As of now, images of structural formulas have to be created using third
party software and converting the output to SVG or PNG. With MolHandler
we aim for a solution capable accepting and rendering chemical markup
files and providing a web-interface for easily creating, modifying and
re-mixing formula files. This does not only make re-using existing
structures easier and simplifies creation of structures, moreover it
allows Wikis to adopt a unified style for rendering these structures,
makes structures searchable (sub-structure search) allows pulling,
pushing and verifying data from big databases like ChemSpider and
PubChem. In the future we plan to enable support for spectra and more
sophisticated file formats to have at least some minimum support for
chemistry-related Wiki-works.
I am currently looking for features you would find helpful as well as
your opinion of what is needed to deploy MolHandler to Wikimedia Commons
and therefore created a test wiki[1] at which you can create user
accounts. A non-exhaustive list of features is available for raking by
drag&drop. Or just write here what you at least want, what you would
like to see soon and what is less important to you.
-- Rillke
[1]
http://mol.wmflabs.org/