On Saturday 31 January 2004 22:54, timothy driscoll wrote: > > > DADML has support for any syntax for any service... But maybe we > > > should just restrict to one index type... experience has shown that > > > this ok. CAS is for small molecules widely accepted... > > > > Alternatively, we could do: > > > > dadml://nist/cas/50-00-0 > > > > where the syntax is as follows: > > > > PROTOCOL://SERVICE[/INDEXTYPE]/INDEX > > > > where the index type is optional... > > > > think of it as a kind of subdirectory in HTTP or FTP URL's... > > sorry; you lost me. I googled for CAS but nothing helped - can you explain > 'index' in this context please?
CAS is short for CAS rigestry number... it's a simple index used for a very big database of published structures, I think... see: http://www.cas.org/EO/regsys.html It's not ideal (mixtures of stereoisomers can have CAS numbers too), but it works quite well as linking tool between chemical databases... Egon ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
