Paul May wrote:

Happy new millennium to all of you!

The first Molecule of the Month for the new millennium is, appropriately, DNA, and is available in all four versions (HTML-only, Chime, Java and VRML).

It was written by myself, and is available from the usual URL:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm

Hello Paul, hello ChemWeb useres, I have developed the tool (VRML File Creator for Chemical Structures) which Paul has used to create the VRML scene of the DNA. The VRML scene includes a switch node to change between the various display styles. However IMHO it is not necessary to display the structure in all of these display styles. The 'Capped' styles shows all important things of the DNA. Paul please create another VRML scene of the DNA but only in the capped display style. This WRL file should be much smaller than 1.3 MB. You can add this file as an alternative smaller VRML scene. Furthermore I am working on another VRML Creator especially for biomolecular structures. It will contain all of the important display styles like ribbon etc.. However I have to work on this in my free time and so it can take some more weeks until I can release a prototype version. Best wishes and a Happy New Year Frank Oellien -- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg Naegelsbachstrasse 25, D-91052 Erlangen (Germany) Tel (+49)-(0)9131-85-26579 Fax (+49)-(0)9131-85-26566 email: franko@chemie.uni-erlangen.de WWW : http://www2.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/oellien/ http://www2.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/ChemVis/ 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)