On-Line Chemistry Resources

The table below lists lists links to sites where you may obtain freeware and shareware that you can download onto your computer. If you find any free software that you think other students might be interested in, send the URL to rhodes@usm.maine.edu.

Name

Commemts

Netscape

The most popular Internet browser.

Internet Explorer

Microsoft's alternative to Netscape.

ISIS Draw

A full-blown chemical structure drawing program.

Chime

A plug-in for viewing interactive molecular models.

Shockwave

A plug-in for viewing animations created with Macromedia Director.

GifBuilder

A free program for creating GIF animations.

ChemWeb

A free chemical structure drawing program for creating GIF images.

ZipIt

Shareware. ZipIt is a Macintosh program that zips and unzips archives in a format fully compatible with PKZip for the IBM and zip implementations on other systems.

ChemDraw Net

A plug-in that allows you to draw chemical structures and copy them as SMILES.

RasMol

A program for viewing molecular structures of molecules of all sizes, including proteins and nucleic acids.

Swiss PDB Viewer

A powerful yet easy-to-use program for viewing,analyzing, and comparing the structures of biomolecules.

ChemFinder

This program searches a database of chemical information for the name, CAS registry number, or molecular formula of a compound. It returns the structure and physical properties that compound.

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