An easy to use and in the same time professional chem draw software is
the latest version of ISIS/Draw, available for free at MDL Information
System homepage; you could easily locate their web site using Altavista
or other search engine. The program has incorporated Rasmol software and
you can see and manipulate in "3D" the structures you draw. It also
makes computations on chemical reactivity, reaction centers, molecular
structure, 3D coordinates; it does not minimize or dock structures but
having direct link to RasMol they can be seen in "3D". ISIS comes with
an extensive database of various predrawed, ready to use structures,
including aminoacids and can manipulate aminoacid or nucleic acid
sequences. Other programs are CaCHE, by Softshell, and ChemOffice -a
suite including a true 3D drawing program, by Cambridge Soft. Both are
commercially available and relatively unexpensive(CaCHE is 300$). For
undemanding purposes, ISIS remains anyway a reliable tool.
calin.
CD-ROM Vol 3 was produced by Monica M. Shively and other staff at the
Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories and distributed free of charge
as an educational service to the cytometry community.
If you have any comments please direct them to
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PUCL, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
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