Uptake of Chemical MIME

Christopher Hogue

Visiting Scientist National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH

The following url fragments in "" represent Alta Vista (http://www.altavista.digital.com/) searches using the Advanced Query feature after the keyword "link:" (e.g. link:www.ch.ic.ac.uk). It can report an estimate or actual count of the number of pages pointing to a particular link. This search was performed on March 27, 1996.

"www.ch.ic.ac.uk" shows that there are about 4000 web pages pointing to the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, technology and Medicine, largely on account of their pioneering work with delivering chemistry over the internet and the main chemical MIME-type url.
"www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemical_mime.html" has about 600 pages pointing to the test page used for a variety of chemical MIME-types.
"chem.leeds.ac.uk/Project/MIME.html", A Chemical MIME Home page with about 300 pages pointing to it.
"www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime2.html" the Chemical MIME-types standards document has 76 pages pointing to it.

A list of some major databases serving up chemical MIME-type data shows that they are rather saturated with outside links:

"www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov" NCBI has about 8000 referring pages.
"www.pdb.bnl.gov" Brookhaven has about 4000 referring pages.
"www.prosci.uci.edu" Protein Science has 2000 referring pages.

If anyone knows of other uses, please inform Christopher Hogue, Ben Whitaker or Henry Rzepa.