From chemistry-request-: at :-server.ccl.net Thu Apr 18 12:40:20 2002 Received: from thing2.dev.netgenics.com ([63.69.121.199]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g3IGeKj15221 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:40:20 -0400 Received: from netgenics.com (coronado-15.dev.netgenics.com [192.168.150.215]) by thing2.dev.netgenics.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g3IGdxg26550; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:40:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CBEF6DA.82A4E270 %-% at %-% netgenics.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:39:54 -0700 From: Scott Markel Organization: LION bioscience Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CHEMISTRY- at -ccl.net CC: "Rzepa, Henry" Subject: Re: CCL:Sourceforge, Chemistry, XML and CML References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CCL readers may also be interested in the OpenScience Project, which lists 89 efforts in chemistry. The next most populated category is mathematics with 56. Life sciences has 35. For more information see http://www.openscience.org. Scott "Rzepa, Henry" wrote: > > This is sort of a general purpose post with several observations and some > information to post > > 1. Many of you know about http://www.sourceforge.net (but if you don't, you > should). It supports around 37,000 OpenSource projects. > > 2. It was a small surprise to me to find relatively few references on the > CCS pages to it (about 30, going back two years). > > 3. Given this, it was perhaps no surprise to find they have no subject category > such as "chemistry" or "molecular science" at sourceforege. > Bio-informatics certainly has! > Remember, we are the community that started this with the QCPE archive > in the early 1960s! Whatever happened? > > 4. Well, it will hardly come as a surprise to see me posting: > http://cml.sourceforge.net/ > > Its still early days , but this site will contain much to do with > XML, such as XML libraries, including XSD (schemas), > XSLT (filters and transformations) > and various Java-based tools, mostly relating to CML (Chemical markup language) > Its software, "but not as you may know it". > > If you wish to learn, ask FAQs, or make contributions, do please consider > joining the mailing list linked to the site. > > 5. An of course we join a select community of other chemistry projects > homed there. A short list of these exists on our site, but no doubt it > will grow (and apologies to anyone who is not there yet, let me know and > you will be!) > -- > > Henry Rzepa. > +44 (0870) 132 3747 (eFax) +44 0778 6268 220 (Mobile) > http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. -- Scott Markel, Ph.D. LION bioscience Inc. scott.markel \\at// lionbioscience.com 4350 Executive Drive Tel: 858 455 5223 Suite 260 FAX: 858 455 1388 San Diego, CA 92121