What is the relationship among the various RasMol web sites?
There is no connection between the molecular graphics program RasMol and the rasmol.com web site. The www.RasMol.org, www.OpenRasMol.org and www.OpenRasMol.com sites are all the same site, the home page for the molecular graphic program RasMol. Eric Martz’s site www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/ is focused on Protein Explorer and Chime. Even though it is badly out of date with respect to RasMol, it contains a great deal of useful information, and maintains a discussion list for those interested in RasMol. We have notified that holders of rasmol.com that they are causing confusion with our marks by using the name rasmol for their site, but they have not, to date (15 June 2002), responded to our email. One might speculate that they are using the popularity of the name to draw “eyeballs” for the advertising on their site. Please note that the RasMol project does not draw any revenue or other benefit from such advertising. — HJB | Copying and Distribution | Contents | Software Distributions
