Interactive chemical structure editor

Design and Development of an Interactive Chemical Structure Editor... 

McDaniel, J.R. Fein, A.E. Design and Development of an Interactive Chemical Structure Editor . In Graphics for Chemical Structures Integration with Text and Data Warr, W.A. Ed. ACS Symposium Series 341 American Chemical Society Washington, 1987 pp. 62-79. 

Molecule editors represent only two-dimensional chemical structures (thus also could be considered as 2D viewers), the third dimension is visualized by 3D viewers, mainly user-interactive. 

Chemical Edit allows drawing and editing of molecular structures for input to a form or database. Drawing may be free-hand or by use of templates provided by the program. Operation of this mode may be controlled through an interactive menu, through a command-driven molecule editor that may be used as an interactive mode, or from within an automated sequence. 

The wake-up call for this enormous renewable resource has gone through Scandinavia and Europe to North America. The editors organized a l International Symposium on Xylans, Mannans and Other Hemicelluloses as a Symposium of the American Chemical Society Division of Cellulose and Renewable Material in Orlando, Florida in April 2001. The meeting was very successful and resulted in fiiiitful interaction between scientists and resulted in this book, which covers topics dealing with the isolation processes of the hemicelluloses and the characterization of their structure. The development of new analytical tools for determining the molecular architecture of hemicelluloses is described. The assembly characteristics and the interactions of hemicelluloses with cellulose are recurrent themes in this book, and the enzymatic and chemical modifications of hemicelluloses along with new applications for materials based on hemicelluloses are also covered. We hope that this book will play an important role in the process of utilization of hemicelluloses. 

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