To boost traffic in this mailing list (where's everyone? still on vacations?): ACD is giving away its structure drawing applet. The URL is http://www.acdlabs.com/products/java/sda/ Suggestions, comments, opinions, etc. are welcome! Here is an excerpt from the applet's home page: ACD Structure Drawing Applet (ACD/SDA) is a complete structure drawing, editing and visualization tool written in Java that can be incorporated into HTML documents. The applet can be used for composing substructure queries to databases and visualizing results. Unlike platform-dependent plugins or ActiveX controls, the applet runs in the same way on any hardware platform or operating system - the only requirement is a Java-compatible browser such as Netscape 2.0 or later or MS Internet Explorer 3.0 or later. ACD Structure Drawing Applet is fully compatible with JDK 1.0.2 specifications and does not cause problems even with the older versions of popular browsers such as Netscape Navigator 3.0. ACD Structure Drawing Applet is a chemically-intelligent applet. It understands valency and atom charges and sets them automatically as you draw your structure. If you make a mistake, the applet shows you where. The main applet's features include: - drawing of any atom from the periodic system with or without a charge - drawing of single, double and triple bonds - automatic accounting of hydrogen atoms according to heavy atom's valency and charge - moving and erasing selected parts of the structure or the whole structure - undo and redo function - drawing stereo bonds - zooming in and zooming out - predefined molecular templates - ability to add customized molecular templates - ability to attach template to an atom or a bond - floating window mode - exporting of the drawn structure into MDL/MOL file format ver. 8 - loading of structure into the applet from the server - loading of structure into the applet by a JavaScript function call - composing substructure queries based on a drawn structure - GIF export of the graphic contents - removable toolbars for maximum structure visualization area - clean function for normalizing your molecular drawing (server support required) Please note that the applet is free for a non-commercial use. Commercial users, please contact ACD. Cheers, -- ************************************************************** Val Kulkov val@acdlabs.com Phone +1(416)368-3435 Fax +1(416)368-5596 Visit ACD/ILab at http://www.acdlabs.com/ilab/ Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. 133 Richmond St, Suite 605, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2L3, CANADA 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)