New Software for Chemical Education

Dear Colleague:
 I am pleased to announce Bio-Rad's new software tool for teaching key concepts
 in organic and analytical chemistry:  the Academic Edition of Bio-Rad's
 KnowItAll(R) Informatics System.  The KnowItAll Academic Edition is available
 by download at no charge for professors, other faculty and staff, and students
 at degree-granting institutions (see website URL information below).  As the
 winner of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation magazine's Reader's Choice
 Award for Best Spectroscopy Software in 2001, 2002, and 2003, we proudly offer
 this high quality teaching resource to the professors and students of
 today--the professors and scientists of tomorrow.
 The KnowItAll Academic Edition represents the combination of the renowned
 Sadtler spectral data and software with the highly regarded ChemWindow software
 (from the former Softshell company, now part of Bio-Rad).  The new program
 includes:
 - Applications for chemical structure drawing and reporting,
 - A teaching version of the well-known Perch software for proton
   NMR spectrum prediction and simulation,
 - Applications for processing NMR, IR, and Raman spectra,
 - Applications for IR and Raman spectroscopy functional group analysis,
 - The Sadtler Handbook of Infrared Spectra in a new web format,
 - An application for 3D structure creation and visualization,
 - An application for symmetry and point group analysis, and
 - Clipart for laboratory glassware and chemical engineering symbols.
 I recently described the KnowItAll Academic Edition in two talks at the ACS
 meeting in New York.  A recording of a recent webcast of these combined
 presentations is available on our WebEx site at http://bio-radevents.webex.com
 (please click on the "Recorded Events" link on the left).  The
 presentation
 will give you ideas about how you can use KnowItAll to teach key concepts in
 organic and analytical chemistry.
 Please visit our web site at http://www.knowitall.com/academic to download your
 copy of the KnowItAll Academic Edition--Bio-Rad wants to help you make each of
 your students a KnowItAll in chemistry!
 Best regards,
 Gregory M. Banik, Ph.D.
 General Manager
 Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
 Informatics Division
 3316 Spring Garden Street
 Philadelphia, PA  19104
 USA
 Web:  http://www.knowitall.com/academic
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