Daycgi Worksheet - Daylight CGI applications--WITH HINTS

Daycgi is comprised of a set of web appications which use the tool set in the $DY_ROOT/daycgi directory. Daycgi is not a toolkit, but rather a set of utilities which enable chemical information delivery via a CGI script. For example, the shell script smi2gif generates a gif depiction from a SMILES string, which enables 2-D chemical structures to be added to web pages. See the class notes for Day 2 for information on writing your own CGI application with Daycgi tools.

1. Lookup compounds and their assoicated data from each of the databases with daycgi interfaces (WDI, Spresi, Medchem).
   • Start netscape

     sun1% netscape &
     

   • Open the url http://sun0.daylight.com/dayhtml

   • Select a daycgi inteface to one of the listed databases

   • Select New Java Grins link

   • Draw in a structure

   • Using the "File" menu of JavaGrins, select Grins to SMILES, then select submit.

2. Lookup a datatree by name and by SMILES using Hyperthor

3. Generate an MCL script with Wizard

4. Generate HTML output from the command line with the MCL script from Step 3.
   • Change the first line to read: Select database "ic97demo%@server"
   • mcl -h -i myprog.mcl

     daylight% mcl -h -i myprog.mcl
     

     Results hits 1 to 1 of 1 in hitlist "hits", database "ic97demo@daylight:thor:norah" hit SMILES similar 1 1