software/online briefs • Software 301 Spotfire Pro 4.0 lets users interactively retrieve, visualize, and analyze large sets of technical, multidimensional data to quickly identify trends and understand relationships within them. New capabilities, including 3-D visualization and full-text searching, make it easy for users to recover information stored in disparate corporate databases. Spotfire Pro supports R&D activities, for example, when scientists must make decisions based on analyses of enormous amounts of data on chemical compounds, toxicology, or clinical trials or in materials sciences to analyze formulation and environmental data. The software can be used as a standalone Windows 95, 98, or NT desktop program or with the Internet-based Spotfire Discovery Server. Spotfire 302 SigmaScan Pro 5.0 is an imageanalysis package for studying structure and size. It provides a measurement solution by turning images into objective analytical data and meaningful scientific conclusions. Chemists can use it to perform particle size analysis, geometric crystal analysis for matrix-order determination, and metallurgical analysis on metal bond-
that work together to facilitate the formation, solution, and interpretation of problems involving gas-phase and heterogeneous gas-surface chemical kinetics. The collection provides a flexible and powerful tool for incorporating complex chemical kinetics into simulations of reacting flow. Examples of areas where Chemkin tools have been successfully applied include combustion, catalysis, chemical vapor deposition, and plasma etching. The software supports UNIX and Windows 95, 98, and NT platforms. Reaction Design 305 AutoQuant provides an integrated Windows-based software platform for the automatic collection, archiving, and real-time analysis of Fourier-transform IR spectral data. A multiple window display makes results easy to read and interpret. The spectral window allows users to choose between the current or past interferograms and single-beam, absorbance, or residual spectra. In the second window, numerical results with error analysis are displayed. Concentration values for each compound are plotted in a third window. Midac
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303 Spectral Server is a Windows NT Server-based software system that will provide archival data storage and searching capabilities for enterprise-wide management and distribution of spectroscopy and chromatography data. Using industry standard databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, users can store data from literally any laboratory instrument. Spectral Server can be linked with a company's existing laboratory information management system and chemical registration system. Galactic 304 Chemkin 3.5 is a collection of programs, subroutine libraries, preprocessors, application models, and databases 3 2 JULY 12,1999 C&EN
ground. Users may also browse the glossary alphabetically. National Human Genome Research Institute Wiley Journals Online (http://www.in terscience.wiley.com) offers online access to some 300 Wiley journals. The web site features the ability to view tables of contents and article abstracts, a "persistent query" function to keep customized search parameters, and a personal home page where users can store annotated lists of favorite articles and journals. Laboratory Network (http://www.Lab oratoryNetwork.com) is directed to chemists, researchers, laboratory managers, and research directors, as well as users, purchasers, and manufacturers of laboratory equipment, chemicals, and supplies. In addition to a forum for buying and selling new or surplus lab products at competitive prices, Laboratory
• Databases 306 BioCatalysis contains more than 26,000 reactions selected from more than 18,500 citations, including patents, published from 1903 to date. It covers all aspects of biocatalysis chemistry, including use of enzymes, whole cells, enzyme mimics, enzyme analogs, and catalytic antibodies. The database includes a wide range of nonstructural information such as keywords, yield, scale, and CAS Registry Numbers. Synopsys
ing; to characterize microstructural flaws in steel; to document and compare fluorescence results with light microscopy; to convert 1-D and 2-D electrophoresis results into quantitative data; and to prepare and annotate slides for presentations and publications. The software is compatible with Windows 95, 98, or NT. SPSS
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Glossary of Genetic Terms (http:// www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIRA/IP/Glossary/) allows users to search for terms and con-
cepts of genetic research. The search results presented are the definition, phonetic spelling, a list of related terms with links, an audio explanation by a scientist, and information on the scientist's back-
Network provides daily news updates and reports on business and technology trends. Visitors will find information about laboratory chemicals, products, systems, services, and equipment, including analytical instruments, computer hardware and software, chromatography equipment, separation systems, filtration systems, and liquid-handling equipment. Laboratory Network's news content will include coverage of R&D developments, regulatory issues, and industry trends. Molecular Modeling for Organic Chemistry (http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/ organic/mod/) is a course of eight lectures and lecture-demonstrations given by Henry Rzepa of the department of chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London. The aim of the course is to introduce the hierarchy of computational modeling methods that are standard tools used by organic chemists to search for, rationalize, and predict the structure and reactivity of organic, bioorganic, and organometallic molecules. Users can learn which modeling tool is appropriate for their problem and the limitations and strengths of each.
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