FREE! Bio/chem software

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UW faculty, staff & students can download these chemical software tools for free!

ChemBioOffice 2008

• Includes ChemDraw Std 11.0, ChemDraw ActiveX, and Chem3D ActiveX
  
• Draw chemical reactions and structures - MS Office integration, customizable arrow tools, color faded shapes, and terminal carbon labeling
• Query online databases and view & publish online structures

SciFinder Scholar

• World's largest collection of organic & inorganic substance information
• 16 million+ chemical reactions
• 1 billion+ predicted & experimental properties
• CAS Registry number database
• Patent records within 2 days of issue
• Sequences from CAS and GenBank, linked to the literature
• Article abstracts from 10,000+ currently published journals
• Regulatory and supplier information
  

Beilstein / Gmelin MDL Crossfire Commander

• Beilstein (organic) & Gmelin (inorganic/organometallic) databases provide preparations, reactions and properties of chemical substances
  
• Searchable by chemical structure, formula, physical property parameters, chemical reaction, and literature citation
• Beilstein also includes pharmacological, ecotoxicological and bioactivity data

More tools

• Chemistry Computing Center software
• Condor - distributed, high-throughput computing
• Game of Life
• Mauve - genome evolution
• OME at LOCI - microscopy visualization
• Steenbock Library Infolab - Amino Acids, Stryer's Biochemistry, etc.
• WinPLT - chemical structures
  

Changes to SciFinder Scholar off-campus use

To set up WiscVPN for Scifinder Scholar access from off-campus:

1. Reserve a WiscVPN static IP address.
2. Download and install the current WiscVPN client
3. Verify that you can connect using the dynamic profile.
4. Locate the on-campus static profile.
5. SAVE in the profiles directory of the VPN client - C:\ProgramFiles\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\profiles
6. Launch WiscVPN.
7. Click WiscVPN-OnCampusStatic.
8. Click CONNECT.
9. Enter your STATIC VPN LOGIN and your NetID PASSWORD.

To access SciFinder Scholar from off-campus:

1. Launch WiscVPN.
2. Click WiscVPN-OnCampusStatic.
3. Click CONNECT.
4. Launch SciFinder Scholar.

What is the SciFinder Scholar database?

• Article abstracts from 10,000+ scientific journals
• Cover-to-cover coverage for more than 1,500 key chemical journals (1994+)
• Patent references from 57 authorities around the world
• Abstracts for conference proceedings, technical reports, books, dissertations
• 39 million+ organic and inorganic chemical substances - synonyms, molecular formulas, structure diagrams, properties
• 16 million+ single- and multi-step chemical reactions
• 60 million+ sequences from CAS and GenBank, linked to journal and patent literature
• Chemical supplier and regulatory information

Subject areas:

• Biochemistry - agrochemical regulators, biochemical genetics, fermentation, immunochemistry, pharmacology
• Organic chemistry - amino acids, biomolecules, carbohydrates, organometallic compounds, steroids
• Macromolecular chemistry - cellulose, lignin, paper, coatings, inks, dyes, organic pigments, synthetic elastomers, textiles, fibers
• Applied chemistry - air pollution, ceramics, essential oils, cosmetics, fossil fuels, ferrous metals, alloys
• Physical, inorganic, analytical chemistry - surface chemistry, catalysts, phase equilibrium, nuclear phenomena, electrochemistry

See also: our SciFinder Scholar library guide.