Some Specific Enabling Accomplishments

Structure. The availability of quantum chemical codes has made it possible to solve, with high accuracy and precision, many problems associated with the ground state for organic molecules. This has been used extensively to solve problems spanning the range from molecules in outer space to drug design. 

Abstracts Online, and the structnral libraries developed at Cambridge, Brookhaven,4 and Kyoto are examples of using information technology combined with chemical data to facilitate research and understanding at all levels. 

Examples such as the preceding demonstrate that the remarkable IT advances we have seen—in speed, data storage, and communication bandwidth—have been facilitated in no small way by contributions from the chemical sciences. A recent article by Theis and Horn, of IBM, discusses basic research in the information technology industry and describes the ongoing—indeed growing—importance of nanoscale chemisffy in the IT community.  

Finding Advances in the chemical sciences are enablers for the development of information technology. 

Breakthroughs from molecular assembly to interface morphology to process control are at the heart of next-generation IT hardware capabilities. These advances impact computer speed, data storage, network bandwidth, and distributed sensors, among many others. In turn, effective deployment of IT advances within the chemical enterprise will speed discovery of yet more powerful IT engines. 

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In addition to serving as the major food source to heterotrophic bacteria, DOM plays an important ecological role in enabling marine organisms to control various aspects of their environment including trophic interrelationships. This is accomplished by the secretion or exudation of specific molecules, called secondary metabolites. These are generally LMW compounds that tend to be species specific in their source and targets. Some act as toxins that repel or kill competitors or predators. As noted earlier, some diatoms... 

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