On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Joel Crisp wrote:
Hi [...]
From our own experience of the CTICM ( our associate unit here in Bristol ) this problem is a very real one. Sue and Gill are too overworked to even *look* at the possibilites offered by the web, let alone realise them.
I suggest the possibility of a collaboration may be the best way to encourage these centres to move positively on this.
I fully agree with this. With enthusiasm it is remarkable how much can get done. One of the benefits that the UK has is that it's small enough for people to get together and there is a long tradition of collaboration. One of the delights of the PPS course (http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html) was the great degree of collaboration from the participants. Amongst the achievements were lists of resources, collation of technology, and foremost the creation of a hyperglossary. Echoing the suggestion here we floated the idea of a 'molecule of the week' but it didn't get off the ground. The central thing is that there should be an easy way of mounting cgi-scripts and editing them. (Remember that almost all forms require a cgi-script to process them.) A library of cgi tools would be extremely valuable. If anyone has a database engine that can process the results that is extremely valuable (we looked at /rdb - the author gave us some help - but we didn't have enough resource). IF we can get a collection of resources I am sure that otehrs will add to it rather than duplicating it. P. Peter Murray-Rust, Glaxo Research & Dev. (pmr1716@ggr.co.uk); (BioMOO: PeterMR) Birkbeck College, ubcg09q@cryst.bbk.ac.uk, CBMT/Daresbury mbglx@seqnet.dl.ac.uk http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html, http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/HOME.html ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)