Title from title screen. Interactive three dimensional molecular data and multiple colour images. Text presented in Hypertext Markup Language (.htm); images in standard formats (.jpg, .gif); molecules presented mostly as Cambridge Protein Data Bank format (.pdb); some molecules presented in alternative X.Mol cartesian co-ordinates format (.xyz); search facility in PERL script. Includes bibliographical references. Text, numeric and representational data System requirements: for text, any standard web browser on any platform, Netscape 2.x or higher, Internet Explorer 3.x or higher; for molecular structures, viewer such as Rasmol or preferably MDL's Chemscape Chime; for search facility , an appropriately configured web server. Links to all required software for browsing on various platforms are included in the software directory in the thesis. Mode of access: World Wide Web.