Programming languages in chemistry: a review of HTML5/JavaScript

Abstract

Abstract This is one part of a series of reviews concerning the application of programming languages in chemistry, edited by Dr. Rajarshi Guha. This article reviews the JavaScript technology as it applies to the chemistry discipline. A discussion of the history, scope and technical details of the programming language is presented.

Keywords

• JavaScript
• HTML5
• Programming
• Chemistry
• Cheminformatics
• Computational chemistry