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 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.

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

     sun1% netscape &
     

   • Open the url http://server/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