From davis ":at:" nod.bms.com Wed Mar 30 12:10:53 1994 Received: from CLIFF.BMS.COM for davis*- at -*nod.bms.com by www.ccl.net (8.6.4/930601.1506) id LAA29551; Wed, 30 Mar 1994 11:56:10 -0500 Received: from nod (nod.bms.com) by cliff.bms.com (PMDF #2529 ) id <01HAKZ3Z5V7K0000BS $#at#$ cliff.bms.com>; Wed, 30 Mar 1994 11:58:03 EST Received: by nod (920330.SGI/920502.SGI) for "-at-" cliff.bms.com:Chemistry "-at-" ccl.net id AA25211; Wed, 30 Mar 94 11:55:51 -0500 Date: 30 Mar 1994 11:55:51 -0500 From: davis[ AT ]nod.bms.com (Malcolm Davis) Subject: Using SGI's IRIS Explorer in Computational Chemistry To: Chemistry-: at :-ccl.net Message-id: <9403301655.AA25211-!at!-nod> X-Envelope-to: Chemistry \\at// ccl.net Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I have been looking at using SGI's IRIS Explorer (IE) for chemistry visualization and would be interested in hearing from anyone else who has looked into IE as a visualization tool. My biggest concern with IE is the standard chemistry data type. It seems to have been added as an afterthought without sufficient consideration to the wide range of uses that computational chemists might have for such a tool. I would like to stimulate a discussion hopefully leading to a new standard data type (whether official or de facto), but I am not sure of the best forum for such a discussion. This mailing list is certainly out of the question for such a narrow interest topic. The newsgroup comp.graphics.explorer would seem most natural and is not flooded with other discussions, but an earlier message of mine there did not elicit a large response. So I am open to suggestions. I look forward to hearing from you if you are interested in the topic. Sincerely, Malcolm Davis P.S. If a discussion does get started somewhere, I will post instructions on how to take part. -- Malcolm E. Davis USMail: Macromolecular Modeling Bristol-Myers Squibb P.O.Box 4000 Princeton, NJ 08543-4000 Email : davis \\at// nod.bms.com Phone : 609-252-4324 FAX : 609-252-6030 Office: LV H.3812