2009
Chemene JSDraw - A Javascript Chemical Structure Editor/Viewer
29 12 09 - Filed in: Chemical drawing
New Fortran Book
28 12 09 - Filed in: books
Fortran remains the programming language of choice for many involved in developing high performance code for scientific applications so you might be interested to know that Drew McCormack has just published a new book Scientific Software Development in Fortran. Read More...
PubChem Sketcher
24 12 09 - Filed in: Chemical drawing Cheminformatics
AMBERTools 1.3 Available
22 12 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling
AMBER on Macintosh
22 12 09
Applescript Resources
18 12 09 - Filed in: Applescript Macosx
Scientific Programming Course
15 12 09 - Filed in: Programming Mac OS X
mMass Updated
14 12 09 - Filed in: spectroscopy
The Open Source Mass Spectrometry tool mMass has been updated and now has a new website. Read More...
MacResearch Site Content
13 12 09
Dave on MacResearch has written an article highlighting ways in which users can contribute to the site. Read More...
Data Analysis Tools
11 12 09 - Filed in: data analysis
UCSF Chimera Updated
10 12 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling
A new production release of UCSF Chimera (version 1.4) is now available. Download is free for noncommercial use. The download includes full documentation and tutorials. Read More...
MOE updated
09 12 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling
Chemical Computing Group Inc. (CCG) has just announced the general release of the 2009.10 version of the Molecular Operating Environment (MOE). Read More...
APBS 1.2.1 has been released
03 12 09 - Filed in: computational chemistry
APBS 1.2.1 has been released. This is a bugfix release specifically aimed at addressing a problem with certain nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann calculations. Read More...
Computational Chemistry Scripts
02 12 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics
Possible Books for Christmas
30 11 09 - Filed in: books
APBS Update
19 11 09 - Filed in: Macosx Molecular modeling
Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver (APBS) -- Software for evaluating the electrostatic properties of nanoscale biomolecular systems Read More...
Which Mac OSX version do scientists use
Comparison of the version of Mac OS X used by scientists with that used globally. Read More...
OpenMM released
10 11 09 - Filed in: openCL Molecular modeling
Version 1.0beta of OpenMM has been released, a library which provides tools for modern molecular modeling simulation.
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ChemBioDraw Update
05 11 09 - Filed in: chemdraw Chemical drawing
Changes to Spotlight indexing
04 11 09 - Filed in: snow leopard
It seems that with the Snow Leopard update there have been some changes to the way that Spotlight detects and indexes text files, this causes problems if you have large text files that don’t need to be indexed. Read More...
XplorSeq
01 11 09 - Filed in: bioinformatics
XplorSeq is a software package that facilitates the compilation, management and phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences Read More...
Turbomole Updated
31 10 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling
Version (6.1) of Turbomole, one of the fastest and most stable quantum chemistry programs, has just been released. Read More...
Applescript tutorial 11, Using GeekTool
30 10 09 - Filed in: Applescript
Added Libint
28 10 09 - Filed in: computational chemistry
OrChem
27 10 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics
Mac Mini Server
25 10 09 - Filed in: Apple
Avogadro 1.0 Released
24 10 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics
VMWare Fusion
21 10 09 - Filed in: virtual Machine
Mendeley
20 10 09 - Filed in: Reference Management
KnowledgeMiner (yX) for Excel
20 10 09 - Filed in: data analysis
KnowledgeMiner (yX) for Excel is a knowledge mining tool that works with data stored in Microsoft Excel Read More...
Grand Central Dispatch in FreeBSD
19 10 09 - Filed in: Programming Mac OS X
It was reported at EuroBSDCon 2009 at Robinson College Cambridge that Grand Central Dispatch has been ported to FreeBSD. Read More...
Which TV to buy
08 10 09 - Filed in: Personal
I have to replace our aging TV. After looking around I was wondering about the Toshiba Regza 42AV635DB.
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Reference Management Updates
08 10 09 - Filed in: Reference Management
Please complain
05 10 09 - Filed in: chemdraw
A list of issues using ChemBioDraw 12 under Mac OS X, please use the link to the forum to register your concern. Read More...
RED
04 10 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling
R.E.D. allows computational biologists involved in AMBER/GAFF, CHARMM, GLYCAM & OPLS force field based biological studies to automatically derive highly effective and reproducible charge values, and to build force field libraries for new molecules and molecular fragments. Read More...
Mac, iPhone, Safari Market Share
01 10 09 - Filed in: Marketshare
Zephyr Updated
29 09 09 - Filed in: Mac OS X Molecular modeling
OpenMM Zephyr is a freely available molecular simulation application with an easy-to-use graphical user interface and GPU-acceleration capabilities Read More...
Applescript Movie
27 09 09 - Filed in: Applescript
A training movie describing how to use outlets and actions to connect the interfaces of AppleScript-Cocoa applications under Mac OS X 10.6. Read More...
ChemMobi:- Chem app for iPhone
24 09 09 - Filed in: iPhone Cheminformatics
Uses Symyx, ChemSpider and Discoverygate webservices to access online chemical information. Read More...
Distillation Designer
23 09 09 - Filed in: Chemistry
Distillation Designer provides the simple McCabe-Thiele method for designing binary distillation systems. Read More...
ChemBioDraw 12 Review
18 09 09 - Filed in: chemdraw Chemical drawing
ChemDoodle Demo
18 09 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics
SOMA2
13 09 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling
Grand Central Dispatch
11 09 09 - Filed in: Programming Mac OS X
Grand Central Dispatch now open source and tutorials available.
Grand Central is a new approach to parallelism. It does away with the old threaded models, and replaces it with a packet-based approach. Read More...
Grand Central is a new approach to parallelism. It does away with the old threaded models, and replaces it with a packet-based approach. Read More...
Snow Leopard books etc.
11 09 09 - Filed in: Mac OS X
I just got an email message from Amazon highlighting the range of books and software for Snow Leopard, yet more evidence for the increasing popularity of the platform. Read More...
OpenCL lecture 3
The third of a series of lectures on programming with OpenCL is available on MacResearch Read More...
New Applications
29 08 09 - Filed in: Chemical drawing Cheminformatics
Chemistry on the iPhone
27 08 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics
ChemDoodle Web Components
25 08 09 - Filed in: Chemical drawing Cheminformatics
Snow Leopard out on Aug 28th
25 08 09 - Filed in: Mac OS X
TINKER has been updated
23 08 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling
Vvidget Updated
20 08 09 - Filed in: data analysis
FAF_Drugs2
18 08 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics
Snow Leopard
17 08 09 - Filed in: Mac OS X
It is interesting to see all the items appearing on Amazon with the impending Snow Leopard release Read More...
AMMOS added
17 08 09 - Filed in: docking Molecular modeling
AMMOS (Automatic Molecular Mechanics Optimization for in silico Screening) employs an automatic procedure for energy minimization of protein-ligands complexes Read More...
Applescript Resources
16 08 09 - Filed in: Applescript
Equaliser Updated
11 08 09
Equalizer, is the standard middleware to create and deploy parallel OpenGL-based applications
Read More...FITTED has been updated
11 08 09 - Filed in: docking Molecular modeling
VMD Updated
07 08 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling
Free HPC training courses
07 08 09 - Filed in: multicore
WebMo added
05 08 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling Cheminformatics
Snow Leopard
03 08 09 - Filed in: Mac OS X
Installing Molden
31 07 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics computational chemistry
Gabedit added
28 07 09 - Filed in: computational chemistry
Added Gabedit a graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages to the list of applications Read More...
Another Application added
22 07 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling Mac OS X
The PSI3 suite of quantum chemical programs is designed for efficient, high-accuracy calculations of properties of small to medium-sized molecules. Read More...
New Applications added
21 07 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics
Osra for optical structure recognition and MayChemTools a collection of chemiformatics Perl scripts. Read More...
Balloon Updated
04 07 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling
COSMOtherm now available on Mac
18 06 09 - Filed in: Macosx Molecular modeling
COSMOtherm is a program for the quantitative calculation of solvation mixture thermodynamics based on quantum chemistry. Read More...
AutoDock Vina
11 06 09 - Filed in: docking Cheminformatics
AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading |
WWDC and Core Plot
07 06 09 - Filed in: WWDC Programming
Core plot at WWDC
“Core Plot is intended to be a plotting framework for Mac OS X and iPhone OS. The aim is to provide 2D visualization of data, and is tightly integrated with Apple technologies like Core Animation, Core Data, and Cocoa Bindings.” Read More...
“Core Plot is intended to be a plotting framework for Mac OS X and iPhone OS. The aim is to provide 2D visualization of data, and is tightly integrated with Apple technologies like Core Animation, Core Data, and Cocoa Bindings.” Read More...
LibraryMCS Review
03 06 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics chemaxon
ChemAxon User Group Meeting
28 05 09 - Filed in: chemaxon
Stanford iPhone course downloaded 1 million times.
20 05 09 - Filed in: iPhone
The Stanford iPhone programming course has now been downloaded from iTunes 1 million times. Read More...
CrystalMaker Update
18 05 09 - Filed in: crystallography
iPhone Development
16 05 09 - Filed in: iPhone Programming
Mac Usage at Universities
13 05 09 - Filed in: Marketshare Mac OS X
I’ve tried to keep a track of the Mac usage at universities and what seems clear is the number of Macs on campus is increasing. Read More...
R updated
05 05 09 - Filed in: data analysis
DataGraph 2.0 Update
05 05 09 - Filed in: data analysis
SARchitect
30 04 09 - Filed in: Mac OS X Cheminformatics
SARchitect is a tool for analysing structure activity relationships and ADME/T modeling. Read More...
Marvin and JChem updates
28 04 09 - Filed in: chemaxon Cheminformatics
NMR Application updated
26 04 09 - Filed in: NMR
Social Networking
24 04 09
iPhone Course
20 04 09 - Filed in: iPhone
Developers needed
15 04 09 - Filed in: Mac OS X data analysis
Developers need for project related to the use of the novel technologies in Snow Leopard (including OpenCL and Grand Central) on Nehalem-based Mac Pros to build a Cocoa/Objective C-based large-scale data analysis and visualization application for scientific numerical and image data. Read More...
iPhone Development
11 04 09 - Filed in: iPhone Programming
Apple Refurb Store
11 04 09 - Filed in: Apple
Updates
04 04 09 - Filed in: virtual Machine
University of Virginia Computer Survey
03 04 09 - Filed in: Marketshare
MATLAB R2009a beta for 64-bit Intel-based Macs is now available
01 04 09 - Filed in: data analysis
WWDC09
Apple’s five day Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 takes place on June 8-12 at Moscone West San Francisco, get your ticket by April 24th and save money. Given the huge increase in MacOSX and iPhone development it might be worth booking your slot now, tickets are available from the Apple Online Store.
Remember the WWDC 2009 Student Scholarship provides ADC Student Members and student Team Members in the iPhone Developer University Program the opportunity to get a free pass to attend WWDC.
If you want to submit your application for the 12th Annual Design Awards note the closing date is April 27th.
Remember the WWDC 2009 Student Scholarship provides ADC Student Members and student Team Members in the iPhone Developer University Program the opportunity to get a free pass to attend WWDC.

If you want to submit your application for the 12th Annual Design Awards note the closing date is April 27th.
Applescript Resources
24 03 09 - Filed in: Applescript
Chemistry Dictionary
09 03 09 - Filed in: Chemistry
iBabel 2.6 beta1
01 03 09 - Filed in: iBabel
PC Gamess/Firefly for Mac OS X
27 02 09 - Filed in: Molecular modeling
As of February 23, 2009, the PC GAMESSFirefly team is proud to announce the availability of the first official release of the PC GAMESS/Firefly package for Mac OS X/Intel platform Read More...
New Applications
24 02 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics
Balloon creates 3D atomic coordinates from connectivity data.
ShaEP aligns (superimposes) two rigid 3D molecular structure models. Read More...
ShaEP aligns (superimposes) two rigid 3D molecular structure models. Read More...
New Avogadro release
22 02 09 - Filed in: Cheminformatics Chemical drawing
Papers for iPhone
19 02 09 - Filed in: Reference Management
Copy to mobileme
16 02 09 - Filed in: Applescript
Applescript to copy a file to Mobileme and create an email message with the link. Read More...
ChemAxon UGM
13 02 09 - Filed in: chemaxon Cheminformatics
StatPlus:mac Updated
13 02 09 - Filed in: data analysis
Eurographics 2009
09 02 09
Updates
06 02 09 - Filed in: data analysis
MOE Update
I’ve just written a review of the latest update to the molecular modeling and cheminformatics package MOE Read More...
January Market Share
01 02 09 - Filed in: Marketshare
EnSight
28 01 09 - Filed in: data analysis
News Updates
A collection of software updates Read More...
Update to Mac Usage at Universities
02 01 09
A while back I came across a survey of current and future computer usage from college students, I’ve now updated the table from different universities with data provided by readers. Read More...
December 2009 Mac OS X Share
01 01 09 - Filed in: Apple Marketshare
The December data from Net Applications is in and the Mac OS X share continues to rise and is now up to 9.6% (MacIntel 7.19%; MacPPC 2.43%). This compares with 7.2% in December 2007 and 5.7% in December 2006, at this rate we may see 10% early in 2009 Read More...