SOFTWARE/DATABASE UPDATE • CS ChemDraw and CS ChemDraw Pro (Cambridge Scientific Computing; list price $495 and $795, respectively; circle 301) are now available for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows NT. The programs provide specialized tools for drawing chemical structures and editing associated text. ChemDraw Pro has some additional advanced features, including user-definable templates, color, and tools for integrating ChemDraw structures with MACSS and other file formats. • Dialog Ondisc Advanced Materials (ASM International, $3,450 annual subscription, circle 302) is a CD-ROM on nonmetallic engineered materials, including polymers and plastics, ceramics and refractories, wood products, textiles and fibers, rubber and elastomers, and composites. It includes 300,000 abstracts from some 2,500 publications published from 1985 to the present. • Enriching Quantum Chemistry with Mathcad and Bonding Theory/The Werner-Jorgensen Controversy (Journal of Chemical Education: Software; $50, $70 foreign and Canada, for both; circle 303) are new Windows-based educational programs. ''Enriching Quantum Chemistry" bridges the gap between the formalism of quantum theory and its various computational methods. "Bonding Theory" introduces beginning chemistry students to the process by which concepts of molecular structure and bonding developed during the 19th century. • Scientist for Windows (MicroMath Scientific Software; $295 commercial, $249 academic; circle 304), a package for experimental data-fitting and simulation, runs under Windows 3.1. Features include a math worksheet and notebook that supports 100 functions and over 550 dimensional units, and a new graphics module with 3-D plotting. • Accord (Synopsys Scientific Systems Ltd., $695, circle 305) is a chemical data analysis and spreadsheet program that runs under Windows in conjunction with Microsoft Excel. Accord stores chemical structures and other chemical information in spread-
sheet cells. Chemically meaningful functions can then be linked to those cells for properties calculations and chemical analysis operations. • Reality (Kinetic Systems Corp., pricing available from company, circle 306), a data acquisition package for UNIX workstations, supports large, demanding applications requiring distributed-system data collection. Applications include data acquisition from scientific instruments and process control. • Labtech Notebook 8.0 and Labtech Control 5.0 (Laboratory Technologies Corp.; $495 and $1,995, respectively; circle 307) are major upgrades to these Windows programs for data acquisition and process control. Enhancements include an improved graphical user interface and a client-server feature that enables users to monitor and control processes remotely over a local area network. "Pro" versions of the programs ($995 and $3,495, respectively) are also available, providing customization and other advanced features. • Easy Jersey (Softrack Systems, $265, circle 308) is a hazardous substances database and right-to-know labeling program. The IBM PC application helps users comply with the OSHA hazard communication standard and state right-to-know ingredient identification laws. • Bookends Pro (Westing Software, $149, circle 309) is a Macintosh-based bibliography management program for scientists and other professionals. It streamlines the process of collecting, tracking, and formatting reference information, and automatically generates bibliographies and footnotes to journal specifications. • PowerSearch (Tripos Associates; $395 commercial, $275 academic; circle 310) is a conformational searching program for Windows computers. Developed in collaboration with CheMkro Research & Development of Hungary, the software finds low-energy conformations with systematic or Monte Carlo searches.
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