On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Christoph Steinbeck wrote:
> >>We are using as prototypes the models developed by Merkle and Drexler > >>that are posted as PDB files at IMM.org. > > *This* is really amazing! :-) Before you get *too* excited, you should understand that the nanoparts Merkle and Drexler designed are *very* advanced. But it was the shortage of such "parts/machines" combined with the demonstration by the DEMO group at Brandeis that a computer could do "stand-alone" design of something useful that motivated me to write the [EMAIL PROTECTED] proposal [1]. It is envisioned that the M&D nanoparts will be used to test things like the display routines, computer-aided molecular design, the communications of the designs to and from servers, design parameters, etc. For additional information see: http://www.nanoathome.org/ Please note that this is still in the very *early* stages of starting up. But we are happy to get chemists, bioinformaticians, computer scientists, etc. involved. Also please note that the initial parts that we would expect teams to work on would be things as simple as a molecular rivet or a molecular bolt -- not something as complex as a neon pump. Though we certainly hope as experience accumulates people would work on things that complex. Robert 1. http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Proposals/NanoAtHome.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
