Biomedical subjects
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We present a "proof-of-concept" model of an Internet-based chemical collaboratory. This is based on an integration of a World-Wide Web server running the HTTP protocol, hypertext-markup language-based browsers, molecular visualizers based on Explorer EyeChem modules, and browsers implementing the virtual-reality modelling language 3D (VRML) scene description.
EyeChem is a network-aware and modular molecular visualization toolkit used within the Iris Explorer Visualization program. Use of the toolkit is illustrated via four typical EyeChem applications, which consist of Explorer maps constructed from chemically oriented modules and developed for use over the new generation of fast networks such as the UK SuperJanet system. EyeChem can also be used to prepare multimedia style visualizations in Quicktime or MPEG format of molecular properties and wavefunctions for archiving via the gopher+ wide area information system. The use of such information in electronic publishing of chemical information is discussed.