Chemistry on the Internet:
The Best of the Web 1996

Henry S. Rzepa, Imperial College,
Steven M. Bachrach, Northern Illinois University
and Thomas Pierce, Rohm and Haas

This poster continues our efforts to identify the best new developments on the web for chemists. At the "Chemistry on the Infobahn" session at the Chicago ACS meeting in August 1996, we presented our list of what was best in chemistry on the web. This year, as part of the "Intranets: Chemical applications and uses of web technologies" session at the Orlando ACS meeting, we present two separate efforts at identifying the best of the web. First, we present our own personal evaluation of new web sites that are innovative and novel. Please note that while many of the sites we previously identified continue to provide extremely valuable services to the chemistry community, we have opted to include only new sites this year. This selection reflects the personal opinions of the three authors only, and does not represent any form of official endorsement by anyone else or any organization. The second part of this poster presents the results of the survey we operated for the past year, allowing for members of the chemistry community to vote for their choices for Best of the Web. Again, these selections are based on the votes of the general community and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the authors or any organization.

Use of New Technologies
Chemscape Chime http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/chime.html Plugin module to view and manipulate structures within a web page (MDL)
Sketch and Fetch http://www.webcom.com/~tripos2/SandF.html Example of use of Java to build a molecular editor for use as a front-end to a database (Tripos)
Molecular Editor http://129.11.12.1/ICAMS/people/denis/moledit.html Another structure editor written in Java (Denis Bayada)
ChemSymphony http://mc.ioc.ac.ru/mc2/viewer/index.htm Comprehensive molecular viewer written in Java (Anatoli Krassavine)
HyperSpec http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/nmr Spectral viewer written in Java (Richard Kiner)
Open Molecule Foundation http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/omf/ Provides reusable, pre-competitive applets and Java packages for free to the chemical- and bio-informatics communities
Cn3D http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cn3d.html A 3D molecular viewer that directly accesses a large protein database (Christopher Hogu)
GIFs and PNGs of 2D-Plots of Chemical Structures http://schiele.organik.uni-erlangen.de/services/gif.html 2D structures in GIF on demand (Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt)
Chemistry Databases - Free
Indiana University Molecular Structure Center http://saturn.chem.indiana.edu/ X-ray crystallography database with molecular viewer applet (John Huffman)
ILL's Gallery of 3D VRML Crystal Structures http://193.49.43.3/dif/3D_gallery.html Collection of VRML images of crystals (Alan Hewat)
ChemFinder http://chemfinder.camsoft.com/ Search (by name, formula, or MW) the web for compounds (CambridgeSoft)
The WWW Chemical Structures Database http://schiele.organik.uni-erlangen.de/services/webmol.html The first non-textual search engine operating on chemical data found on the web (Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt)
Chemistry Databases - Commercial
KR ScienceBase http://krscience.dialog.com/ Search the Dialog databases using a web front-end (Knight-Ridder)
Chemical Patents Plus http://casweb.cas.org/chempatplus/ Search the chemical patent literature with a web front-end and applets to view structures (CAS)
Tetrahedron Information System http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/tis/ Search the Tetrahedron journals (Elsevier)
Electronic Conferences
Electronic Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ectoc/echet96
http://hackberry.chem.niu.edu/echet96		 (Henry Rzepa, Jim Snyder)
Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference (ECCC-3) http://hackberry.chem.niu.edu/ECCC3 (Steven Bachrach, Stephen Gray, Herbert Homeier, Henry Rzepa, and Harold Schranz)
Molecular Graphics and Modeling Society Electronic Conference http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/mgms/ (Graham Richards, Art Olson, Rod Hubbard and Barry Hardy)
Electronic Journals
Chemical Communications http://chemcomm.clic.ac.uk/ A structured document Hyperwave server running an electronic journal (RSC)
The Chemical Educator http://journals.springer-ny.com/chedr/ (Springer)
The Journal of Physical Chemistry http://acsinfo.acs.org/plweb/jrpublic/jpchax/jpchax.html (ACS)
Mendeleev Communications http://mc.ioc.ac.ru/mc.htm (RSC and Russian Academy of Sciences)
Educational resources
The Houghton Mifflin Resource Site for Instructors of Chemistry http://chemed.chem.binghamton.edu:2000/ Detailed list of education resources on the net (Jim Dix)
Journal of Chemical Education Internet http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCEWWW/index.html Resources for educators including chemical texts datatbase (Hal Morris)

Results of the community voting for the Best of the Web in Chemistry