@Simon-Nail-It We have a homework policy in place that allows for users to post HW questions. If the policy is not adhered to, the post will be closed or put on hold (as with any other post that doesnt meet this site's criteria).
At the end of the day @Simon-Nail-It, we are NOT a homework service.
@LordStryker We can message them to try to find the answer to the question, and edit the question by putting their own answer. After that, they can ask that whether the answer is correct or not.
Man I was just looking at our visits/day in Area51 and its hovering at ~13K. This is impressive given that we are still in 'beta status' and far exceeds other established communities such as SE:Academia and SE:Physics.
@JoeStavitsky Thanks. Definitely, it's designed to be a "molecular sketchpad" for 3D views of molecules. That's why we created it.
Now we're working on v2, albeit a bit slower than I'd like, with much better and faster rendering.
@LordStryker Our quality assurance is that we're not taking deposits. We run all the calculations.
So people will be able to add molecules to the queue, but the calculations will only run every week or two to minimize "please do my homework" efforts.
I've learned from participating on Chemistry.SE. :-)
The submission will be via web, but if you have some interesting structures, you can e-mail me or send me a URL. Right now, we've grabbed coordinates from PubChem, etc. so we're short on metals and non-drug-like.
We have a set of scripts to check if a job has run successfully.
Basically, I know some things will require manual intervention, so a sizable amount of $$ will pay work-study students to check failed jobs.
My feeling is that we can pay better and offer much more interesting work than the dining hall, so we'll give preference to diversity and financial need.
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I have the backend in pretty good shape, I think. (Famous last words.)
The web front end.. Well, I know zero about mobile "responsive" web design.
And we'll definitely have a "report bug" link, which I think was on the mockup iPad graphic that circulated with the press release.
Pitt will eventually be banned, since my colleague is a Q-Chem developer. But we need to convince some of my colleagues that life will be fine (and probably better).
Yes, the docs are great, although I'd love it to be in HTML in sections.
I was banned in grad school, since John Pople was at Northwestern.
The main downside would be that Open Babel and Avogadro might not easily keep up with changes to file formats in G15 or whatever the next version will be.