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MDL INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC. INSTALLS LITLINK/PRO SERVER ON CHEM WEB.COM
by Dori Luzbetak 23 Mar '99

23 Mar '99

News Release CONTACTS: Céline Fleur MDL Information Systems, Inc. (510) 895-1313 ext. 1285 cfleur(a)mdli.com http://www.mdli.com European mirror site: http://www.mdli.co.uk SPRING ACS: MDL INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC. INSTALLS LITLINK/PRO SERVER ON CHEMWEB.COM --One-Click Access to Scientific Journals Offered to Internet Chemical Community-- SAN LEANDRO, California--March 22, 1999--MDL Information Systems, Inc., the recognized leader in discovery informatics for the life science and chemical industries, today announced the use of LitLink/Pro Server on ChemWeb.com, the online club from Elsevier Science for the Internet chemical community. ChemWeb, Inc. will enhance scientific applications on ChemWeb.com by using LitLink/Pro Server to provide scientists with one-click access to original literature, journal articles, patents and abstracts. During Spring ACS '99, MDL will demonstrate LitLink/Pro Server, and show how it integrates with other MDL products to support the discovery workflow, from March 22-24, at the Anaheim Convention Center, Booth 819. ChemWeb, Inc. will also demonstrate LitLink/Pro Server at ACS in Booth 1349. LitLink/Pro Server provides tools for linking citations in any Web or MS Windows application to any literature site, enabling customers to modify those applications to access most Internet or intranet sites storing primary literature. Articles are available electronically from Elsevier Science, (ScienceDirect or ScienceDirect OnSite), ChemWeb.com (for Beilstein Abstracts), the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Swets & Zeitlinger B.V. (SwetsNet.com) and other publishers as they become available. LitLink/Pro Server generates and posts the citation in the appropriate query format for a given literature site. The requested document is then delivered to the scientist's desktop in a new Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer window. For those articles not available electronically, LitLink/Pro Server generates an email request for document delivery. "LitLink unlocks the potential of electronic literature," said MDL's Steve Young, group manager, MDL/Elsevier Projects. "For the highly competitive chemical and pharmaceutical industries, fast access to preparative and proprietary information often means the difference between success and failure. LitLink will help ensure success by providing immediate access to scientific information found in the primary literature. The key advantage of LitLink/Pro Server is that it enables our customers like ChemWeb, Inc. to LitLink-enable any of their applications and create links to additional publishers and other specialized services." Bill Town, ChemWeb, Inc.'s Director of Operations, states, "The use of LitLink/Pro technology from our sister company, MDL Information Systems, Inc., is a major step forward toward meeting chemists' needs for a one-stop resource of chemical information. We are delighted to provide the users of ChemWeb.com with LitLink access to ScienceDirect, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and SwetsNet.com, plus additional publishers through the ChemWeb.com site. Chemists need fast access to the primary literature regardless of where articles reside." About ChemWeb, Inc. ChemWeb.com was developed as a joint venture between MDL Information Systems, Inc. and the Current Science Group. ChemWeb, Inc. produces the online "club" for the world's chemistry researchers, ChemWeb.com, which delivers complete information resources for chemical research and communication via the World Wide Web. It is the first commercial Web service to combine electronic publishing, databases, journals, and scientific forums, along with informatics technologies for structure-based searching, high-speed text retrieval, and manipulation of "live" molecular structures. ChemWeb, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier Science. About MDL MDL Information Systems, Inc. is the recognized leader in discovery informatics for the life science and chemical industries. MDL's software, content, and services provide the enterprise framework for identifying successful new products. A wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier Science, MDL has offices worldwide with headquarters in San Leandro, California. ### MDL is a registered trademark and LitLink is a trademark of MDL Information Systems, Inc. ChemWeb.com, ScienceDirect, and ScienceDirect OnSite are trademarks of Elsevier Science. Microsoft is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. All other product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Dori Luzbetak Web Communications Manager Marketing Communications MDL Information Systems, Inc. 14600 Catalina Street San Leandro, CA 94577 (510) 895-1313 x1652 (510) 614-3608 - FAX dori(a)mdli.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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MDL UNITES INDUSTRY-LEADING SOFTWARE WITH WORLD'S LARGEST ORGANIC CHEMISTRY DATABASE
by Dori Luzbetak 23 Mar '99

23 Mar '99

News Release CONTACT: Corbin Collins MDL Information Systems, Inc. (510) 895-1313, ext. 1371 corbin(a)mdli.com http://www.mdli.com European mirror site: http://www.mdli.co.uk SPRING ACS: MDL UNITES INDUSTRY-LEADING SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE WITH WORLD'S LARGEST ORGANIC CHEMISTRY DATABASE --The ISIS Beilstein Interface Provides Familiar ISIS Access to Beilstein's Structure, Reaction, and Data Repository-- SAN LEANDRO, California--March 22, 1999--MDL Information Systems, Inc. now offers scientists who appreciate the flexible, intuitive capabilities of the industry-leading Integrated Scientific Information System (ISIS) the same ISIS access to the Beilstein Database. The ISIS Beilstein Interface enables researchers to use most ISIS search options--as well as Beilstein-specific capabilities--to query and retrieve chemical structures and data from the world's most comprehensive source in organic chemistry. Anyone familiar with ISIS for searching MDL or proprietary databases can use the application without significant retraining. For companies with existing ISIS/Host installations, the ISIS Beilstein Interface is easy to install and administer. The ISIS system communicates with the database via a new gateway based on the protocols of CrossFire 4.0, Beilstein's native search engine. MDL will demonstrate the ISIS Beilstein Interface at the meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 22-24, booth 819, Anaheim Convention Center. "I'm very pleased with the introduction of this product," said Dr. Alexander Lawson, director of research and development, Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH (BIS). "The ISIS Beilstein Interface significantly extends the capabilities of one of the world's most comprehensive chemistry databases, enhancing the value of ISIS and Beilstein alike." "The ISIS Beilstein Interface is an example of the kind the synergy we expect to achieve with BIS and other subsidiaries of our parent company, Elsevier Science," said Patricia Rougeau, president and chief executive officer of MDL. "With the ISIS Beilstein Interface, many MDL customers who appreciate ISIS' power, flexibility, and ease-of-use can take full advantage of the enormous Beilstein resource." Options for Remote Access The ISIS Beilstein Interface supports most ISIS queries-molecule searches, reaction searches, text and property searches, combined substructure and data searches-and several Beilstein-specific capabilities. Users can conduct searches across a corporate client/server network or via the Internet. Corporate access on an in-house system requires that organizations store all server components of the ISIS Beilstein Interface on a corporate server or servers (the CrossFire search engine and Beilstein database can be installed on one server, the ISIS Beilstein Gateway on another). For Internet access, companies simply install the ISIS Beilstein Gateway on a corporate server and subscribe to CrossFire Direct Service, which operates with a backup system to ensure reliability and which saves a company the work of installing and maintaining CrossFire and the Beilstein Database. About the Beilstein Database Beilstein's chronological index dates from 1771, and contains over 7.5 million compounds, 10 million reactions, and 30 million associated physical, chemical, and biological property records that can be accessed through 300 data fields, 250 keyword fields, and 80 numeric physical property fields. Beilstein contains three primary data types. The substance domain stores structural information, including chemical, physical, and biological properties, preparative methods, chemical behavior,and literature references. The reaction domain offers more details on the preparation of substances and reaction attributes such as reaction centers, bond fates, and atom-atom mapping. The citation domain contains citations, abstracts, and titles related to entries in the substance and reaction domains. About ISIS The ISIS family of products provides an information management architecture that supports the registration, management, retrieval, display, and analysis of all types of scientific information. ISIS/Host is the foundation server system. ISIS/Draw is a desktop chemical drawing program used to create chemical presentation graphics or compose database queries. ISIS/Base is a desktop database management system that provides the capability to store, search, and display chemical structures and associated data with customizable forms. About the Companies MDL Information Systems, Inc. is the recognized leader in discovery informatics for the life science and chemical industries. MDL software, content, and services provide the enterprise framework for identifying successful new products. A wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier Science, MDL has offices worldwide with headquarters in San Leandro, California. Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH, based in Frankfurt, Germany, and Beilstein Information Systems Inc., with offices in San Leandro, California, are the developers of the CrossFire System, the world's leading authority on organic chemical information, and AutoNom, a program for automatically generating IUPAC names from graphic structures. BIS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier Science. ### MDL is a registered trademark and ISIS is a trademark of MDL Information Systems, Inc. AutoNom, CrossFire, and CrossFire Direct are trademarks of Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH. Beilstein Data by Beilstein Institut fuer Literatur der Organischen Chemie licensed to Beilstein Chemiedaten & Software GmbH and Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH. Microsoft is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. All other product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Dori Luzbetak Web Communications Manager Marketing Communications MDL Information Systems, Inc. 14600 Catalina Street San Leandro, CA 94577 (510) 895-1313 x1652 (510) 614-3608 - FAX dori(a)mdli.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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Beilstein Announces new Managing Director
by Yvonne Schickel 23 Mar '99

23 Mar '99

PRESS RELEASE (22nd March, 1999) Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH Yvonne Schickel (phone: +49-69-5050 4240; e-mail: yschickel(a)beilstein.com) For Immediate Release Beilstein Informationssysteme Announces new Managing Director Frankfurt, Germany --- Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH (BIS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier Science, today announced the appointment of Eduard Cohen to the post of Managing Director effective April 1st. Having worked for several years in the pharmaceutical industry and then later within the Reed Elsevier Group at various senior management positions, Eduard Cohen brings a wealth of experience and knowledge of the industry to Beilstein. I am delighted to be able to contribute to the continued success of Beilstein, provide a bridge to Elsevier Science and work within the MDL organisation. Our goal is to further enable scientists with the technology required to assist in the research process. The first joint projects between the three groups are already emerging, and these projects and others will accelerate our customers research processes and contribute strongly to their decision making", says Cohen. As arranged after the acquisition by Elsevier Science in January 1998, BIS will continue to be operated by MDL Information Systems, Inc. (MDL) which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier Science. Esther Allen, the previous Managing Director who lead the company during the transition period, has ensured a smooth hand-over to Eduard Cohen. 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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MDL INTRODUCES CHESHIRE FOR ISIS
by Dori Luzbetak 18 Mar '99

18 Mar '99

CONTACT: Corbin Collins MDL Information Systems, Inc. (510) 895-1313, ext. 1371 corbin(a)mdli.com http://www.mdli.com European mirror site: http://www.mdli.co.uk MDL INTRODUCES CHESHIRE FOR ISIS, A CHEMICAL INTERPRETATION ENVIRONMENT FOR INDUSTRY-LEADING ISIS --Companies Can Create Cheminformatics Business Rules, Automate the Analysis and Manipulation of Large Volumes of Chemical Information-- SAN LEANDRO, California--March 17, 1999--MDL Information Systems, Inc. today introduced Cheshire, a sophisticated chemical representation component that tightly integrates a powerful chemical scripting language into the industry-standard ISIS (Integrated Scientific Information System) framework. Cheshire provides a software development environment for building abstract and complex business rules that automate the analysis and interpretation of chemical structures and that calculate chemical information from chemical structures. The system is designed for chemical registration, data mining, property prediction, and sophisticated chemical representation controls within custom cheminformatics applications. Cheshire runs on both client and server platforms within the ISIS family of products, and is portable to future MDL architectures. MDL will demonstrate Cheshire at the meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 22-24, booth 819, Anaheim Convention Center. Cheshire includes Cheshire Studio, an interactive prototyping environment that developers can use to build, edit, and run scripts executed by the Cheshire runtime environment, the workhorse of the Cheshire system. The Cheshire runtime environment is exposed to users and developers directly through several programs in the ISIS family of products--ISIS/Base, ISIS/Object Library, ISIS for Microsoft Excel, ISIS/Host Application Program Interface (API), ISIS Procedural Language (PL), and Chemscape. This accessibility allows Cheshire to plug-and-play with existing discovery systems and support the breadth of scientific applications used within the pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotech industries. Cheshire enables high-level functions that can operate on entire collections of atoms and bonds, not just individual atoms and bonds. For the developer, this high-level abstraction makes the scripting language intuitive and easy to program. For the end user, the abstraction enables high-level operations such as exploring molecular fingerprints to aid in structure-activity relationship studies. Cheshire's scripting language is modeled on Javascript, allowing the use of familiar programming constructs such as objects, methods, and properties. Cheshire comes standard with a library of sample scripts, including a part of the chemical representation conversion rules MDL uses when building databases such as the Available Chemicals Directory. The system also comes with valuable example utilities, including an ISIS/Base add-in that provides scientists working in ISIS/Base off-the-shelf access to Cheshire capabilities. Users can extend ISIS/Base immediately with a sophisticated chemical interpretation component to calculate physicochemical data from structures, which helps scientists analyze chemical structures that would otherwise require tedious manual inspection. "In our view, Cheshire is based on a set of abstract concepts including 'collections' and 'mappings' within an object-oriented framework," said Dr Upali Bandara, business analyst, ZDW Scientific Information, BASF Aktiengesellschaft. "The combination of these concepts with the rich dictionary of basic operations allows Cheshire to cover all the business rules we need in the process of structure registration. The Cheshire Studio will help us to do the programming and testing in a remarkably efficient way." "Cheshire fits into multiple discovery environments where different scientists and programmers can use it to automate tasks related to in-depth chemical structure processing in numerous ways," said Rudy Potenzone, senior vice president of product development at MDL. "The system's robust chemical intelligence and its sophisticated methods for analyzing and interpreting chemistry not only enhance core ISIS products but interoperate easily in a variety of ways with other MDL systems. We designed Cheshire to help research organizations build a comprehensive and integrated discovery informatics framework." The ISIS Family and Complementary Systems For the past seven years, ISIS solutions have provided an information management architecture that supports the registration, retrieval, display, and analysis of all types of scientific information. Pharmaceutical, biotech, agrochemical, and chemical industries worldwide use ISIS applications, which support compound-discovery research and development. Cheshire works with * ISIS/Draw, a chemically intelligent drawing program * ISIS/Base, a forms-based desktop database management system and/or client for querying and accessing corporate data sources through ISIS/Host * ISIS/Object Library, an OLE interface to ISIS on the client * ISIS/Host API, a programmable interface to the ISIS/Host integration engine on the server * ISIS/PL, a programming language within ISIS on the client and the server * ISIS for Microsoft Excel, a data analysis tool that combines the spreadsheet environment of Excel with the chemical structure handling capabilities of ISIS * Chemscape, a Web-based system that provides complete ISIS structure and data searching capabilities from within Web browsers Cheshire also integrates with other MDL products, including * Reagent Selector, MDL's new system for selecting and obtaining reagents * Central Library, MDL's solution for combinatorial chemistry * The Spotfire product suite, systems for the interactive visualization of large data sets and chemical structures About MDL MDL Information Systems, Inc. is the recognized leader in discovery informatics for the life science and chemical industries. MDL software, content, and services provide the enterprise framework for identifying successful new products. A wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier Science, MDL has offices worldwide with headquarters in San Leandro, California. ### Chemscape and MDL are registered trademarks and Available Chemicals Directory, Central Library, Cheshire, ISIS, ISIS/Object Library, and Reagent Selector are trademarks of MDL Information Systems, Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. Spotfire is a registered trademark of Spotfire, Inc. All other product names may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. Dori Luzbetak Web Communications Manager Marketing Communications MDL Information Systems, Inc. 14600 Catalina Street San Leandro, CA 94577 (510) 895-1313 x1652 (510) 614-3608 - FAX dori(a)mdli.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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MDL UNVEILS A "SMART" SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RESEARCH INVENTORIES
by Dori Luzbetak 18 Mar '99

18 Mar '99

CONTACTS: Céline Fleur MDL Information Systems, Inc. (510) 895-1313 ext. 1285 cfleur(a)mdli.com http://www.mdli.com European mirror site: http://www.mdli.co.uk MDL UNVEILS A "SMART" SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RESEARCH INVENTORIES --Sample Management and Reagent Tracking (SMART) Provides Web-Based Interface for Enterprise-Wide Management of Material Inventories-- SAN LEANDRO, California--March 11, 1999--MDL Information Systems, Inc., the recognized leader in discovery informatics for the life science and chemical industries, today introduced its Sample Management and Reagent Tracking (SMART) system, a modular software application designed for enterprise-wide management of material inventories in high-throughput discovery environments. During Spring ACS '99, MDL will demonstrate SMART, and show how it integrates with other MDL products to support the discovery workflow, from March 22-24, at the Anaheim Convention Center, Booth 819 in Anaheim, California. SMART provides a core set of modules that address and integrate the workflow of managing inventory throughout its life cycle from pre-acquisition through container disposal. The Web-based interface simplifies access to a material's location, availability, restrictions, costs, hazards, and MSDS safety data. It includes business functions such as shopping for commercial reagents, ordering and tracking in-house reagents, bar coding samples at the receiving dock, and searching by chemical structure, name, or manufacturer. "The entire discovery process has changed in both volume and scope, and cost-efficient and timely access to research materials is crucial" reports Phil McHale, MDL vice president of product marketing. "SMART integrates scientific and business processes with physical inventory to meet the requirements of modern discovery, replacing methods that otherwise are time-consuming and costly. Inventories have become more diverse, encompassing not only increasing quantities of chemicals, but hazard information, safety protocols, and decidedly 'non-chemical' materials, such as cabinets and biological assay kits." McHale continues, "Everyone in the organization who needs inventory information, from workers on the receiving dock and business planners to scientists in the lab, will have access to the information in one flexible system-SMART." SMART's Core Features Increase Efficiency and Reduce Costs SMART provides the ability to * Locate in-house samples and commercial materials by searching any combination of data, including structures. * Order materials from vendors and from in-house stockrooms. * Register samples received from vendors and track proprietary compounds and data. * Maintain a barcode labeling system. * Update inventory contents in real time. * Integrate with existing MDL discovery informatics systems. * Access MSDS information stored in MDL's Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) database. * Access commercial availability information stored in MDL's Available Chemicals Directory (ACD). * View and print standard reports. * Easily reconcile actual inventories against the database. * Manage system administrative details. SMART Architecture SMART Product Marketing Manager Charles Sullivan explains, "Flexible and adaptable information systems are crucial to our customers. We've created a layered and modular inventory system that encompasses the complexity of today's high-throughput discovery processes by integrating key steps in the workflow-such as materials ordering, purchasing, intelligent chemical inquiry, and locating processes-with an easy-to-use interface. The architecture, with its core functionality and add-on modules easily integrates with a company's existing infrastructure." Sullivan continues, "To provide these capabilities, we built SMART using MDL's ISIS and Chemscape technologies." The SMART architecture is flexible and adaptable because it divides the application into three layers: 1. The application layer provides core functionality, and encapsulates a company's business rules, query logic, processing rules, and integration information. 2. The user interface occupies a separate layer. The interface is detached from the server-side functionality, so modifying the interface is straightforward. MDL's use of Web technology ensures cross-platform compatibility on the client side. 3. Both proprietary and non-proprietary inventory data are housed in the database layer. For example, non-proprietary supplier data in the Chemical Products Information (CPI) File--the relational version of ACD--is housed in the database layer. Optional Modules The SMART architecture permits the easy addition of optional modules to enhance the core functionality. The purchasing module, for example, enables organizations to link SMART directly to purchasing systems such as those in SAP R2 or R3, and the electronic balance interface reads weights directly from balances into SMART. System Requirements MDL built SMART on industry-standard tools Java Script and Oracle PL/SQL, and MDL's Chemscape and ISIS technologies. SMART is designed to stand-alone or to seamlessly integrate with other MDL tools, including Reagent Selector, which provides integrated tools for selecting reagents. A key SMART component is ISIS/Draw, a chemically-intelligent drawing package used to create chemical graphics and structural inquiries for searching ISIS databases. SMART runs with Netscape Navigator 4.0.5 or higher, Internet Explorer 4.0, and requires Oracle, ISIS/Host, Chemscape, and Netscape Enterprise Server. The next version of SMART, scheduled for mid-1999 release, will run on Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). About MDL MDL Information Systems, Inc. is the recognized leader in discovery informatics for the life science and chemical industries. MDL's software, content, and services provide the enterprise framework for identifying successful new products. A wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier Science, MDL has offices worldwide with headquarters in San Leandro, California. ### MDL is a registered trademark and Available Chemicals Directory, Chemscape, ISIS, and Reagent Selector are trademarks of MDL Information Systems, Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. Oracle is a registered trademark of the Oracle Corporation. All other product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Dori Luzbetak Web Communications Manager Marketing Communications MDL Information Systems, Inc. 14600 Catalina Street San Leandro, CA 94577 (510) 895-1313 x1652 (510) 614-3608 - FAX dori(a)mdli.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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Source for Scientific Internet Resources
by Rzepa, Henry 17 Mar '99

17 Mar '99

We are all familiar with eg ChemDex types of services, which deal specifically with chemical Internet resources. http://bubl.ac.uk/link/sci.html is a general one, which however has some excellent chemical pointers, and appears very up to date and relevant. Well worth taking a look at. 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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Chemint99.
by Rzepa, Henry 17 Mar '99

17 Mar '99

This note is to announce that the web Abstract Submission form is now operational for the Chemistry and the Internet (ChemInt'99) meeting being held in at Georgetown University in Washington DC on September 25-27, 1999. http://www.ijc.com/ci1/chemint98.form.html The program of invited speakers and panel members of the 3 panel sessions is available on the meeting web site - http://www.chemint.org/ Please note that slide displays from last years meeting are also available for inspection on this site. You are urged to look at the program and to consider submitting a poster paper to the meeting. A number of poster papers will be selected for oral presentation at the meeting. The main lecturers for the meeting will be: Alan Arnold, University College (UNSW) Steven Bachrach, Northern Illinois University Robert Bovenschulte, ACS Stephen Boyer, IBM Karl Harrison, Oxford University Clemens Jochum, Deutsche Bank Gary Mallard, NIST Tom Pierce, Rohm & Haas Jerome Reichman, Vanderbilt Achim Zielesny, Bayer AG Steven S. Zumdahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The (current) corporate sponsors for the meeting are: ChemWeb and the Internet Journal of Chemistry Technical Sponsors are: ACS CINF Division ACS COMP Division The Chemical Structure Association (CSA) Georgetown University - Department of Chemistry International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (pending) Japan Association for International Chemical Information (JAICI) Special Libraries Association (SLA) Chemistry Division Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 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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Molecular Models
by engel＠iname.com 17 Mar '99

17 Mar '99

Molecular Models [Chemscape Chime] http://www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/chem/molecule/molecule.html Created and maintained by Dr. Dave Woodcock of the Chemistry Department at Okanagan University College in British Columbia, Canada, this site features models of over 1,100 molecules in .pdb, or Chemscape Chime, format (link to free download provided). Users may search the molecular database using an internal search engine or browse by category or alphabetically. Index page entries include the molecule's name, formula, molar mass, and comments. The site also features more detailed models of selected molecular fragments. [MD] "From the Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/" ------------------------------------------------------ Get free personalized email at http://four11.iname.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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Warr pages updated
by Dr. Wendy A. Warr 16 Mar '99

16 Mar '99

Colleagues, Please excuse duplicate postings. We have done a significant amount of updating at http://www.warr.com. If you have not visited recently, do have a look. In addition you might like to have a virtual breakfast with me at 8am PST (4 pm GMT) on March 21, 22, 23 or 24. It's free! Enjoy it over afternoon tea instead of breakfast if you're in the UK. Sunday's show is an introduction to the National ACS meeting. Monday's show concerns molecular modeling. Tuesday's is about combinatorial chemistry in materials science/catalysis and Wednesday's is a surprise package. Further details are at the registration site http://chemweb.vei.co.uk (pick Event 15). Do please join in - it's much more interesting when we get a big [virtual] audience. 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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Urgent: Distillation(BTEX/BTX) Problem
by tewoei 11 Mar '99

11 Mar '99

Hello all, I am a chemical engineering student in my final year at the University of Oklahoma working on the final project. In this project, I am required to look for new industrial technology/technologies to separate Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, p-xylene, and cumene from each other. I am concentrating on the process to separate Benzene, and Toluene, from Ethylbenzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, p-xylene, and cumene. (BTEX) or BTX. The common technology used in separating Benzene, and Toluene, from Ethylbenzene,m o-xylene, m-xylene, p-xylene, and cumene is distillation column with the requirement of intensive energy. I need to look for new technology/technologies in:- a. membrane b. zeolites c. pressure swing adsorption I have been doing a lot of literature reviews. I can only find materials on distillation and nothing new for BTEX. I would appreciate it if someone could point me the right direction. Please reply if you have any material or people of reference that would be of assistance. Thank you. PS. I am attaching a gif file for further illustrations. Te W. Poon twpoon(a)ou.edu

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