The Chemical MIME Glossary
Here are some brief desriptions about Chemical MIME types and their uses.
The thing to remember is that this is all new and nobody has finished making the rules yet. All this information is subject to change (and most of it is my opionion).
Once Again the most common types are listed first
- JDX
- chemical/x-jcamp-dx -- This is a standard format for the exchange of spectra in computer readable form. J-Camp-DX can be used to view IR, NMR, Mass, and UV/Vis spectra.
- KIN
- chemical/x-kinemage -- Kinemages or "kinetic images" were developed to be distributed with Protein Science Journal. They allow the authors of the images to communicate ideas based on three dimensional information. Different views can b
e used to emphasize points.
- MOL
- chemical/x-mdl-molfile -- originally developed as a format for Xmol
- PDB
- chemical/x-pdb -- It started as the Protein Databank format and grew from there. It is currently the preferred format because viewers are available for all platforms.
- RXN
- chemical/x-mdl-rxn -- These are used to show simple reactions. They are 2-D representations.
- TGF
- chemical/x-mdl-tgf -- "tgf" format is a published standard developed by MDL Information systems which can be used to illustrate complex chemical reaction schemes, and further to define search queries for use with the
ISIS/Base program.
- XYZ
- chemical/x-xyz -- it's actually similiar to pdb but the people who wrote Xmol decided to do it this way.
To be honest, I know very little about the following types -- they're mainly related to complex molecular modeling that I havn't any idea about.
As I learn the list will be fleshed out.
- CSML
- chemical/x-csml -- Chemical Structure Mark-up Language. This is used to "mark-up" a chemical structure diagram. More information on this can be found in the articles about hyperactive molecules.
- GAL
- chemical/x-gaussian-log --- see below.
- GAU
- chemical/x-gaussian --- A quantum chemistry calculation program.
- MMD
- chemical/x-macromodel -- Macromodel is program for modeling organic and bioorganic molecules using molecular mechanics.
- MOO
- chemical/x-mopac-out -- molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry? See below.
- MVB
- chemical/x-mopac-vib -- molecular dynamics and quantum
chemistry? See above.
- SDF
- chemical/x-mdl-sdf
As you can see there are some blank spots on this list. If you could help fill in the details or provide any corrections, I would appreciate it.
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