected to do it all? >ETD 2001, the Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and >Dissertations, will be held at the California Institute of Technology in >Pasadena, California, on March 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2001. > >ETD 2001 is a forum for academic administration officials, >information-technology professionals, and librarians interested in providing >easy access to theses and dissertations by making them available online. > >The conference will cover a broad range of topics: from the technology >necessary to make it happen to organizational and policy issues that arise >when a university institutes ETDs. A list of confirmed speakers and session >topics is available at http://library.caltech.edu/etd/Confirmed.htm > >A limited number of sessions are available for contributed papers and poster >presentations. Please, go to >http://library.caltech.edu/etd/CallforPapers.htm for details on the call for >papers. The deadline for submitting contributed papers and/or posters is >January 15th, 2001. Please send proposed title and abstract to >mailto:jhagen2@wvu.edu. > >For full details on conference schedule, program, and location, please go to >the conference web site at http://library.caltech.edu/etd/ > >Online registration will open in early December. -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0870) 132-3747 (eFax) 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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