Recent Applications of Hyperactive Chemistry and the World-Wide-Web:
Towards an Integrated Chemistry Information Environment

Henry S. Rzepa,* Omer Casher, Christopher Leach
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY.
and Peter Murray-Rust
Virtual School of Molecular Sciences

Article 6
New Initiatives in Chemical Education: An On-Line Symposium,
June 3 to July 19, 1996


Abstract: We describe our model of a virtual chemistry information environment of inter-linked techniques, experimental and instrumental data, and information sources held at Imperial College and elsewhere. We have made use of a number of recent World-Wide Web technologies for incorporating active chemical information into documents, including chemical MIME standards, chemical structure markup language (CSML), Virtual Reality Modelling language (VRML), Java applets and Chemical Markup Language (CML). The overall objective is that the user will be able to follow a chemical "thread" to acquire an integrated portfolio of "hyperactive" molecular information, replacing the more traditional outcome of handwritten notes and photocopies of primary information found in more traditional libraries.
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