A WORLD-WIDE-WEB INTERFACE TO AN NMR SPECTROMETER

The architecture of a multiuser World-Wide Web NMR system has been des cribed. The essential element of the system is the hardware and softwa re interface between the NMR spectrometer and the user on the World-Wi de Web. The hardware is a UNIX computer equipped with an S-Bus digital input-output adapter and an external analog-digital converter. Softwa re is a World-Wide Web server and a Common-Gateway Interface program w ritten in C language. By employing the client/server paradigm, many ne ar-simultaneous NMR sessions can take place via the well-known environ ment of the modem WWW browsers. The interface can be viewed as an inex pensive migration path to upgrading older instrumentation offering muc h improved capabilities, e.g., faster sampling rates.