The Chemical MIME Home Page contains links to many sites related to the use and development of Chemical MIME. Topics include guidelines for standards, examples of the use of chemical MIME, and background articles.
"MIME Types for Chemistry" gives an overview of chemical MIME and its application to the Web. It explains the use of chemical MIME and gives some step-by-step instructions.
This page was prepared to show applications of Chemical MIME in action. There are many inline images involved and the authors suggest turning off the auto-downloading of images. (I know from personal experience the connection can be very slow.) It well worth the visit to see all the possibilities.
This document is part of the Second International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web. It explains how the WWW can be used to communicate scientific information.
This page was published in the Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkins Transactions (J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1995, 7). It proposes an Internet based standard based on primary chemical MIME types, gives examples, discusses the Chemical Struc e Mark-up language, and the implications on scientific publishing.
IDS stands for Interactively Displayed molecular Structure, which this site explains is a synonym for HYPERACTIVE MOLECULES. It has a brief history of IDS which is worth taking a looking at. It also has links to other sites using chemcal MIME.
This is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. The purpose of this Internet-Draft is to propose an update to Internet RFC 1521 to include a new pr ry content-type to be known as chemical.
This is the archive of the the Chemical MIME discussion group. It shows the development of the chemical MIME standards and posts update of the progress. A list of mirror sites for the this discussion group can be found at
Several electronic journals and conferences are attempting to make use of
the advantages of chemical MIME and the WWW. They encourage authors or participants to include chemical structure files in their documents. These include:
After you've got your viewing programs downloaded you can see how well they work at the Chemical Object Test Page. Another site with some examples is
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