Re: new entries
P. Murray-Rust (mbglx@s-crim1.dl.ac.uk)
Wed, 25 Jan 1995 23:28:04 +0000 (GMT)
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There are no chemical editors that I know of that are in the public
domain or that are freely available. There is also no PD tool for
reading a connexion table and rendering this as a 2-D chemical formula.
Therefore the only way forward for chemical formulae is to use a chemical
editor on a specific platform (not normally UNIX). Alternatively we can
take SMILES formulae and automatically convert them to diagrams. Unless
you can do chemical diagrams efficiently yourself, I wouldn't try. It's
easier for us to do them and post them. If you want a gif put in, write
the SMILES and we can grep for this and convert it. More instructions
later, if your'e interested.
BTW - it's probably not worth trying to draw chemical structures with ASCII
characters. There is a good chance that the Web will munch some of them.
(See the entries for butyl, etc)
P.
Peter Murray-Rust (pmr1716@ggr.co.uk) Glaxo Research & Development, Greenford,UK
mbglx@seqnet.dl.ac.uk, http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/pmr.html (Thanks to AlanBleasby)