The ''Tetrahedron Computer Methodology'' was a short lived journal that was published by Pergamon Press (now Elsevier) to experiment with electronic submission of articles in the ChemText format, and the sharing source code to enable reproducibility. It was the first chemical journal to be published electronically, with issues distributed in print and on

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s. It is likely it was also the first journal to accept submissions in a non-paper format (on floppy disks). The journal ceased publication owing to technical and non-technical reasons, and may have lacked sufficient institutional support. The last issue appeared in 1992 but was dated 1990.

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*{{Official website, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/08985529 Computer science journals Cheminformatics Chemistry journals Publications established in 1988 English-language journals Elsevier academic journals Publications disestablished in 1990