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Macromolecular Computer Facility

Kaillathe Padmanabhan, PhD, Manager      202 Biochemistry     Phone: 353-0814      padmanab@msu.edu
Hours: 9am-5pm (Monday-Friday)

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Programs installed in the Computer Facility:

PC

Acrobat (pdf creation)
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Canvas
Corel Draw Graphics Suite
ChemDraw
ImageQuant
Microsoft Office
Oligo
OmniPage OCR
Origin (graphing program)

MAC (running OS X)
Acrobat
Illustrator
Photoshop
MS Office

Linux
Accelrys Insight II Suite and Discovery Studio
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)
CCP4
Chemstation
CNS
Discovery Studio (replaces Insight II package)
GRASP
HKL Data Processing
InsightII will continue to be licensed or will be updated at higher cost to Discovery Studio (including molecular design software) depending on users’ interest in learning the new software.
MassLynx
Matlab (Teaching licenses available on all Linux workstations. Two regular licenses also available.
"O"
PyMol
Protein Data Bank
Simca-P
VMD
Other software can be installed on request.

Departmentally licensed software:
ChemDraw Std. available soon for $80 for each PC.
Origin – available to labs for ~$50 for each PC.
PyMol - full-function, full-support version for the next 3 years, contact Pappan for free access.

Available at reduced cost at MSU Computer Store:
Adobe Creative Suite: includes Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat Professional
EndNote
MatLab student version
Mathematica
SAS
MS Office
Canvas

Available from the RTSF: DNAStar Lasergene
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