Bio-Rad offers free, downloadable chemistry drawing, publishing, and spectroscopy applications for academics: students, teachers, and researchers at any level
Bio-Rad Laboratories has announced the release of the KnowItAll informatics system, Academic Edition, a free, downloadable, fully-functional software package for chemical structure drawing, publishing, and spectroscopic analyses.
The KnowItAll Academic Edition enables users to draw structures in 2D and 3D, perform IR and Raman functional group analysis, process IR, NMR, and Raman spectra, access the renowned Sadtler spectroscopy handbooks, and generate high-quality laboratory reports.
This software is offered exclusively to the academic community as a part of Bio-Rad's continued commitment to promote learning and research initiatives in academia, providing the latest and most advanced software technology and databases for inquiry-based learning in organic and analytical chemistry.
"Increasingly, universities are incorporating software programs and databases within their chemistry departments and curricula", said Gregory M Banik, general manager.
"As a former lecturer at Northwestern University, I know how valuable Bio-Rad's products will be in an educational setting, and as a former student, I knew and trusted the Sadtler and Bio-Rad names. "Our education initiative allows us to extend and deepen the many excellent relationships that we currently enjoy with professors and publishers throughout the world," continued Banik.
"Also, since KnowItAll was named best spectroscopy software in Scientific Computing and Instrumentation magazine's 2001, 2002, and 2003 Reader's Choice Awards, professors can be assured that the KnowItAll Academic Edition offers them the very best".
The software and database tools in the KnowItAll Academic Edition can be used by students, teachers, and researchers at any level.
They work particularly well in the organic chemistry curriculum to teach students fundamentals of structure and bonding and spectroscopy as well as in the analytical chemistry curriculum to teach advanced spectroscopy and spectrometry techniques.
In particular, Bio-Rad's software tools for IR and Raman functional group analysis allow students to approach these sometimes hard-to-grasp concepts in a way that is both visual and interactive, thus making the learning experience understandable and memorable.
The KnowItAll Academic Edition includes free on-line training movies to teach professors and students how to use and get the most out of the software.
The following applications and features are included in the KnowItAll Academic Edition.
DrawIt for chemical structure drawing.
ReportIt to generate high-quality lab reports. AnalyzeIt IR and Raman to analyse experimental data with spectral interpretation tools.
ProcessIt NMR to import and process spectra from various instrument sources.
Sadtler Spectroscopy Handbooks - Internet Edition.
SymApps for molecular symmetry analysis. General laboratory calculations.
