From chemistry-request(+ at +)server.ccl.net Thu Feb 10 19:19:08 2000 Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA25162 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:19:08 -0500 Received: from balzac.CERCA.UMontreal.CA (balzac.CERCA.UMontreal.CA [132.204.150.21]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09043 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:11:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from pellan.CERCA.UMontreal.CA (pellan.CERCA.UMontreal.CA [132.204.150.49]) by balzac.CERCA.UMontreal.CA (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26906 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:11:28 -0500 (EST) From: Suzanne Sirois Received: (from siroiss ^%at%^ localhost) by pellan.CERCA.UMontreal.CA (980427.SGI.8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29897 for chemistry /at\ccl.net; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:11:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002102311.SAA29897 |-at-| pellan.CERCA.UMontreal.CA> Subject: RE:Anybody agrees with me To: chemistry #at# ccl.net Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:11:27 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Although Arthur comments on Macromodel were personal, I do agree with the needs of standards. 1) Genomics and proteomics are fields that are developing at a very rapid speed. Soon we won`t not only use babel to convert file formats but we will also be in a Babel`s tower. In my opinion there is two life sciences area of applications that currently need standards: 1) GUI 2) Methods This sounds to me like classes in OOP. 1) Hence we can focus on developing standard classes for GUI that will inherit all the properties needed for a particular application. This will leave room to every developer to adapt its GUI to its own program. 2) About methods such as force fields, we can for example develop a class call force fields that will implements all the basic information that make up a FF. This will leave to the developers the opportunity to expand its method while inheriting basic components. 3) And so on. 4) Lets recall there is a language named CML that is currently under development for WEB application. How does it fit the needs for standards? Best regards to all Suzanne Sirois, Ph.D. Computational Chemist ChemInformaticien