Chemistry Information on the Internet
last updated February 8, 2001
Saved from http://hackberry.chem.trinity.edu/cheminf.html
New and Exciting Chemistry Web Developments
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Publications and Journals
- Electronic
Publishing takes Journals into a New Realm
- Chemical and Engineering News article from the May 18, 1998 issue
on electronic journals.
- Internet Journal of Chemistry
- A new electronic journal dedicated to publishing chemistry in the
Internet. The entire journal is structured to take advantage of the electornic
publishing medium to enhance the communication of chemical research. An
article describing the design of the journal Designing the
Next-Generation Chemistry Journal: The Internet Journal of Chemistry is
published in Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship.
- Tetrahedron
Information System
- Online access to the Tetrahedron journals, including full text.
Available for free through June 1996
Chemical Data and Visualization
- Internet Resources for
Chemistry
- This page provides links to World Wide Web sites related to chemistry. It
includes directories,web sites for chemistry departments and other acedemic
centers, chemical companies, and other types of resources.
- NIST WebBook
- A fantastic collection of chemical data collected by NIST. Search the
database by chemical formula, name, or molecular weight. Obtain thermochemical
data (for over 4000 organic and small inorganic compounds) for the gas and
liquid phase, proton affinities, and more. Also contains IR and NMR data,
which are viewed through interactive Java applets.
- VRML
gallery of chiral Nano-Tubes
- Proceedings of
the Second Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference
- This is an online version of the official Proceeding of the Second
Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference which was held on the Internet
in November 1996. The Proceedings are published in the Journal of Molecular
Structure (THEOCHEM), 1996, volume 368 and reproduced online for
free. The online version includes materials not contained in the printed
version, such as color graphics, video, VRML, and hypermolecules.
- Computational
Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark DataBase
- The NIST Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark Database is a
collection of experimental and ab initio thermochemical properties for a
selected set of molecules.
- Chemscape Chime
- A Netscape Navigator Plug-in module that allows the user to view
and manipulate chemical strcutures within an HTML page. Developed by MDL
- KR ScienceBase
- A html front-end to the Dialog system. You must register to actually view
the hits, but you can get the idea of the utility and design of the system
without paying anything.
- Daylight
Chemical Information System
- A very nice html and cgi front-end to the Daylight chemical databases.
Free access to a limited subset of the Daylight systems are available.
- 2D-Plots of
chemical structures on demand
- A form based entry system to obtain a GIF or PNG image of a chemical
structure. Very nice. Designed by Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt
- Publishing Chemistry on the
Internet
- A description of how chemistry publications may evolve in the future,
making use of Chime, VRML, and MIME. Published in the e-journal NetSci.
- Chemical Patents
Plus
- Chemical Patents available from CAS - with a twist, structures are
available via a Java Applet.
- Best of the Web
- Chemistry - 1996
- Our annual compilation of the best web sites in chemistry, as presented at
the ACS Computers in
Chemistry Division's electronic poster
session at the Fall 1996 National ACS meeting
- WebLab Viewer
- MSI's molecular viewer avilable for free for Mac and Windows
- Oxford's Virtual Reality
Group
- An peak at the virtual future - virtual laboratories, VRML applications,
etc. Be prepared - you'll need Netscape 3.o or Internet Explorer 3.0,
QuickTime VR, Shockwave, and a VRML viewer.
Educational and Fun Chemistry
- What Ever
Happened to that Chemistry Link?
- A list of once popular chemistry web sites that are now missing in action.
We note that our own site makes the list, thanks to the relocation of
the server to Trinity University. Just points out some of the problems in
trying to maintain a service even though sites may move!
- The Periodic Table of Poetry
- Chemistry and poetry together as never before.Curious?
- Chemicool
- An impressive amount of information on the periodic table and elements.
- Chemsoc
Careers
- It is the right place to be for job advertisements and careers advice
- Science Hypermedia
- Educational software for general chemistry, analytical chemistry,
instrumental analysis, optics, and electronics.
- The World of Materials
- Designed and maintained by Massachusetts Institude of Technology
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, it is a simple but useful
site about the classes of materials.
- Bad
Chemistry
- This site brings to light commonly mistaught concepts in the field of
chemistry.
- ChemCenter
- A service of the American Chemical Society
- ChemConnect
- This is an online chemical trading exchange where commercial chemical
buyers and sellers expand their businesses. A useful site for educators and
private companies.
Chemistry Databases and Related Information
- Online Patents
- Delphion Intellectual Property
Network - Formerly the IBM Patenet Server
- European
Patent Office
- US Patent and Trademark
Office
- CLogP predictions/databases on the web
- Interactive
LogKow (KowWin) Demo
- ClogP of
selected drugs
- ClogP and experimental
logPs from Daylight
- CompuDrug Predictions
(restricted to only 20)
- CDER New and Generic
Drug Approvals-1998-2000
- FOI Services
- These two sites offer access to information on FDA Drug Approval Records
- Chemistry Journal
Titles and Abbreviations
- PowBase
- Searchable database of x-ray powder patterns
- ChemIDplus
- A database of 350,000 chemical records, including 56,000 with structures.
Provides synonyms and registry numbers
- Fullerene Database
- A database, maintained at the University of Arizona, of references in the
ever-growing Fullerene literature. To access this database, after initiating the telnet session, login
as sabio; then select other databases and remote libraries followed
by a selection of Buckballs database
- Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP
Express)
- The JCPExpress is a free trial service for electronic distribution of
preprints of manuscripts between acceptance and publication in the Journal of
Chemical Physics.
- Chemical Education Resource
Shelf
- This archive, based at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, contains a
comprehensive list of chemistry textbooks in print and links to publishers.
This service was formerly called "Chemistry Textbooks in Print".
- Periodic
Table of the Elements
- The name says it all
- Protein Database
- A protein database maintained at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Chemistry on
the Internet from InterNIC
- A listing of chemical resources on the internet including such things as
journals, FTP sites, Mailing lists, and commercial vendors.
- Chemists
Address/Phone Book
- An online user-supplied database of addresses etc for chemists.
Information on how to submit your name to this index is available.
- On-Line Academic
Chemistry Employment Clearinghouse
- Job ads for chemists in academe. Information on the operation of this
service is available.
- US
Chemistry Graduate Programs
- an alphabetic listing of Graduate programs in the us. Also available by state.
- Gaussian Basis
Set Order Form
- A form-based database search provides Contracted Gaussian basis sets for
ab initio calculations
- ChemInform
- Search a six-month subset of the ChemInform database for free as a demo of
the full product available on CDROM
- CHMINF-L Archives
- Hypermial Archive of the popular CHMINF-L (chemical information) List
- Thermodynamic
data and property calculation sites
- International Union of Pure and
Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
- A number of IUPAC's nomenclature references and glossaries are available
in full hypertext.
- 2D
and 3D Structural Information
- Collections from NCI of 2D and 3D structural information on almost half a
million compounds.
- Chirbase
- Database of chiral compounds
- Crystallography Source Code
Museum
- An interesting collection of old source codes for crystallography!
- Combichem.net
- A launching point for combinatorial chemistry on the net
Electronic Journals
Chemistry World-Wide Web Sites
General Interest Sites
- Chemical Physics Preprint
Database
- This database is a joint effort by the Department of Chemistry at Brown
University and the Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics Group at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is intended to provide a means for rapid
and efficient preprint distribution within the international chemical physics
community. It has been made possible by funding from the Camille and Henry
Dreyfus Foundation.
- Computational Chemistry
List
- The home page for the computational chemistry list. It includes pointers
to the list archives which can be searched.
- XMol Information
- Online user's guide to XMol, which is program for displaying 3D molecular
models on an X11 display server.
- SCARECROW
Information
- A Description of the program SCARECROW which allows for the graphical
display and analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories.
- MIME Types for
Chemistry
- A proposal for defining a MIME type for chemistry, to allow for the
transfer of molecule definitions, geometries, properties, etc. The orginal Chemistry Mime Proposal
is also available.
- American Chemical Society
- The ACS finally has hit the WWW; the site contains membership and division
information. Also a schedule of meetings and deadlines.
- NIH Molecular Modeling Home
Page
- Provides a centralized source of information to the NIH research community
concerning all facets of molecular modeling. This includes "Molecules 'R' Us",
a very nice forms-based interface to the Protein Data Bank.
- Theoretical
Chemistry Postdoctoral Clearinghouse
- A postdoctoral clearinghouse run by the Theoretical Section of the
Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.
- World Association of Theoretical Organic
Chemists (WATOC)
- A home page for WATOC includes information on past and future conferences
- Scientific Visualization and
Graphics
- Not specifically geared towards chemists, this page is a compiliation of
scientific visualization information
- Demonstration of ACS Abstract
submission
- A real eye-opening experience of how abstract submission to ACS meetings
(and any other meeting) should be handled. You will need a viewer that can
handle forms, like Mosaic 2.4.
- Hyperactive
Molecules and the World-Wide Web
- This paper, to be published in J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans 2,
discusses the principle of hyperactive molecules.
- The Wilson Group
- An experimental server displaying the recent happenings and reserach
interests of Professor Kent Wilson and his research group at the University of
California, San Diego. This is an excellent example of how the web can be used
to provide up-to-date information on a research group.
- Definition of the CXF
standard
- An html version of the definitions of the recently proposed standard for
molecular definition files.
- Journal
of Molecular Modeling
- The home page of the first electronic chemistry journal dedicated to rapid
publication in the area of molecular and materials modeling.
- UTMB NMR Center
- A nice front end page to a variety of NMR information on the web.
- International Society for
Heterocyclic Chemistry
- Contains information on the society. Also has the home page for The Royal
Society of Chemistry Perkin Division Heterocyclic Group.
- AMBER Home
Page
- Information on the AMBER molecular modeling program. Includes a detailed
description of the algorithm and methods incorporated in AMBER, bug
fixes, support, news groups, the license, and how to obtain the code.
- GAMESS Home
Page
- Information on the GAMESS ab initio program, including a PowerMac
version. The license and information on how to obtain the code are provided.
- EMSL
Ab Initio Benchmark Report
- A comprehensive review of ab initio code performance on a variety of
hardware platforms - sort of the Consumers' Report Guide to Ab Initio
Codes.
- Amazing Science at the Roxy
- A collection of text, graphics and videos relating to chemistry and
physics demos, particularly for the younger, future chemist crowd. Some nice
HTML work, also.
- Medchem/Biobyte WWW Server
- A very interesting web site, based on a collaboration between Pomona
College, Biobyte, Daylight Information, and the Medicinal Chemistry Project.
This site contains, among many useful resources, a hypermail/glimpse index to
the Computational chemistry List archives, a searchable chemical names
archive, and email access to some of Daylight's commercial products (for
free) .
- Journal of Biological
Chemistry
- An online version of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, including
full-text and a search facility.
- AMSOL homepage
- Technical description of the AMSOL program, release notes, and
information on how to obtain the code
- MORATE and
POLYRATE
- Technical description of the MORATE and POLYRATE programs,
release notes, and information on how to obtain the codes
- Chemistry
Education resources
- A compilation of chemical education resources on the Internet
- The Electochemical
Society
- Information on the operations and activities of the Society, including
their conference schedule. Of interest is their initiatives towards electronic
abstract submissions.
- North American Catalysis Society
- Theory of
Atoms in Molecules
- A nice example of using the web as an educational tool - here is a brief
overview of Bader's topological electron denisty method, prepared by Bader
himself. More work like this on the web would bring about an outstanding
reference series!
- Chemistry Today
- A chemistry resource containing news features, job listings, and meetings
- Chemsite
- A borad listing of industrial services, jobs listings, and product guides
- Dreyfus Foundation
- The web site of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation describing the
awards and grants programs
- Chemical Heritage Foundation
- The history of chemistry and chemical engineering: announcements of new
publications on the history of chemistry, abstracts of oral histories in the
Othmer Library of Chemical History, etc. Note also under the Othmer Library
that research questions on chemical history can be sent to the Research
Historian at the Othmer Library.
- North American
Chapter of the International Chemometrics Society
- Nomenclature of
Organic Chemistry
- This is the HTML reproduction of Sections A, B and C of IUPAC "Blue Book"
[see Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, Sections A, B, C, D, E, F, and
H, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1979. Copyright IUPAC.] Hosted by Advanced Chenistry Development, Inc.
- Chem-4-Kids
- An introduction to chemistry for young children
Online Chemical Sources
- Buyer's Guide Chem
- ChemACX
Net
- ChemConnect
- CHEMCYCLOPEDIA Online
- Chemdex
- CHEMEXPER
- ChemEXPO
- chemical online
- Chem
Sources-Online
- e-Chemicals
- Fisher Scientific
- International
Chemical Register
- Japan Chemical Search
- PMG On The Net
- Sigma-Aldrich
- The Sourcere
Chemistry Directory
- WWW Chemicals Network
Commercial Sites
- ACD/Labs
- Software for NMR, LogP, and boiling Point prediction with online trials.
Also an online copy of the Nomencalture of Organic Chemistry
- ACS Publications
- Information on all ACS Publications, including books and journals.
Includes instructions to authors for submitting articles and supplementary material for
some journals.
- Advanced Visual Systems
- Information on AVS products, which are used for scientific visualization.
- AtomWorld
- molecular model construction kits
- Baltzer Science Publishers
- Beckman Instruments
- Beilstein Information Systems
- CAS WWW Server
- An online source of information about the Chemical Abstracts Service
(CAS). Current STN users can access the databases though a link on the Product and Services Page.
- Cambridge
International Science Publishing
- CambridgeSoft
- Check out the ChemFinder
resource, a chemical search of the web!
- Bedoukian Research Inc.
- Catalytica
- Chapman and Hall
-
- Chemical Concepts
- Chemical Sources
- ChemInnovation Software
- ChemKey Database
- ChemTech Publishing
- Dialog Information Services, Inc.
- An online source of information on Dialog products, including a searchable
list of databases, publications, and an FAQ.
- Dow Chemical Company
- Description of the company and some of their educational outreach programs
- Eastman Chemical Company
- EduChem
- Elsevier Sciences
- FDM
- Fisher Scientific
- The Fischer Catalog of Analytical and Biotech reagents is online,
including prices, specifications, and MSDS.
- Hitachi Instruments
- Hoechst AG
- Hypercube, Inc.
- Includes product description, demo software, and FAQ
- Indigo Instruments (molecular models,
chemistry clipart)
- Karl Kurt Juchheim
Laborgeräte GmbH
- Eli Lilly and Company
- MDL Information Systems
- Currently contains the free version of ISI/DRAW
- Mettler-Toledo Inc.
- Currently offers a nice page on Thermal Nanlysis, including product
descriptions and a forum on Thermal analysis, which is a unique and herlp
- Millipore Corportation
- Molecular Simluations
- MultiSimplex
- Monsanto
- Nalco Chemical Company
- Pharm-Eco Laboratories
- Phoenix Polymers, Inc.
- Includes an excellent list of pointers to polymer resources on the
Internet.
- Questel/Orbit
- Description of the databases provided by Questel/Orbit. Registered users
can access the databases through a link on this page.
- Rohm and Haas Company
- Sargent-Welch
- Schrödinger, Inc.
- Sigma-Aldrich
- Include an online version of Aldrichimica
Acta
- Softshell
- Tripos
- Viking Instruments
- Ullmann's
Encyclopedia
- UniChem
- Wavefunction, Inc.
- Wiley-VCH
University Web Sites
- Department of Chemistry, University
of Alabama at Birmingham
- University of
Alaska Fairbanks
- Department of Chemistry, University
of Alberta
- Department of
Chemistry, Free University of Berlin
- Department of Chemistry,
Bishop's University
- Chemsitry Department, Brigham Young
University
- Chemistry Department at
Brown University
- CAOS/CAMM Center, The Netherlands
- Department of Chemistry, Case Western
Reserve University
- College of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley
- Chemistry Department, University of
California, Davis
- Chemistry Department, University of
California, Irvine
- Department of
Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
- Department of Pharmaceutical
Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco
- Institute of Chemistry at the
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
- Chemistry Department, University
College (UNSW) in Canberra
- Center for Scientific
Computing
- University of Cincinnati
- Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University
- Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie
University
- Department of Chemistry, Duke
University
- Durham
Chemistry Department
- Department
of Chemistry, East Carolina University
- Department of Chemistry, ETH
- Department of Chemistry, Imperial
College
- Department of Chemistry, Harvard
University
- Department of Chemistry,
Indiana University at Bloomington
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis
- Laboratorium
for Organic Synthesis Hoornaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Department of Chemistry, University of
Kentucky
- School of Chemistry, Leeds
University
- Department of Chemistry, Leiden
University, Netherlands
- University of Liverpool,
Department of Chemistry
- CTI Centre for Chemistry
(based in the University of Liverpool Chemistry Department)
- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana
State University
- Department of Crystallography,
Birkbeck College, Univeristy of London
- Department of
Chemistry, University of Memphis
- Michigan Molecular Institute
- Department of Chemistry, University of
Minnesota
- Department of Chemistry,
University of Mississippi
- Chemistry Department, State University
of New York, Stony Brook
- Department of Chemistry, Ohio
University
- Department of Environmental Science and
Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute
- Department of
Chemistry, University of Oregon
- Department of Chemistry, University
of Reading
- Department of
Chemistry, Rensselaer University
- Department of Chemistry,
University of Rhode Island
- Department of Chemistry,
University of Rochester
- University
of Sheffield
- Department of Chemistry,
University of South Florida
- Department of
Chemistry, University of Toronto
- Department of Chemistry, Tulane
University
- Department of Chemistry, Utah State
University
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry
at the Vienna University of Technology
- Department of Chemistry, Virginia
Tech
- Department of Chemistry, Washington
University
- Department of
Chemistry, University of the West Indies
- Department of Chemistry, West
Virginia University
Government Web Sites
- Ames Laboratory, Materials
Chemistry Program
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
Chemistry Department
Other Lists of Chemistry Resources on the Internet
- Cheminfo - Indiana
University
- Gary Wiggins has compiled a large list of chemical information resources
on the net
- Links for
Chemists
- Very large collection of relevant chemistry links includes a comprehensive
list of UK Universities
- ChemDex
- Chemistry
collection
- Compiled by Dana Roth
- Rolf Claessen's Chemistry
Index
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