Chemistry on the Internet: The best of the Web 1995

Steven Bachrach, Thomas Pierce and Henry Rzepa

A selection of high quality chemical information on the Internet, presented as a poster at the ACS Symposium in Chicago on August 21, 1995 as part of the "Chemistry on the Infobahn" session. In compiling this selection, we have focused on the work of key individuals who we believe have shown a vision of the future in creating innovative and original chemistry Internet resources for us all.

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The best "World Collections" of pointers<
1. Virtual Chemistry Library at UCLA: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html: Max Kopelevich's original "global" collection:
2. Sheffield: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/chem/chemistry-www-sites.html: Mark Winter's global collection:
3. Chemistry Internet Resources: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem/cheminfo/chemres.html: Gary Wiggins' Collection of Chemistry Resources:
4. Australian Chemistry Network: http://apamac.ch.adfa.oz.au/: Alan Arnold's Collection of Chemistry Resources:
5. Chemistry Mailing Lists: http://bionmr1.rug.ac.be/chemistry/overview.html: Kris Boulez's Collection of E-mail lists:
6. The Yahoo Collection of Chemical Pointers: http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Chemistry: An edited collection of chemistry highlites:
7. ChemEd: Chemistry Education Resources: http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/chemistry.html: Alan Cairns' Collection of Education resources:
8. Virtual Chemical Engineering Library: http://www.che.ufl.edu/WWW-CHE/index.html: Dale Kirmse's Collection of ChemEng resources:
9. NIH GenoBase: http://specter.dcrt.nih.gov:8004/: Ron Taylor and Adam Ginsburg's Molecular Biology Collection:
10. POLY-Links: http://www.polymers.com: Polymer Information:
Chemical Internet Standards
1. The Chemical MIME Project and Discussions: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemime/http://chem.leeds.ac.uk/Project/MIME.html: Chemical Internet Standards project by Peter Murray-Rust, Henry Rzepa and Ben Whitaker:
"Value added" Processing of chemical information
1. Project CORINA: http://schiele.organik.uni-erlangen.de/services/3d.html: J. Sadowski and: J. Gasteiger's 2D to 3D Coordinate Conversions:
2. SCOP: Structural Classification of Proteins: http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/scop: A. Murzin, S. E. Brenner, T. J. P. Hubbard and C. Chotia's Protein Exploratorium:
3. Molecular Biology Images: http://expasy.hcuge.ch/pub/Graphics/IMAGES/GIF: Marcus Peitsch's Seminal collection of Protein Images:
4. KLOTHO: Biochemical Compounds Declarative database: http://ibc.wustl.edu/klotho/: Toni Kazic's innovative Work on Web based Databases:
5. Principles of Protein Structure: http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html: Ground breaking courseware edited by Peter Murray-Rust and Alan Mills:
6. Molecular Hyperglossaries: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ectoc/glossary/: Peter Murray-Rust and Chris Leach's Hyperlinked Database concept:
7. Interactive Search and Display and PDB at-a-glance: http://www.nih.gov/molecular_modeling/pdb_at_a_glance.html http://www.nih.gov/htbin/pdb: Peter Fitzgerald's "Molecules R Us" Service:
8. Gaussian Basis set utility: http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/: K. Schuchardt and D. Feller's Basis set Database:
9. Silver Platter (WebSpirs): http://www.silverplatter.com/sampler/webspirs.html: A Web Interface to a major Database Collection:
10. AMBER Home Page: http://www.amber.ucsf.edu/amber/amber.html: Tom Cheatham and Bill Ross's Amber Information pages:
11. MSI Life Sciences Helper: http://www.msi.com/marketing/ls/ls.html: Help for Quanta Users:
12. Fullerene Database and Information: telnet://sabio.arizona.edu:23/http://www.susx.ac.uk/Users/kroto/: Wyn Locke's Fullerene Collection:
13. Nanotechnology: http://www.arc.ab.ca/~morgan/Nano.html: Sean Morgan's Nanotechnology Archives:
14. Condensed Phase Computer Simulation: http://www.dl.ac.uk/CCP/CCP5/main.html: M. Leslie's CCP5 Project pages:
15. Fisher Scientific Chemical Catalogues: http://www.fisher1.com/: On-line Catalogue Information:
16. UTMB NMR center: http://www.nmr.utmb.edu/: Bruce Luxon's Links to NMR on the internet:
17. WebElements and the Periodic Table: http://www.shef.ac.uk:80/~chem/web-elements/: Mark Winter's WebElements Project (operating since 1993!):
18. Chemists Address/Phone Book: http://hackberry.chem.niu.edu:70/0/ChemDir/index.html: Steve Bachrach's Global Chemists Directory:
19. On-Line Academic Chemistry Employment Clearinghouse: http://hackberry.chem.niu.edu:70/1/ChemJob: Steve Bachrach's Global Chemists Job Clearing Project:
20. Instability Dynamics of Fracture: http://www-i.almaden.ibm.com/vis/fracture/prl_4.html: A: multimedia reprint by Farid Abraham, D. Brodbeck, R. A. Rafey, W. E. Rudge:
Conferences and Talks
1. Electronic Computational Chemistry Conferences (ECCC-1 & 2): http://hackberry.chem.niu.edu:70/0/http://hackberry.chem.niu.edu/ECCC2/: The First Web based Compchem Conferences edited by Steve Bachrach:
2. Electronic Conference on Trends in Organic Chemistry (ECTOC-1): http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ectoc: First Web based Orgchem Conference edited by Henry Rzepa:
3. OSC home page and CCL discussion list: http://osc.edu/chemistry.html http://fox.pomona.claremont.edu/chem/compchem/cc/ghindex.html: Jan Labanowski's Pre-eminent Chemical Discussion Forum:
4. NMR '95 Poster Session: http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/nmr/poster.html: Barry Hardy's NMR Posters:
5. Electronic Glycoscience Conference (EGC-1): http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/people/barry_spring95/barry.gig_econf.html: A globally edited Glycoscience Collaboratory:
Visual Sources and Programs
1. HotJava: http://java.sun.com/applets/applets/ChemicalModels/index.html: Chemistry Examples of the Java Programming Language:
2. Virtual Reality Modelling Language: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/VRML/: Omer Casher's Pioneering Work in: Chemistry:
3. Molecular Model Types and Rendering Techniques: http://scsg9.unige.ch/eng/toc.html: François Savary's: Visual Guide:
4. Molecular Modelling at NIH: http://www.nih.gov/molecular_modeling/quick_finder.html: High Quality modelling archive:
5. Chemistry ART Gallery: http://www.csc.fi/lul/chem/graphics.html http://www.csc.fi/lul/csc_chem.html: Leif Laaksonen's Pioneering Work in Chemical Art:
6. Hyperactive Molecules: http://chem.leeds.ac.uk/Project/MIME.html http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemical_mime.html: Ben Whitaker's (site of the first operating chemistry web server: Dec 1992) and Henry Rzepa's Hyperactive Chemistry:
7. MDL ISIS/Draw Offer: http://www.mdli.com/ioffer.html: A Personal Mac/Windows Chem Drawing package:
8. RasMol: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rasmol.html: Roger Sayle's PC/Mac/Unix Free Viewer:
9. XMol Information: http://www.msc.edu/msc/docs/xmol/XMol.html: X-Window Viewing program from MSC:
Teaching Resources
1. GC/MS of Jamaican Coffee and Pimento!: http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/lectures/pimento.html: Robert Lancashire's GC/MS/J-CAMP Project:
2. Multimedia Chemistry at UCSD: http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education/samplegateway.html: Kent Wilson's Superb PhysChem Course:
3. The Virginia Tech Project: http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/vt-chem-ed.html: Brian Tissue's Teaching Collection:
4. Global Instructional Chemistry: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/GIC/: Henry Rzepa's collection of teaching materials:
Electronic Journals
1. Journal of Molecular Modelling: http://derioc1.organik.uni-erlangen.de/info/JMOLMOD/jmolinfo.html: Edited by Tim Clark:
2. Elsevier WWW Publications: http://www.elsevier.nl: Including Steve Heller's TrAC Internet Column:
3. Network Science: http://www.awod.com/netsci: :
4. Journal of Biological Chemistry: http://www-jbc.stanford.edu/jbc/: :
5. Journal of Computer Aided Molecular Design: http://wucmd.wustl.edu/jcamd/jcamd.html: :
6. Electronic Protein Science: http://www.prosci.uci.edu/: :
7. Journal of Chemical Physics Gopher (JCP Express): gopher://jcp.uchicago.edu:70/1: :
Organisations
1. ACSWeb: http://www.acs.org: :
2. Chemical Abstracts Service: http://info.cas.org/welcome.html: :
3. Royal Society of Chemistry: http://chemistry.rsc.org/rsc/: :

Chemistry on the Internet: The best of the Web 1996

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