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
Rainer Rillke, 08/07/2014 14:13:
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]
Great! Have you already contacted the Wikipedia WikiProjects and Wikibooks shelves (or whatever the name) for chemistry? It's much easier when users have something they can "touch". On wikis without such a coordination page you could even try and send a message to the most active article creators of the chemical category tree as found by catscan or whatever.
Nemo
On 08/07/2014 13:13, Rainer Rillke wrote:
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
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Took me a while to work out how to upload a mol file made with AccelrysDraw4.1 - worked OK, don't like the way it then handled the terminal methyl - either add the H3 or leave off the C - but a very good start! http://mol.wmflabs.org/index.php/File:3,4-%28Methylenedioxyphenyl%29-1-propa...
Ron.
In reply to Ron:
Took me a while to work out how to upload a mol file made with AccelrysDraw4.1
There are 2 ways creating a molfile: * Save the file to your disk and go to http://mol.wmflabs.org/index.php/Special:Upload * Copy the the molecule as MDL molfile to your clipboard (some programs such as Marvin allow this), go to http://mol.wmflabs.org/index.php/MOL:Create - press the button - click the "open file" icon - paste the molfile contents - name the file - save
In reply to Nemo:
Great! Have you already contacted the Wikipedia WikiProjects
Superb idea. I am on it.
-- Rillke