From chemistry-request@ccl.net Mon Oct 14 20:29:35 1991 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 91 17:22:08 PDT From: fisher@scripps.edu (Cindy Fisher) To: chemistry@ccl.net Subject: Macintosh educational software for the sciences Status: R Many thanks to the respondents to my earlier posting concerning Mac educational software. Here I present a summary of responses (if you need any more info than I have here, feel free to contact me, and I'll try and point you in the right direction): ----------------------- Terry Yeung at Cal-Animage Berkeley forwarded a message he received about PD_Science, Professor Thomas O'Haver's catalog of science/math/engineering public domain and shareware programs available from CompuServe, America Online, GEnie, and a number of Internet addresses. I looked through this, and it's a fairly hefty list. It can be obtained by anonymous FTP from ra.nrl.navy.mil as MacSciTech/info/PD_Science.txt. If you don't have Internet, you can grab it from GEnie or America OnLine, too. For further info, contact: Prof. T. C. O'Haver Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Internet: toh@umd2.umd.edu ----------------------- Al Lowrey mentioned a molecular structure visualization program called NANOVISION and pointed me toward the software office at ACS. ----------------------- Laura Walsh at the University of Illinois suggested two software packages, SimEarth and SimAnt as potentially useful. ----------------------- Dongchul Lim from Yale sent an extensive reply to Richard Swenson's query, which I believe we all received, that describes several modeling packages that are commercially available. ----------------------- Mingzuo Shen pointed me toward several anonymous ftp sources for software. In addition to the ra.nrl.navy.mil MacSciTech group's collection mentioned by Iosif Vaisman to the bulletin board, he referred me to ftp.bio.indiana.edu, which has many scientific programs, and specific directories for biology, chemistry, and molecular biology programs (I'm still digging in this wealth of info), and to wuarchive.wustl.edu, at Washington University, which is REALLY loaded, and is going to take many fun hours of digging through. ----------------------- Terry Stouch from Squibb and Jacquelyn Fetrow from SUNY-Albany mentioned Michael Levitt's program MacImadad as a useful molecular modeling program. Jacquelyn Fetrow also suggested Autodesk for this purpose. ----------------------- Greg Durst at Lilly gave addresses for two scientific software houses: BioSoft, PO Box 580, Milltown, NJ 08850 and Trinity Software, PO Box 960, Campton, NH 03223. They have programs on enzyme kinetics and statistics, among others. ----------------------- Ralph Merkle at Xerox suggested Chem 3D plus from Cambridge Scientific Computing (617-491-6862), which is a bit pricey, but is apparently a very good MM2 package. He also suggested looking into the QCPE Mac software (812-855-4784). Cindy Fisher Department of Molecular Biology The Research Institute of Scripps Clinic La Jolla, CA 92037 E-mail to: fisher@scripps.edu