Revision as of 07:08, 8 December 2011

ZINC History This is the history of the web interface to ZINC. The database has been updated continuously since the beginning.

Past

ZINC 12. Lab testing began in March 2011. Alpha release in late summer 2011. Beta release Dec 1, 2011. Production Release Jan 1, 2012.

ZINC 11. April 2010. New Search interface with ChemAxon JChemBase/MySQL as the search engine.

ZINC8 was released June 18th, 2008. It was the last major release before we started using ChemAxon as the backend.

ZINC7 was released 1/1/2007. It was an incremental release, and looks much like ZIN C7. It will be no longer available after September 2009.

ZINC6 was released 1/1/2006. It was a major release in which all molecular geometries were re-created from scratch. It will be no longer available after September 2009.

ZINC5 was released 1/1/2005. It was a major release, and coincided with the publication of the ZINC paper. It will be no longer available after September 2009.

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 = Past =
-* ZINC 12. Lab testing began in March 2011.  Currently in alpha test. July 2011.
+* ZINC 12. Lab testing began in March 2011.  Alpha release in late summer 2011. Beta release Dec 1, 2011. Production Release Jan 1, 2012.
-* ZINC 11. April 2010. New Search interface with ChemAxon as the search engine.
+* ZINC 11. April 2010. New Search interface with ChemAxon JChemBase/MySQL as the search engine.
-* ZINC 10. Feb. 2010. ZINC under SVN. Minor corrections.
+* ZINC 10. Feb. 2010. moved to SVN. Minor corrections.
-* ZINC 9. We skipped because it was already 2010.
+* ZINC 9. Development use only.
 * ZINC8 was released June 18th, 2008. It was the last major release before we started using ChemAxon as the backend.