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Mike,
	There is a library called STATLIB on the Hensa archive that contains
a whole load of stuff on clustering.


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Greetings all,


    I am looking for Benchmarks , preferably in the pbd format, of B- DNA 
dodecamers. ANd also possibly NaDNA complexs. I have looked at several 
sites, namely the archives at osc. CAn some one point me in the right directi
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From CHEM8@vax.york.ac.uk  Mon Feb  6 05:38:31 1995
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 Hi Netters,
    I would like some help/information concerning the publication of
 conference proceedings. I have looked unsuccessfully through CCL's
 archives, so will summarize any responses I receive. 
 
     Firstly I presume there are two main ways of doing this -
 either using a Journal or a Publishing House. Other?
     What are the (dis)advantages of these choices?
     Refereeing?
     Cost? etc.
 
     I believe there are also two ways of producing such proceedings -
     Photographically (on pre-defined forms) or electronically. Other?
     Again, what are the (dis)advantages of these choices?
     Cost? etc.
 
     Concerning Journals, the topic of the conference in question is
 super-computing. So which Journals are suitable? I would like their title,
 preferebly e-mail address or phone, else FAX or postal address + the name
 of a person to contact.
     Similarly for Publishing Houses - I know Elsevier, North-Holland,
 D.Reidel, Plenum and Kluwer do this sort of thing. Other?
     And the above contact proceedure(s).
 
     I would be grateful if any/some of these firms contacted me.
 My postal and e-mail addresses + direct phone are in the header of this
 message.
      Any other tips, suggestions, things to beware of, 'musts' or general
 info. will be appreciated,
      Thanking you all,
         John Waite

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I do not argue with the numbers that any arbitrary program produces, but how can
they be meaningful when there is no exchange for a 1-electron system ?

The only functional I know of that does this CORRECTLY is that of Colle &
Salvetti who get exactly 0 for exchange and correlation, because they use a
2-particle density matrix. There may be others. I don't understand how anything
else could be "correct".

I will accept rebuttals gracefully.

Regards

John

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Hi Netters,

Could you tell me the Madelung constant for the crystalline Li2O ?
Please give me references if there are.

Thank you very much.

Amin

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Dear netters,
we are searching information on any up to date Impact Factor and
Citation Index data. Is there any internet site?
Many Thanks,
	Domenico Osella

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Dear Net-chemists,

after doing "classical" Molecular Dynamics of solvated proteins I'm thinking
about treating small parts of my proteins with Density Functional Calculations,
while retaining the old MD force field for the rest of the system.

Since my background is mostly in classical MD, I'm in desparate need of GOOD
literature!

So if you have any must-reads in mind, please share your knowledge with me! I'm
thinking of books, but very thorough reviews would certainly be welcome, too!

	Thanx in advance,
	Gerald
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Dear all,

Could someone tell me where I may find the source code for converting 
numbers at 3-D grids into isosurfaces ?   We do have a commercial 
package which can nicely do part of the job but not all.  Thank you
for your information.

Bingze Wang
e-mail:  wang@irbm.it

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Subject: CHARRM mutation


Does anybody know what the easiest way to mutate one amino acid
residue into another.  Is construction of a hybrid necessary
or is there some way to tell CHARMM that one amino acid
exists in the reactant and  the other exists in the product
similar to what you would do for indivdual atoms in a hybrid.

Thanks 

Matthew McCarron
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From SATYAM@vms.cis.pitt.edu  Mon Feb  6 14:37:36 1995
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Dear Netters,
We are interested in knowing the ftp'able or otherwise available
softwares for Drug-Design ?

I will summarize the responses..if I get any..
Satyam


From jdurant@mephisto.ca.sandia.gov  Mon Feb  6 14:41:49 1995
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Hello!

I am interested in analyzing attractive and repulsive interactions in
H-atom transfer reactions, A-H-B, where A and B are doublets.  I have
looked at Perturbational MO Analysis, but it seems to be limited to 
closed shell systems, and pi-bonds.  What I would like to do is to
break the interaction down in analogy to the way BEBO does it, into
the attractive A-H and H-B interactions, and a repulsive A-B interaction.

Any pointers?  I will summarize responses if there is interest.

Joe

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Hi
  I am trying to model the chemical reactions of some polyatomic 
gases on the polysilicon surface. Firstly, I want to calculate the reaction
constants of those reactions and I found that the QCPE program "Polyrate"
would fit this purpose. Is there any other possibilities?
And does anybody know the contact point(fax or e-mail) of Donald G. Truhlar
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Any suggestions shall be greatly appreciated.
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Jai K. Shin
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From: Jan Labanowski <jkl@ccl.net>
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Dear Netters,

Since I received many questions concerning the contents/form of the letters
for support of the Comp. Chem. List, I need to clarify some things.

1. What it should contain?
   It is up to you...  I believe you may just write why the list is useful,
   and why it should be continued and improved in the future.
   You can address it to me, or to "To whom it may concern", whichever form
   is more convenient to you (but send them to me by regular mail or FAX).

2. Who should send it?
   All of you who think that the list is worth supporting. I mean ALL,
   in whatever country, organization, or position you are. You see...
   It is also a reality check for me... If I do not have a broad support,
   then why bother? If you cannot find time to write the letter, and if
   I get only a handful of them, you exercised your right to vote.
   If for some reason, you need a lengthy process of intraorganizational
   approval for such a letter, just write it as a private person to cut the
   red tape.

3. When to send it?
   As soon as possible. Primo, if you do not write it now, you will not
   write it... Secundo, I need them soon. I assume that mail from overseas
   needs some time to get here, but I can wait weeks, not months.

If some of you missed my original appeal, it can be retrieved by sending
a message:
     select chemistry
      cd ccl-proposal
      ls
      message.txt
      quit
to MAILSERV@ccl.net

Thank you for you attention. As always, I am thankful for suggestions and
comments which you sent me via e-mail. 
I understand that the proposal is getting more and more out of date every
day (it was written a year ago).  I would appreciate your comments on how to
make it better.

Some ideas in the proposal are not really mine, but came from the CCL
subscribers at that time. The progress is so fast that it is difficult
to have a written document current for more than a month. My general
idea (as you guessed right from the proposal) is to accomodate the widest
possible audience of CCL, since diversity of technical means and expectations
is really very wide. But at the same time, I want to provide means for
creating "personal profile" for each subscriber which can be changed as you
wish at any time via some simple interface. But this is obviously quite
a substantial software and managerial project (believe me, I know what is out,
and what is not there yet...).

The summer survey of the list provided me with a lot of insight. Thank you
again for responding. The results of the survey will be made available soon.
I really read all your comments and think about them, even if I cannot answer
right away (or do not answer them at all -- in case when it is just a comment,
not a question). 

Jan
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Hello

Look for Isovis and XDataSlice in ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/Unix

Pedro
WANG@IRBM.IT said:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Could someone tell me where I may find the source code for converting 
> numbers at 3-D grids into isosurfaces ?   We do have a commercial 
> package which can nicely do part of the job but not all.  Thank you
> for your information.
> 
> Bingze Wang
> e-mail:  wang@irbm.it
> 

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Dear netters,

does anybody know about a[C FTPable LDA Kohn-Sham atomic program?

Thn\anks in advance

				Dr. Daniel Glossman

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Hi there,

I have a question regarding the quality of semiempirical vs. empirical methods.
We have been annealing small polyptides (9 amino acids, 150 atoms) using the amber
force field by repeatedly running MD at high temp., cooling it down and finally 
minimizing it. The standard amber ff has been used with a constant dielectric of 1.

We then take the lowest energy conformations and reoptimize them with PM3. 
The conformational changes are quite large with the PM3 geometries being somewhat
more open. Also, the relative energies change a lot.
In some situations conformation A is lower then B by 7 kcal/mol
using amber but B is lower that A by 5 kcal/mol using PM3.
We would like to compare the calculations to gas phase experiments. 
So which method is better and more reliable?

Thanks,   Gert

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