Daycgi Worksheet - Daylight CGI applications...SHOW 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
   • Open the url http://server/dayhtml
   • Select a daycgi inteface to one of the listed databases
   • Select New JavaGrins 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