Global Chemweb?

[peter Murray-rust]

On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Joel Crisp wrote:

> Hi
[...]
> 
> >From our own experience of the CTICM ( our associate unit here in Bristol )
> this problem is a very real one. Sue and Gill are too overworked to even
> *look* at the possibilites offered by the web, let alone realise them.
> 
> I suggest the possibility of a collaboration may be the best way
> to encourage these centres to move positively on this.
> 
I fully agree with this.  With enthusiasm it is remarkable how much can 
get done.  One of the benefits that the UK has is that it's small enough 
for people to get together and there is a long tradition of collaboration.

One of the delights of the PPS course 
(http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html) 
was the great degree of collaboration from the participants.  Amongst the 
achievements were lists of resources, collation of technology, and 
foremost the creation of a hyperglossary.  Echoing the suggestion here we 
floated the idea of a 'molecule of the week' but it didn't get off the 
ground.

The central thing is that there should be an easy way of mounting 
cgi-scripts and editing them.  (Remember that almost all forms require a 
cgi-script to process them.)  A library of cgi tools would be extremely 
valuable.  If anyone has a database engine that can process the results 
that is extremely valuable (we looked at /rdb - the author gave us some 
help - but we didn't have enough resource).

IF we can get a collection of resources I am sure that otehrs will add to 
it rather than duplicating it.  

	P.


Peter Murray-Rust, Glaxo Research & Dev. (pmr1716 at ggr.co.uk); (BioMOO: PeterMR)
Birkbeck College, ubcg09q at cryst.bbk.ac.uk, CBMT/Daresbury mbglx at seqnet.dl.ac.uk
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html, http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/HOME.html


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