Some Chemistry Resources on the Internet Compiled by Gary Wiggins (with help from Dr. Larry Wier and other subscribers to CHMINF-L) Indiana University Chemistry Library Originally compiled: October 20, 1993 Latest revision: December 5, 1993 Please send additions or corrections to: WIGGINS@INDIANA.EDU or WIGGINS@INDIANA.BITNET Added or revised entries are preceded by: ++++ ++++ American Chemical Society Gopher. The ACS Gopher contains Supplementary Material pages from the Journal of the American Chemical Society, beginning 1993 (Page images as TIFF with Group 4 fax compression), Copyright Transfer Form (same format), and Instructions for Authors for ACS journals (ASCII file). Among other resources, there are the ACS Books Catalog, ACS Information numbers, and links to other chemistry gophers. gopher acsinfo.acs.org (port 70) American Chemical Society Division of Computers in Chemistry (COMP) Newsletter. Accessible via anonymous ftp to kekule.osc.edu (128.146.36.48) and look in pub/chemistry/comp_news directory. ANCHODD, Medicinal Chemistry/Pharmacy List. Send the message: SUBSCRIBE ANCHODD FIRSTNAME LASTNAME to: listserv@cc.utas.edu.au. ASCHIN-LIST, Asia Pacific Chemical Information List. Send the message subscribe aschin-list firstname lastname to: listserver@nuscc.nus.sg (NB. It really has the -er on listserv- er, but I found listserv worked also! --GW) BioNet Electronic Newsgroup Network. This network was developed to allow easy worldwide communications between biological scientists who use a variety of computer networks. Newsgroup topics can be distributed to sites on Inter- net, USENET, BITNET, EARN, NETNORTH, HEANET, and JANET. Unix computers access the newsgroups via software like rn (read news) or nn (nonews). BioQUEST. BioQUEST is a set of simulations and related material for biology instruction (genetics, biometrics, molecular biology, etc.). It's a cooperative effort of several academic institutions. Write to asdg@umdd.umd.edu for information. An introduction to the project can be obtained with anonymous FTP from: cs.beloit.edu /public/bioquest. Biosciences File Server. Send the message HELP to: bioserve@umdc.umd.edu or bioserve@umdc. BIOSYM Users Group. Send a request to join to: dibug-request@comp.bioz.unibas.ch. BOING, Bio Oriented INternet Gophers. Point your gopher client at merlot.welch.jhu.edu and select: 13. Search Databases at Hopkins (Vectors, etc....) 15. Search BOING (Bio Oriented INternet Gophers) Buckminster Fullerene mailer. Send the message: INTRO or HELP to: bucky@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu. To get the bibliography, send the keyword BIBLIO to the same address. The service is maintained by Jack Fischer's group at the University of Pennsylvania. Buckyball database. This fullerene database is accessible via anonymous ftp at: physics.arizona.edu. login: ftp passwd: your email address. It is found in: /usr/ftp/asc. The site has a program called PCBIB that allows searches of the database by keywords. The resource is based on materials from Professor Richard E. Smalley's Bucky- Ball Bibliography. It can also be searched by telnetting to: sabio1.library.arizona.edu login: sabio. Choose "Other data- bases" from the menu. CancerNet, National Cancer Institute's Mail Server. CancerNet is available on the NIH gopher server: gopher.nih.gov. Select #3 Health and Clinical Information and #1 CancerNet infor- mation. Send the message: HELP to: cancernet@icicb.nci.nih.gov. ++++ CARL UnCover's Internet address: database.carl.org or 192.54.81.76. CCL, Computational Chemistry List. Send the message: send help from chemistry to: OSCPOST@ohstpy or OSCPOST@oscsunb.osc.edu. CHARMM Users Group. Send a request to join to: charmm-bbs-sysop@emperor.harvard.edu. CHEM-COMP, Computational Chemistry. Send the message: join chem-comp firstname lastname to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk. CHEMCONF, the Online Computer Conference. The first online com- puter conference took place June 14-August 20, 1993 on the topic "Applications of Technology in Teaching Chemistry." The proceed- ings can be accessed by sending the e-mail message: GET CHEMCONF WELCOME to: listserv@umdd OR listserv@umdd.umd.edu. CHEMCORD, the General Chemistry Coordinators' Discussion Group. Send the message: subscribe chemcord firstname lastname to: listserv@umdd OR listserv@umdd.umd.edu. CHEMED-L, Chemistry Education Discussion List. Send the message: subscribe chemed-l firstname lastname to: listserv@uwf.bitnet. CHEME-L, the Chemical Engineering List. Send the message: subscribe cheme-l firstname lastname to: listserv@psuvm. ++++ Chemical Engineering Digest. Available via anonymous ftp to: cc.curtin.edu.au or 134.7.70.1 Login with Name: anonymous and Password: chemeng Chemistry Gopher at Yale. The Chemistry Gopher at Yale is an excellent example of a re- source that leads through Gopherspace for topics such as chemical software, funding information, directories of scientists, etc. Name=Chemistry gopher at Yale Type=1 Host=yaleinfo.yale.edu Port=7000 Path=1/Chemistry. You can get to this from a UNIX machine which has gopher with the command: gopher yaleinfo.yale.edu 7000 The path to the information is through "Yale University Information" > "Academic Information" > "Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences" > "Academic Departments" > "Chemistry". ++++ Chemistry Gopher server in Finland. This server is accessed at gopher.csc.fi port=70 path=1/tiede/kemia Chemistry Information. San Diego State University; 1993. "Chemistry Information" is an electronic reference source cover- ing such topics as nomenclature, compound identification, proper- ties, structure determination, toxicity, synthesis, registry numbers, and synthesis. It also provides definition of terms, meanings of acronyms, etc. To acquire the files, FTP to: ucssun1.sdsu.edu /pub/chemras. Use binary and the mget *.* command to transfer all files to an IBM DOS-compatible PC. Chemistry Resources on the Internet. Remote Gopher Resources via Univ. of Minnesota > Internet file server (ftp) sites > InterNIC: Internet Network Information Center > InterNIC Information Serv- ices (General Atomics) > Internet Information for Everybody > Things to Do on the Internet > Chemistry. This Gopher path leads you to an extensive listing of chemistry-related newsgroups, software archives, and information about resources on the Inter- net that may be of interest to chemists. CHEM-MOD, Modeling Aspects of Computational Chemistry. Send the message: join chem-mod firstname lastname to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk. CHMINF-L, the Chemical Information Sources Discussion List. CHMINF-L covers all information sources that can be used to answer questions a chemist might have. Send the message: subscribe chminf-l firstname lastname to: listserv@iubvm OR listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu. CMTS-L, the Chemical Management and Tracking Systems List. CMTS-L serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas on the estab- lishment of computerized systems to manage chemical inventories. Send the message: subscribe CMTS-L firstname lastname to: listserv@cornell.edu. CORROS-L, The Corrosion Special Interest List. Send the message: subscribe corros-l firstname lastname to: listserv@ib.rl.ac.uk. DIALOG's Internet address: DIALOG.COM or 192.132.3.254 DIALOG Online Chemistry Search Manual. Accessible via anonymous ftp to oavax.csuchico.edu pub:chemistry.dir. FORENS-L, Forensic Sciences Discussion Group. Send the message: subscribe firstname lastname to: FORENS-REQUEST@FAUVAX OR FORENS-REQUEST@ACC.FAU.EDU. Genetic Algorithms Users Group. Send a request to: ga-molecule-request@tammy.harvard.edu. Genome Data Base. Send a message to: help@welch.jhu.edu or 128.220.59.10. A pass- word and loginid will be issued. hep-th@xxx.lanl.gov, Bulletin Board for String/Conformal/Field Theory Preprints. This includes a preprint file on Condensed Matter Theory. Send the message: HELP on the subject line to: hep-th@xxx.lanl.gov. HIRIS-L, High Resolution IR Spectroscopy List. Send the message SUB HIRIS-L firstname lastname to: listserv@iveuncc. HyperChem Users' E-Mail Group. Send a request to: hyperchem-request@autodesk.com. ICS-L, International Chemometrics Society. Send the message: subscribe ICS-L firstname lastname to: listserv@umdd OR listserv@umdd.umd.edu. IFPHEN-L, the Interfacial Phenomena Discussion Group. Send the message: subscribe ifphen-l firstname lastname to: listserv@wsuvm1. ++++ Information Retrieval in Chemistry. December 1992-. To access the information, FTP to: leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr (143.233.2.1) at /pub/chemistry. Note that a mirror of this source is at: chem.ucdavis.edu (128.120.7.19) at /go_chem/Index/Chemsites_ac/leon.nrcps.ariadne- t.gr. IUBIO Archive for Molecular Biology. This is Don Gilbert's archive at Indiana University: FTP to fly.bio.indiana.edu or 129.79.224.25 /molbio/chemistry/ibmpc or /molbio/chemistry/mac. ++++ JCPExpress is a free trial service for electronic distribution of preprints of manuscripts between acceptance and publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Format is PostScript and the original Tex, WordPerfect, or Microsoft Word format if available. To access by e-mail, send a message to: express@jcp.uchicago.edu. Put in the Subject line: help and an instruction file will be returned. For instructions on obtaining FTP copies, put the word: ftpinfo on the Subject line of your message. ++++ Journal of the American chemical Society (JACS) Supplementary Material. SEE: American Chemical Society Gopher ++++ Journal of Chemical Physics. SEE: JCPExpress ++++ Life Sciences Network's Internet address: LSN.COM Note: This network was discontinued in April 1993. ++++ Laboratory Safety Point your gopher toward: gizmo.oeh.cornell.edu and choose: Worldwide Gopher and Information Servers North America/USA/New York Cornell University Office of Environmental Health Gopher Laboratory Safety Internet Chem. Resources LiMB; Listing of Molecular Biology Databases. 3.0 ed. LiMB lists over 100 databases in molecular biology. Copies of LiMB in hardcopy or floppy disk are available from: Christian Burks, LiMB, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, T-10, K710, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 (505- 667-7510) Internet: limb@life.lanl.gov. To obtain the LiMB file, send the message: limddata to: bioserve@life.lanl.gov. List of Molecular Science Applications for Digital Platforms. Use anonymous FTP to connect to: gatekeeper.dec.com or 16.1.0.2 and change to: pub/DEC/DECNEWS. Get news0409.txt. Macintosh Chemistry Tutorials. FTP to archive.umich.edu and go to /mac/misc/chemistry. Macintosh Science Software. FTP to ra.nrl.navy.mil or 128.60.0.21 and go to: /MacSciTech/chem (NB: This site is case sensitive.) MMODINFO, MacroModel Users Group. Send the message SUBSCRIBE MMODINFO to: mmodinfo-request@uoft02.utoledo.edu. Archives of the MMODINFO list are available via anonymous ftp at: ftp.utoledo.edu (131.183.1.1) [.MMOD] for mail; [.CHEMISTRY] for others. (NB: This is a VAX VMS machine.) ++++ MOSSBA, Mossbauer Spectroscopy, Software & Forum. Send the message: subscribe mossba firstname lastname to: listserv@usachvm1 National Library of Medicine Publications. FTP to nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov and login as: nlmpubs for access to items such as NLM Current Bibliographies in Medicine, AIDS Bibli- ography, NLM Fact Sheets, chapters of the Online Services Refer- ence Manual, Toxicology Information Program publications and others in both ASCII and PostScript formats. National Science Foundation Science & Technology Information System. telnet stis.nsf.gov and login as: public. Then enter a personal ID up to eight characters. ++++ ORGCHEM, Organic Chemistry Discussion Group BBS. For the latest information on this list, contact Curt Breneman: breneman@xray.chem.rpi.edu. The BBS address is: orgchem@extreme.chem.rpi.edu ORG-GEOCHEM. Send the message: join org-geochem firstname lastname to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk. POLYMERP, the Polymer Physics Discussion List. Send the message: subscribe polymerp firstname lastname to: listserv@rutgers.edu ++++ RADCH-L, Radiochemistry Discussion List. Send the message: sub radch-l firstname lastname to: LISTSERV@FRCPN11.BITNET ++++ REACTIVE. This list is for discussion and exchange of informaltion about air sampling and monitoring of short-lived reactive pollutants. Send the message: subscribe reactive firstname lastname to: LISTSERV@MCGILL1.BITNET Retrieve server (genetics databases). Send the message HELP to: retrieve@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. SAFETY, The Laboratory Safety List. Send the message: subscribe safety firstname lastname to: listserv@uvmvm OR listserv@uvmvm.uvm.edu. SCODAE, a communications network for pharmacy schools. Send the message: subscribe scodae firstname lastname to: listserv@umab. SHARE-L, Spectroscopic Happenings on Actinides List. Send the message: subscribe share-l firstname lastname to: listserv@frors12. Springer Journals Preview Service. March 1993-. Tables of contents, titles (article heads), and summaries (ab- stracts) of papers from 30 Springer journals in the life sciences and radiology are available 3 to 6 weeks before the appearance of the printed version. There is an annual fee for the abstract information, but the other data can be had at no cost. Send the message: help to: svjps@dhdspri6. ++++ STN Database Summary Sheets. Either ASCII or PostScript version of more than 160 STN Database Summary Sheets are available via anonymous FTP at: infor.cas.org or 134.243.5.70. Log on as: anonymous and use your e-mail address as the password. STN International's Columbus Internet address: stnc.cas.org or 134.243.5.32. ++++ STN Karlsruhe's Internet address: stn.fiz-karlsruhe.de or 141.66.16.150. ++++ SVSERV, Springer-Verlag demonstration files. The server has new books published by Springer-Verlag, demonstra- tions of their software and databases, tables of contents, etc. Send the message: subscribe inf to: svserv@vax.ntp.springer.de or use anonymous ftp to: TRICK.NTP.SPRINGER.DE (192.129.24.12) User ID is ANONYMOUS and Password is your e-mail address. Sybyl Users Group. Send a request to join to: sybylreq@quant.chem.rpi.edu. USENET News Groups: sci.chem; sci.chem.organomet; sci.engr.chem; sci.polymers. The USENET News Groups allow easy access to a variety of topics. Check with your local computer service to see how to access these services.