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National Science Foundation funded Internet Guide to inter alia Chemistry
by Rzepa, Henry 05 Aug '97

05 Aug '97

The InterNIC has published what purports to be an academic guide to various Internet sites, including a chemistry section. The InterNIC is certainly a reputable organisation, in charge amongst other things, of all domain registrations! I use the word purports because I received the famous "congratulations, your site has been chosen" message, and I normally ask myself "by whom" when I receive these things. Apparently, "Compiled by Internet experts with specialized skills in library science, web design, and designing services for the research and academic community, the Guide delivers a focused, no-nonsense resource". I note it has probably not been compiled by chemists. Still, for what its worth, its on http://www.internic.net/aldea/attframes2.html and the chemistry bit is on http://ds.internic.net/aldea/chemud.html along with a questionaire about each site which readers can fill in. 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. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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CD
by David Bradley Science Writer 04 Aug '97

04 Aug '97

Thanks to everyone who sent me pointers and attachments regarding m request for a cyclodextrin. Got several now - probably enough! Dave B -------------------------------------------------------- | David Bradley Science Writer | | Bradley(a)enterprise.net | | Tel/Fax +44 1223 440834 (Intl) | | Tel/Fax 01223 440834 (UK) | | | | http://homepages.enterprise.net/bradley/elem1.html | -------------------------------------------------------- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Protein Chemistry Screensaver
by Kimberlyte, Inc 03 Aug '97

03 Aug '97

As a public service to the chemistry community, Kimberlyte Inc. has made its new protein chemistry screensaver freely available for download at its web site. The screensaver runs on Windows 3.1 and 95 and contains beautifully rendered x-ray structures of ras, cytochrome c peroxidase, ferritin, carboxypeptidase, and other macromolecules. The web address is: http://www.kimberlyte.com Thank you. chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: URLs with tildes blocked by firewall
by Lachlan Cranswick 02 Aug '97

02 Aug '97

After presenting an internet Workshop at last year's Denver X-ray conference I heard quite a few interesting stories from the audience - most of which seemed to mainly originate from US corporations(?). Company names deleted, these include: A company insisting that each exact URL you wanted to be specified in advance so they could set the permissions that you could receive these (and only these) URLs. The best one I heard was a company that had "hidden" content filters to check the content and make sure not of it was inappropriate. To check for pornographic material, they would do checks on the string "X-rated". However, their system would only use the first 4 characters - "X-ra". One of the company powder diffractionists got hauled over the coals for browsing pornographic material. It seems he did a web search for "X-rays" I also know of some companies that will not let their ordinary staff browse on the real World Wide Web. They have to request the site they are interested in browsing through - and these are then downloaded by the IT department onto local network hard-disks for off-line browsing. I'm sure there must be more stories like this out there? --- Quite a few useful sites have the ~ symbol in them - as they are individual homepages. Why not try Stefan Webers Crystallography and Quasicrystal homepage (with much good free DOS and Java software): http://www.nirim.go.jp/~weber/ Cheers, Lachlan. > I have a query for the Chemistry-Internet community at-large, but >particularly for industrial sites. Our corporate IT department recently >completed the installation of a firewall/proxy for all Internet traffic >and one of the "protections" they have implemented is a filtering >process that prohibits access to certain URLs (sites) - some explicitly >and others by somewhat generic rules. One such generic rule is the the >presence of a tilde (~) in the URL. Tilde's are often used as a >shortcut representation of a home directory (particularly on Unix >systems). For some reason our IT department considers such sites as >inappropriate for business/research purposes. It now take VP approval to >unblock such sites. Has anyone else heard of, experienced, or fully >understand such a policy? > > [This message was multi-posted, please pardon any duplication] > > > >- Jack > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Jack A. Smith || > Union Carbide || Phone: (304) 747-5797 > Catalyst Skill Center || FAX: (304) 747-5571 > P.O. Box 8361 || > S. Charleston, WV 25303 || smithja(a)ucarb.com >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > >chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ >To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; >unsubscribe chemweb >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk) > > Lachlan Cranswick - Melbourne, Australia _--_|\ Phone/Fax : (613) 9455-1345 / \ E-mail : lachlan(a)melbpc.org.au \_.--._/ Mobile Phone/Voice Mail : 0412-1141-31 v Crystallographic WWW : http://www.unige.ch/crystal/stxnews/stx/volnteer.htm chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Cyclodextrin.pdb
by David Bradley Science Writer 01 Aug '97

01 Aug '97

Already looked several places but with no luck. Can anyone spare me a pdb file of beta-cyclodextrin or tell me where to look for this kind of thing? Thanks IA Dave Bradley -------------------------------------------------------- | David Bradley Science Writer | | Bradley(a)enterprise.net | | Tel/Fax +44 1223 440834 (Intl) | | Tel/Fax 01223 440834 (UK) | | | | http://homepages.enterprise.net/bradley/elem1.html | -------------------------------------------------------- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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URLs with tildes blocked by firewall
by Smith JA (Jack) 01 Aug '97

01 Aug '97

I have a query for the Chemistry-Internet community at-large, but particularly for industrial sites. Our corporate IT department recently completed the installation of a firewall/proxy for all Internet traffic and one of the "protections" they have implemented is a filtering process that prohibits access to certain URLs (sites) - some explicitly and others by somewhat generic rules. One such generic rule is the the presence of a tilde (~) in the URL. Tilde's are often used as a shortcut representation of a home directory (particularly on Unix systems). For some reason our IT department considers such sites as inappropriate for business/research purposes. It now take VP approval to unblock such sites. Has anyone else heard of, experienced, or fully understand such a policy? [This message was multi-posted, please pardon any duplication] - Jack -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jack A. Smith || Union Carbide || Phone: (304) 747-5797 Catalyst Skill Center || FAX: (304) 747-5571 P.O. Box 8361 || S. Charleston, WV 25303 || smithja(a)ucarb.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Molecule of the Month
by Paul May 01 Aug '97

01 Aug '97

Hi, August's MOTM doesn't have a nice easy name, but goes by the formula [Ag{(NC)Mn(CO)2P(OPh3)(dppm)}2]+. It's one of a family of organometallic compounds that have been recently synthesised, and are unusual in that they contain a central group of 3 metal atoms (-Ag-Mn-Ag-) joined together in a linear chain. The MOTM page is available in Chime & non-Chime formats, and has been written by John Crossley from our X-ray crystallography dept here at Bristol. 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 <mailto:paul.may@bris.ac.uk> <http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm> "The Psi-Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps." Babylon 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Use of "palmtop" computers in chemistry
by Rzepa, Henry 30 Jul '97

30 Jul '97

It appears that the "PDA" generation is finally maturing into a "palmtop" market, with various devices on the market from Apple, US Robotics, HP, and running various types of software. Some of these devices support networking, some only uploads to a "proper" computer, and some can have modems. Does anyone have an example of the application of such devices to chemistry courses, libraries, lab, etc, If so, does it seem whether such devices might have a worthwhile role to play in chemistry, and will provision for their networking need to be thought of? 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. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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ANNOUNCE: Conference on Visualisation for the Biosciences
by Alan Robinson 28 Jul '97

28 Jul '97

Frontiers in Visualisation and Human-Computer Interaction '97 ------------------------------------------------------------- at The European Bioinformatics Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK. 10th and 11th December, 1997. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/fiv97/ Introduction: This two day conference will provide an outstanding opportunity to hear some of the world's leading speakers in the related areas of human- computer interaction and visualisation. It will also provide an arena for professionals in the biosciences and pharmacology to meet with the leading graphics and interaction experts and to develop new ideas and synergies. The meeting will take place in the newly completed conference facilities at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in the grounds of Hinxton Hall, Cambridge, UK. The campus is the site of The European Bioinformatics Institute, The Sanger Centre and the UK MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre. The two keynote speakers are: Professor Andries van Dam, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI (http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/avd/home.html) and Prof. Dr. José Luis Encarnação, Professor Technical University of Darmstadt and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt (http://www.crcg.edu/Staff/enc.html) Both have been visionary pioneers in establishing the discipline of computer graphics, Van Dam being a co-founder of SIGGRAPH and Encarnação being the driving force behind the founding of EUROGRAPHICS. The conference program will cover: Frontiers in 3D Human Interactions Applications of Virtual Reality Distributed Computer-Supported Collaborative Working, CSCW-VR Visualisation in the Biosciences There will also be an opportunity for poster submissions and a trade show. Registration Fee: Before November 10th, the registration fee for the conference is 150 GBP -- Standard Rate 100 GBP -- EBI Industry Affiliates 75 GBP -- EBI BioStandards Partners 75 GBP -- Full-time employees of government, universities, and university-affiliated hospitals The cost of lunches is included in the registration fee. The conference banquet is an additional 35 GBP and will be in The Great Hall of King's College in Cambridge. The closing date for early registration and submission of abstracts is 10th November, 1997. Further information on speakers, hotel accommodation and registration may be found at: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/fiv97/ Yours sincerely, Alan J. Robinson. -- ============================================================ Alan J. Robinson Tel:+44-(0)1223 494625 EMBL Outstation Fax:+44-(0)1223 494468 European Bioinformatics Institute Email: alan(a)ebi.ac.uk Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1RQ, UK http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/ ============================================================ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Conference-Biotechnology-Trieste-13-15 October.
by pschwander＠epo.e-mail.com 25 Jul '97

25 Jul '97

As part of the Regional Industrial Property Programme (RIPP) financed by the European Commission under its PHARE programme of assistance for the countries of central and eastern Europe, the European Patent Office is organising a three-day international conference on "Protecting Pharmaceutical and Biotechnological Inventions" on 13 to 15 October 1997 in Trieste, Italy. The aim of the conference is to introduce the latest intellectual property developments in the pharmaceutical and biotechnological sectors at European level. Several themes will be developed such as the counterfeiting of pharmaceutical products, regulations and patents relating to biotechnological products and processes, the mass media and public opinion on the patentability of biotechnology. Speakers at the conference will be representatives and experts from the European Commission, the European Patent Office, the OECD, private companies and other organisations. Representatives of the IP offices of central European countries will present their views on the patenting of pharmaceutical and biotechnological products. The conference is essentially aimed at patent attorneys, decision- makers, scientists and representatives of the industrial sectors concerned. For further information and registration, please contact the European Patent Office (International technical co- operation - RIPP programme): tel.: +49-89-2399.5213; Fax: +49-89-2399.5239; e-mail: dewez(a)epo.e-mail.com. The programme and registration form are also downloadable from Internet at the following URL address: http://www.Austria.EU.net/epo/intcop/trieste.htm. Salutations, Best regards, Paul SCHWANDER c/o Ministere des Affaires economiques / OPRI / Blv. E. Jacqmain 154 / B-1000 Bruxelles chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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