From chemistry-request ":at:" server.ccl.net Thu Feb 21 05:25:13 2002 Received: from hawk.dcu.ie ([136.206.1.5]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g1LAPD523340 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 05:25:13 -0500 Received: from dcu.ie (136.206.86.63) by hawk.dcu.ie (6.0.040) id 3C73AA2500007309 for chemistry-!at!-ccl.net; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:24:51 +0000 Message-ID: <3C74CAAC.AF2B806F $#at#$ dcu.ie> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:23:40 +0000 From: Dermot Brougham X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chemistry;at;ccl.net Subject: teaching & software Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Last year I asked ccl about free and commercial molecular modelling software for teaching. For better or for worse I bought Hyperchem in the end and ran a short lecture series/workshop which went quite well. I would like to extend this course to be a 36hr module to include drug design / virtual screening / docking. A few questions to anyone who has done something similar: 1. Is this appropriate undergrad fare? 2. What software would you recommend (whether free or commercial)? Note it must be windows based-I know this is a big limitation. 3. What is the best approach to teaching this sort of material? I will summarise if requested. Thanks, Dermot -- Dr. Dermot Brougham School of Chemical Sciences Dublin City University Dublin 9 Ireland Tel 353 1 7005472 Fax 353 1 7005503