Chemical Informatics Letters

Volume 3, Issue 5; November 2001

Editor: Jonathan M Goodman

News:

E-BioSci: A European platform (EC funded) for access and retrieval of full text and factual information in the Life Sciences, run from EMBO. Our aim is to ensure high-quality, peer-reviewed, complete searchable combinations of information that would be made available on the desktop of e very scientist throughout the world,² explains Frank Gannon, EMBO¹s Executive Director. It will operate in harmony with PubMed and PubMed Central.
Chemis3D: Chemis3D is a free Java Applet for the online 3D Visualization of Molecular Models.
ChemSpy: An internet navigator for the chemistry industry. It claims to be "the internet navigator..." but it avaerages less than 500 page views per day.
ChemNetBase: ChemNetBase provides a wealth of chemical information from Chapman & Hall/CRC, and offers the possibility of free trial access.
The Gold Book: How do you name molecules? This is the official IUPAC answer. It is not an easy question.
BOPCRIS: British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service: Browse British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995. Useful for contemporary issues. For example: should the British Museum charge an entrance fee? A discussion is available from 1774. The debate continues.
Exploring Modern Computational Chemistry: A conference at Nottingham, July 31st to August 2nd, 2002, will be attended by many of the world's leading computational chemists.
Molecular scale transistors: How small is it possible to make a transistor? It is possible to get down to molecular dimensions, according to this report from Bell Labs.
TeraGrid: Computing in the data decade. The NPACI received $53million to build a teragrid. The NPACI is the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
Peer-to-Peer networking for academia: Will peer to peer networking have an impact on academia?

Web Sites:

BioPerl: The Bioperl Project is an international association of developers of open source Perl tools for bioinformatics, genomics and life science research. Perl has a key role as it saved the human genome project! The bioperl servers reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA with facilities donated by Genetics Institute.
http://chemistry.about.com/: A guide to chemistry, run by About.
CHI - chemical informatics conference: First Announcement and Call for Papers for the Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Sixth Annual Chemoinformatics conference.