CCL: Setting up new (academic) research lab; software purchase questions



 
Hi Dave,
You can read the publications of comparison of methods associated with softwares. e.g. docking methods/tools are compared with some datasets.
Best wishes,
Prasanna
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 Dave.ccl_list~~giantscience.com wrote :
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>Sent to CCL by: "Dave  ." [ccl_list,,giantscience.com]
>I'm in the process of setting up a new modeling research lab at MIT (academic lab). I'm trying to put together a budget for modeling software we'll want to purchase for the coming year. We will be part of a drug design effort, so we'll be doing the standard stuff associated with such an effort (visualization of ligands and proteins, docking, scoring [binding, ADME], etc.) We expect to have a lot of compounds/data flowing through via library screening.
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>The software we already have access to (free to us) includes the MOE package, Pipeline Pilot, and the complete CambridgeSoft suite.
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>The question is: What software should I budget purchasing? I was considering, in particular, the Schrodinger stuff. The quote I got was $11,500/year for a single license for their suite, or $5000/year for 20 "tokens", that will allow me to run run 3-4 of their programs simultaneously. Any suggestions/comments on this pricing and which option is preferable?
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>I'd like to bring in Insight, because that's the program I've used for visualization for a long time, but I've heard that Accelrys' pricing is not too academic friendly.
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>Alternatively, I can bring in the academic (nearly) freeware: Amber, Dock, Modeler, PyMol, etc. Of course, then you don't get the nice(r) integration of stuff like Schrodinger.
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>I'm open to hearing alternatives, yes/nos, etc. We can definitely put money in the budget for modeling software. I just don't want to toss money into the street unnecessarily.
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