The other, InCINC '94, dealt with chemometrics and was sponsored by the North American chapter of the International Chemometrics Society and the publishing firm Elsevier, along with the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Wash., where the organization of that conference was centered. There were no fees for the conference. Public discussion via the conference server was limited to registrants. However, bilateral discussions were also held between parties. Since each paper or poster was directly linked to the principal author, direct communication with authors was extremely simple and could be kept private.
Plans are for the papers to remain on-line for at least two years.
The e-mail discussions were subscribed to by 284 individuals. The main conference server and the North American mirror served most of the papers and posters, although 20 were mounted on servers at authors' own sites. The accesses were made by a total of 1,891 unique remote computers from all over the world. Those are the basics. With access to the 3-D coordinates of the key intermediate, users could freely rotate the structure and examine the stereochemical implications.