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PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO
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Survey on the impact of the Computational Chemistry List

THIS IS THE REAL THING, NOT THE TEST ANY MORE.

PLEASE TAKE A SHORT TIME TO READ AND ANSWER!

This is a survey on the use and impact of the Computational 
Chemistry List. Please answer the questions below; a short 
introduction follows.

 
Please respond to CCLSurv@redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx, or if you have a WWW
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The Computational Chemistry List (CCL) has been for many a 
valuable resource and a venue for a diversity of discussions. The list 
has grown steadily in subscriber and recipient numbers, interesting 
and sometimes heated debates have taken place, and consideration 
has been given recently to previously unexplored issues like the 
perspectives for fully electronic publications and similar ones.

It may be time to ask ourselves what actual impact the CCL has had, 
is having, and can further have on our lives, our work, the way we 
use bandwidth, and the like.

To that purpose I have proposed to undertake a survey of the List 
users with the general goal of finding out facts and opinions about 
electronic services and their impact on our work. I have asked the 
List coordinator, Jan Labanowski, if this is a valid use of CCL 
bandwidth and we have agreed to ask a few more questions, relevant 
to the List's operation and its possible improvement, in order not to 
bother you with TWO surveys. In this respect, the added goals are 
to find if the List is useful as is, what and for whom is most and least 
useful, what should be scratched, and how some possible 
improvements might work out.

My own interest in the results of this survey is more on the side of 
understanding its workings and their meaning as underpinning for 
the future of academic communication. The results of the survey will 
be carefully analyzed, which may take some time, and I intend to 
publish the results of the analysis (foreseeably in an ACS 
monograph) as well as post them and make them available for 
downloading.

Some aspects of the survey may be flawed from the beginning, 
mainly as we will not (foreseeably) get response from people who 
have not subscribed or have dropped out, for any of a number of 
reasons. However, much can be learned from your answers! It is 
important that everybody respond to make the survey statistically 
sound and not biased by "aggressive minority opinion". Please let us 
know better just how the CCL is working, if and how much it has 
changed the way you work, communicate, and teach, and understand 
what is to be done next.

I beg you to answer the questions below as objectively as possible. I 
will make my best efforts to keep the responses confidential (I plan 
to share them with Jan WITHOUT RESPONDENT NAMES AND 
ADDRESSES; if you wish otherwise and say so in your answer 
message I will oblige). I will understand that you speak for your 
persons and not for your organizations unless the contrary is 
explicitly stated. All answers are nonbinding. Now look: the list is 
international, legal issues may get real tangled, so let us all assume 
that I will keep faithfully to my best knowledge of ethical and legal 
standards and we all try to get information that will benefit 
everybody, OK?

If you are impeded to respond to any of the questions because of 
considerations of liability etc. do tell me so!

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Alejandro Pisanty  -    CCLSurv@redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx
.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Dr. Alejandro Pisanty, Secretary of the Advisory Council on 
Computing, UNAM, and Head of the Graduate Division, Faculty of 
Chemistry, UNAM
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico DF
MEXICO

Tel. (+52-5) 622 4181, 616 1649; Fax 550 0904, 616 2010
.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

Survey on the use of the Computational Chemistry List (CCL).

Please answer with your best estimates!

In the pilot run of the survey a "closed form" for answers was 
suggested. I have preferred to retain the open form because of the 
WIDE variety of answers possible from all over the world.

The survey cannot be made too short because much valuable 
contents would be lost. If you find that you do not have time enough 
to answer all the questions, please concentrate on sections I (user 
characterization), II and III (impact), VI and VII. Section IX 
provides detailed suggestions for improvement on the list in order to 
open a discussion on that subject.

I. USER CHARACTERIZATION:

This part is intended to characterize the respondent. It is important 
to know ourselves better as a group, and so we can crossreference 
other responses against particular groups of subscribers.

 I.1) How long have you been using CCL (few months, a year, more 
than a year)?
Mark X on this line ...................................

 I.2) What is the character of your organization (e.g., for-
profit/commercial, academia, secondary shool, government, military, 
other non-profit, self-employed consultant, etc.)?

 I.3) Country where you receive the CCL messages (particularly if 
through LISTSERV and similar, which may be different from the 
subscription address):

 I.4) Type of position (e.g, undergraduate student, graduate student, 
postdoctoral associate, assistant professor, full professor, lecturer, 
reader, research scientist, senior research scientist, management, 
sales associate, consultant, etc.):

 I.5) Approximate number of employees in your entire organization 
and its main line of activity (e.g. 2000/college, 1000/pharmaceutical, 
20000/petroleum, etc.):

 I.6) Your field(s) of activity (please be specific: e.g, 
crystallographer, molecular biologist, quantum chemist, medicinal 
chemist, etc.):

 I.7) Is your work mainly theoretical, computational or 
experimental? 
Do you develop software?

 I.8) What computational chemistry methods do you use frequently 
(ab initio, molecular graphics, molecular mechanics, kinetics 
simulation, etc.)? 
What other computational work do you do frequently?:

 I.9) What computer(s) do you use to read the messages, and how 
are you connected to the network (e.g. PC via 2400 modem, Mac 
via 9600 modem, RS/6000 on Ethernet, etc.).
What is the range of network access available to you (e.g., e-mail 
only, ftp, remote logins, gopher, WWW, Usenet, etc.). 

 I.10) What computer(s) and software do you mostly use for your 
work?

 I.11) How did you learn about the list (e.g., from a friend, my thesis 
advisor, a student I supervise, from archie, by searching 
gopherspace, etc.)

 I.12) Could you briefly describe your work (say 5-10 lines):


II. CCL IMPACT ON YOUR RESEARCH/LEARNING/CAREER:


Please be as specific as you can be in answering these questions.
The answers will be used to judge if the list is a useful resource and 
to assess the way media like CCL are changing our ways.

 II.1) Please tell how, and how many times, the messages on CCL, 
answers to your CCL queries, or CCL archives helped you in your 
research.

Anecdotes and specific examples are most welcome!
 List all instances you can remember (e.g., you acquired particular 
software based on CCL messages twice, you selected computer 
hardware based on information from CCL, on three occassions you 
received needed parameters/data, five times you were directed to 
read particular paper based on CCL information, you changed your 
approach/method once based on CCL messages, comments on the 
CCL contributed to the discussion part in two of your 
papers/reports, etc.):
       
 II.2) How many times did you find about a conference via CCL and 
attended it as a result?

 II.3) Have you started a collaboration with a subscriber of the list as 
a result of exchanges on the CCL?

 II.4) Did you find a position or a candidate for the position using 
the positions.offered file in CCL archive?
 Did you seek a position in particular organization/group based on 
messages posted to the list?

 II.5) Add any comments about benefits and impacts of the list in 
your career:


III. IMPACT ON TEACHING:

Answer these questions if you are teaching or if you are involved in 
intracompany training. Please be specific and add as many comments 
as you wish.

 III.1) What subject/course do you teach, is it an 
undergraduate/graduate/professional course?

 III.2) Has the list had any impact on the contents of your courses?
 (e.g., you used materials/examples/opinions from messages or CCL 
archives in your course, you revised/created curriculum/syllabus 
based on CCL material, you suggested a graduate project based on 
CCL postings, etc.):

 III.3) Do you encourage your students to subscribe to the list, or 
forward material from the list to them?


IV. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE LIST:

Please supply the best estimates. We understand that they are 
approximate. Stories and examples are most welcome! They are 
becoming the oral history and lore of this trade.

 IV.1) How many questions have you posted to the list?
       How many answers or opinions did you post to the whole list?
       How many answers did you send directly the participants?

 IV.2) How many answers/opinions did you receive to your personal 
mailbox instead of list as a result of your question/opinion?
 Did you ever receive a response with the restriction "for your eyes 
only"?

 IV.3) How many people have reprimanded/flamed you for your 
posting(s) to the list? For what?
 Have you reprimanded/flamed somebody? For what?

 IV.4) What is your estimate of the portion of suitable messages, i.e., 
messages which adhere to the list rules (e.g.: 3/7, 10%)?

 IV.5) What portion of messages on the list do you find relevant for 
your own research/teaching/development/administration?
 Do you forward on occassion messages from CCL to people who 
are not subscribed?
 Did you encourage someone to subscribe?

 IV.6) How do you choose messages to read? What portion of 
messages do you delete/skip before reading based on the Subject: 
field? What portion of messages do you delete/skip after reading the 
first few lines?

 IV.7) How do you receive messages (e.g., you are subscribed to the 
list directly, you are subscribed to a local/internal list/newsgroup 
which receives messages from CCL, you are not subscribed but view 
archived messages via gopher/WWW)?

 IV.8) How frequently do you scan CCL messages and when (e.g., 
as they arrive, more than once a day, once a day in the evening, once 
a week during the weekend)? 
How much time on average do you spend reading messages?

 IV.9) Have you ever searched the CCL archives, and if not why? 
Did you access CCL archives and in what way (e.g., e-mail, ftp, 
gopher/WWW)?


V. USE OF OTHER RESOURCES

Please share all your experiences and use of resources other than 
CCL.

 V.1 What other Internet and network resources do you use and 
how heavily/frequently (e-mail, library catalogues, gopher, WWW, 
newsgroups, commercial databases, stock prices, commercial news, 
listservers/electronic-lists, electronic submissions of manuscripts to 
journals/books/conferences, etc., etc.). How much time do you 
spend on using the network resources?

 V.2 How much time do you spend on reading CCL list and CCL 
archives compared to other network resources?

 V.3 How do you rate the CCL for usefulness, benefit/effort ratio, 
etc. in comparison to other online and offline resources?

VI. MEMORABLE MOMENTS.

VI.1 What do you remember as the most useful/most pleasant/most 
unpleasant/most obnoxious event on the CCL (and/or other Internet 
services)?


VII. OTHER ISSUES.

VII.1 Please comment on the international impact of the list.

VII.2 Please comment on the choice of language of the list, its 
quality, and its level of difficulty. Do you sometimes NOT write 
because of language difficulties?

VII.3 If you are answering you obviously use the list. Can we learn 
something valuable from those who donīt?

 VII.4 Do you think the list, WWW etc. could provide for formal 
scientific/technical publication? (e.g. with formal review procedures 
and stable archives)

  VII.5) How do you see a development of networks/network 
services in the future (say, 10 years)?

VIII. PLEASE ADD WHAT WE MISSED
See also section IX: how would you improve CCL?

VIII.1 What questions/topics should have been included in this 
survey but were missed?
VIII.2 Share any thoughts concerning the CCL list which were not 
addressed in the survey.

IX. HOW WOULD YOU IMPROVE CCL?

Some specific proposals have been made to improve CCL. They are 
listed below. Speak out on your own thoughts; the proposals below 
are intended as discussion openers, not as a bias.

Provide your ideas assuming that resources are not an issue and 
everything is possible. Try to provide ideas, and methods of 
implementation, though you need not be too detailed/technical. 
Please note that some examples given here are very controversial.

 IX.1) How would you improve the list if it stayed unmoderated?
Examples (do not be suggested by them, unless you agree with them 
100%). 
      a) Split it into smaller lists: ccl-ab-initio, ccl-semiempirical, ccl-
force-fields, ccl-molecular-graphics, ccl-???. To which smaller lists 
would you subscribe yourself?
      b) Allow anonymous postings if someone chooses to do so.
      c) Restrict the scope of messages even further than in the rules.
      d) Add specific files to the archives (which?).
      e) Add additional services (which?).
      f) Each subscriber would provide a list of keywords/regular-
expressions and would receive only messages which contain/satisfy 
the keywords/regular-expressions.
      g) Allow only 10 messages a day, and queue the messages which 
are over the limit.

 IX.2) How would you improve the list if it was moderated? Please, 
share your ideas.
      For example (only an example):
       a) 24hrs/day monitoring of the list by anonymous moderators 
residing in different time zones, so the messages are essentially 
approved/rejected in a real time.
       b) provide a once a day digest of subjects and a mechanism for 
retrieval of full messages via e-mail, ftp, gopher, www.
       c) the moderator(s) beside rejecting/approving messages would 
classify them into topics (e.g., quantum chemistry, molecular 
mechanics, molecular graphics, QSAR/QSPR, hardware, drug 
design, [what topics?] and subscribers could choose which topics 
they want to receive. Which topics would you subscribe to?
       d) Provide a rotating body of volunteers in their respective 
fields, who would respond to the simple/trivial questions, forwarded 
to them by moderators (e.g., would point to a file already residing in 
CCL archives, or explain that HONDO is an ab initio program).        
       e) Split the list into "introductory" and "advanced" and 
moderator(s) will assign messages to the appropriate category.

  IX.3) Should the list be available as Usenet newsgroup? Why?

  IX.4) Should the list be monitored/censored? Why and by whom?
       Would you be willing to act as a moderator of the list, how 
much time you would contribute and under what conditions 
(remember, your answer is nonbinding, and anonymous)?



============== SURVEY END===============
     THANKS FOR YOUR KIND COLLABORATION!

(Again: please respond to CCLSurv@redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx, or WWW,
NOT TO THE LIST) !!!!!!
.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Dr. Alejandro Pisanty, Secretary of the Advisory Council on 
Computing, UNAM, and Head of the Graduate Division, Faculty of 
Chemistry, UNAM
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico DF
MEXICO
Tel. (+52-5) 622 4181, 616 1649; Fax 550 0904, 616 2010
.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 

From POSO@falli.uku.fi  Wed Jun  1 02:42:57 1994
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> Date:          Tue, 31 May 1994 18:13:56 +0200 (IST)
> From:          "Schriver,M;Chemistry;" <MSCHRIVER@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
> Subject:       CCL:HyperChem 
> To:            chemistry@ccl.net
> Cc:            mschriver@kean.ucs.mun.ca

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been lurking here recently and was hesitant to post but Rafael
> Najmanovich posted a request yesterday that struck home. Last year I
> wanted a software package that would 1) give publishable semi-empirical
> calculations on small molecules 2) be easy to use and 3) generate
> high quality graphics output of molecules and orbitals. 

<stuff deleted>

So far I agree

> To make a long story short a couple of chemists more familiar with theor=
et-
> ical chemistry that I recently talked to were so negative on the program=
 I am
> seriously reconsidering publishing anything I get from the package even =
if
> it confirms my experimental results. They said that the parameterisation
> of the package was so poor that the only reliable results would be on th=
e
> exact same molecules that HyperChem used to create the parameter files.
> Since I am looking at S and P in small hetercycles I was warned very str=
ongly
> against using HyperChem in AM1 or PM3 calculations.
> 
> They then proceded to tell me that the only reliable results would come 
> from programs that have names that encompass half the alphabet and most 
> of the alternate characters on the keyboard. Leaving me with the idea 
> that these calculations should be left to the professionals

WHY, ALLWAYS? Of course there are difficult cases, but still..

>. Oh well.
> 
> Before I throw away my copy of HyperChem could this list please address
> this issue? Where are semi-empirical calculations reliable? Is there a 
> difference between AM1 in HyperChem and AM1 in the original manuscripts?

Well, those chemist more familiar with theoretical chemistry are 
likely to be the the shareholders of some other softwarecompany :-)
My experience with HyperChem are good (not excellent), but so far all 
results from AM1 and PM3 calculations with HyperChem have been 
equal to the results from MOPAC or AMPAC (well, there are some 
differences, if you look the last digit :-)). To be honest, there is 
one article coming out where we used HyperChem. (Sulfur analogues of 
plychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, ....., Kopponen, Sinkkkonen, Poso, 
Gynther, K=E4renlampi; Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol 13, 
No, 9, scheduled for publication on 8/24/94.) 

> If Rafael gets any personal answers could he please post them here?
> 			Thanx in advance
> 							Mel
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> + M.J. Schriver, Assist. Prof.,     + Ph.  (709) 737-8744              +
> + Memorial University of NFLD       + Fax  (709) 737-3702              +
> + St. John's, NFLD, Canada, A1B 3X7 + eml  mschriver@kean.ucs.mun.ca   +

 


Antti Poso   poso@messi.uku.fi  phone: +358-(9)71-162462             
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry   fax: -162456
University of Kuopio      
Finland                  
                    pro fide

From yinona@niva.tau.ac.il  Wed Jun  1 04:56:41 1994
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From: yinon ashkenasy <yinona@niva.tau.ac.il>
Subject: MD of a DNA and a surface?
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Dear netters, I am trying to make an MD simulation of a single stranded DNA
on a surface. Does anyone know of computational models for calculating 
interaction energies between the planar surface of a solid of a known crystal
structure and an adsorbed protein ??
I would deeply appreciate any response with information about: models, 
refreances, literature, source codes (and other sources) and programs. 
					yinon
					yinona@niva.tau.ac.il


From MKRISM@tifrvax.tifr.res.in  Wed Jun  1 08:43:03 1994
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Dear Netters,
   I would like to enquire if anybody has a program to calculate 
spin-orbit coupling elements for an avoided crossing of two
potential energy curves.
I would be grateful if any body could help me in this regard.
Thanking you in advance.
 
M.Krishnamrurthy,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Reseach,
Homi Bhabha Road,
Bombay-5

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From h0159cap@joker.rz.hu-berlin.de  Wed Jun  1 12:43:07 1994
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Hi,

could anyone help me with references concerning the modelling of interactions
of mercury with organic molecules (pref. peptides, proteins). I would
certainly compile a summary of responses.

Thank you in advance.

Frank Eisenmenger
 
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From friedman@tammy.harvard.edu  Wed Jun  1 16:43:06 1994
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Cc: friedman@tammy.harvard.edu


  
  Use the best basis set you can, with plenty of polarization functions,
and diffuse functions (+) would be good too, as you will be looking at
systems whose resonance structures would include lots of lone pairs and
possibly anions; 3-21G*+ at the minimum, but preferably 6-31G**++.  

Use the
best basis set you can muster for the geometry optimization; energies
calculated at that geometry but at a higher basis set probably won't give
you much more information than you already have.  If you don't reoptimize
the geometry at each dihedral angle you try, your results will be deceptive,
but everyone knows that by now, right?
  
You'll want to do some post-Hartree-Fock, perhaps CISD; if you really
need to try for the absolute geometry changes between conformations, 
you'll have to
try optimizing with post-HF, but HF will give you the trends in geometry
changes.
  
If you're using Gaussian, which has it available as a keyword, the
Reed-Weinhold Natural Bond Orbitals are custom-made for this sort of thing.
They'll tell you which orbitals are interacting and how much (relative
to other systems in the set you're looking at.)
  
I'd be interested to hear about your results; this is an old pet problem
of mine.
  
  --Dawn Friedman   friedman@tammy.harvard.edu

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Dear CCL readers,

Due to current interest to HyperChem I decided to add my 0.02c.

Last year we had a chance to try HyperChem v 3.0. This programs has
good graphics and very good molecular editor/builder. Unfortunately, it
is very slow, at least for semiempirical calculations. For example,
it takes 35 min. on 486DX2 50MHz with 16 MB of memory to do MNDO 1SCF
and gradients for C60 (compare to Sibiq - 10 min.). We send to HyperChem
mail list a question 'why it is slow?', and the answer was "HyperChem
have not been optimized for speed". The second thing, which surprised us,
was that the best geometry optimization method we could choose was
conjugated gradients. This method not only 2-10 times more slow then
ordinary used in semiempirical calculation qusi-newton methods, but,
also, it may has a problem with convergence for a flat potential surface.

If someone is looking for program to do demonstration or teaching, HyperChem
is, probably, a way to go. I don't think that it is (sorry, was,
I am not sure that version 3 is the last version) a right choice to do
semiempirical calculations. It is, of course, my personal opinion.

Dr. Andrey Bliznyuk.

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From: sling@euclid.chem.washington.edu (Song Ling)
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Subject: Re:  CCL:Spin-orbit coupling elements for an avoided crossing
Status: R



Horia Metiu et al has a paper in JCP for doing curve crossing
sometime ago.
		S. Ling


