teaching & software

From: Dermot Brougham <dermot.brougham ^at^ dcu.ie>
Subject: teaching & software
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:23:40 +0000

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
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 Dr. Dermot Brougham
 School of Chemical Sciences
 Dublin City University
 Dublin 9
 Ireland
 Tel 353 1 7005472
 Fax 353 1 7005503