Appendix C. Software standards used.

This document is encoded in Electronic Theses and Dissertations Markup Language (ETDML) using etd.dtd v.1.1. Non-ASCII characters are encoded in Unicode v.2.0. All the figures are GIF87a (Data type: unsigned char, Dimension order: interleaved, Color model: color index, Coordinate space: upper-left, Minimum: 0, Maximum: 255). The virtual reality models (*.wrl files) are encoded in VRML 1.0.

The SGML parser used to check this document was "nsgmls" included as part of the package SP v.1.0.1 by James Clark. The word processor was "jot", a utility provided in IRIX 5.3. ISIS/Draw v.1.2 was used for all the chemical drawings. The figures were generated either by using the ``snapshot'' utility provided in IRIX 5.3 to make a *.rgb image file, which was later converted to GIF87a by ``movieconvert'', another image processing utility provided in IRIX 5.3; or by saving the image as a Microsoft *.bmp file, which was later converted to GIF87a by LView for Windows v.3.1. The *.wrl files were generated by saving the molecule in PDB format from MacroModel, and then translating with the program pdb2vrml using the "-stick" flag. All the conversions between chemical file formats were done using Babel v.1.1.

Mention of a given program or brand name does not imply endorsement by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University or any of its departments.