On Mar 12, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Greg Landrum wrote:
The thing I don't know how to do, and that I suspect would be
considerably
more effort, but that would also be very cool, would be to add
chemistry functionality to Excel (like what chemfinder for Excel
does).
It's possible. I did a prototype like that for a client, but it
didn't go anywhere. In my case it was the ability to have a column of
SMILES, write the headers of the descriptors you wanted, and the add-
in would go to a XML-RPC server to fill in the missing values. The
code used Twisted and wxPython to do the networking and GUI
components in Excel.
The key resource for how I did it is the SpamBayes add-in for
Outlook, at
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
This is an Outlook extension, but the API for how to do add-ins
(extensions) to Outlook was similar to that for Excel.
I would be interested in working on it further except 1) I wasn't
convinced that it would be profitable for me and 2) I don't have the
right background to know what's useful, so I would need to
collaborate with an actual end-user so the result is actually usable
and enjoyable.
Umm, hint, hint, nudge, nudge in case someone here is looking to pay
someone like me? :)
Otherwise, that SpamBayes reference is at least an initial pointer.
Use the information you find there along with some Google searches
and you should find what you need.
Andrew
[email protected]
