I am at the ACS meeting, attending a session on chemistry and the Internet. This post was inspired by Chemicalize, a service offered by ChemAxon, which scans a post like this one, and identifies molecules named. I had previously used generic post taggers, which frankly did not work well in identifying chemical content. So this is by way of an experiment. I list below some of the substances about which I have blogged, to see how the chemicalizer works.
That should suffice to see how such a list can be chemicalized.
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Some of the molecules are underlined but the links do not work (at least for me!). I thought structures would also automatically appear.
Same here. I'm also now seeing two photographs of Henry, whom may be chemicalized too?
I see the same thing, some underlining but no working links. It certainly looks like an interesting service one the technical issues are solved.
I seem to be having a bit more success then the earlier responders. I get underlinings for copper phthalocyanine, trisulfide, diberyllium, 1,3-dimethylcyclobutadiene, cyclohexane, cyclohexene, cyclohexadiene, benzene and "dicarbon on", and I get pop-up ChemDraw style views of copper phthalocyanine, 1,3-dimethylcyclobutadiene, cyclohexane, cyclohexene and benzene. The others give a pop-up window with a question mark. Clicking on the ChemDraw style drawing for those that work does indeed link to a page on the chemicalize.org website about that structure. (No mention of any crystal structure, though.)
The reason why the chemicalization of my blog did not produce the desired effect has now been diagnosed (thanks Andras!). I had earlier activated ChemDoodle, and both chemicalize and ChemDoodle make use of a function called jQuery, but reasons unclear to me, they do not co-exist. The developers of chemicalize and ChemDoodle are now pondering how to achieve this. I hope it can be fixed fairly soon, but at least the mystery is now resolved.
One solution to the issue of running both Chemicalize and ChemDoodle was achieved by mangling the header of the Wordpress theme used for the blog, by inserting the code
<?php wp_enqueue_script("jquery"); ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
Thanks to ChemAxon, I have upgraded to V 1.07 of the Chemicalize plugin, and its all working now. Thanks Andras.