Adept Scientific has announced the availability of Chembiooffice 2010, the latest release of Cambridgesoft Corporation's full suite of integrated scientific desktop applications.
Designed to aid individual chemists and biologists at their desktops, Chembiooffice also provides a shared solution for scientists across an institution.
Chembiooffice 2010's three core applications - Chembiodraw, Chembio3D and Chembiofinder/Chembioviz - remain at the heart of the Chembiooffice Ultra 2010 suite.
Developments in Chemdraw include improvements to the Name Sequence tool, Biodraw pathway templates, rotation about arbitrary centres, Chemscript integration, support for full RBG colour, and more.
Chembio3D adds Stochastic Conformational Analysis; the MMFF94 force field is enhanced to use multiple processors for calculations, a fast multi-pole method for electrostatics, truncation approximations and a user-settable dielectric constant.
Chembiofinder/Chembioviz now features clustering and integration with Statistica Base for more in-depth statistical analysis.
Other features in the collection include desktop versions of Cambridgesoft's Enterprise applications E-Notebook, Bioassay, Inventory and access to a number of online databases such as ChemACX (for up-to-date product information from more than 500 chemical vendors) and the Chemindex compound reference database.
Partner applications MNova-Lite (visualisation and analysis of NMR data) and Statistica Base (data analysis) and a host of other tools round out the integrated solution.
Chembiodraw provides structural drawing, analysis and querying for chemists and offers biologists their own tools for drawing and annotating biological pathways.
With integration a key objective, Chemdraw and Biodraw documents use the same native file formats, ensuring information can be communicated between different teams of scientists and exported for use in presentations and publications.
Chembio3D provides molecular modelling and graphical visualisation of small molecules and proteins involved in chemical and biological processes.
For macromolecules, Chembio3D can render cartoon depictions of proteins and nucleic acids in order to carry out state-of-the-art protein visualisation on the desktop.
It also provides interfaces to Gamess, Gaussian, Schrodinger's Jaguar and the latest Mopac.
Chembioviz with Chembiofinder provides a visualisation tool to correlate chemical data with biological activity.
Features include descriptive statistical results shown on plots and compound profiles, a way of visually comparing and ranking structures based on values of selected properties.
Tying the applications together is Chembioscript, a chemical Python extension language from Cambridgesoft that provides a set of classes and methods for working with atoms, bonds and the other properties of molecules, reactions and 3D models.
