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Latest Issue: Winter 2006
Contact Grace Baysinger,
graceb@stanford.edu,
to receive The Catalyst by e-mail.
Contents
- ChemDraw Standard Site License for Stanford
- Chemistry Database Workshops Being Held at Lane
- NYAS’ Science Alliance — Free Membership for Grads & Postdocs
- 3D Structure Viewing in SciFinder Scholar
ChemDraw Standard Site License for Stanford
2006 Jan. 5
I am pleased to announce that the Stanford University Libraries and Academic
Information Resources (SU*LAIR) / Academic Computing has paid for a campus-wide
site license to ChemDraw Standard, a version of the popular chemical drawing
program by CambridgeSoft. The URL to download it is at:
http://scistore.cambridgesoft.com/sitelicense.cfm?sid=188
This site license allows all current Stanford students, faculty, and staff to
download the program FOR FREE to their home, office, or personal computer. Users
must have an email address that ends with:
- @stanford.edu
- @slac.stanford.edu
- @globalecology.stanford.edu
Note that after downloading, no Internet connection is required for use. The
license key you will receive as part of the registration process does include a
timer that corresponds to the time frame of the annual site license agreement.
Chemistry Database Workshops Being Held at Lane
2006 Jan. 13
I just wanted to let you know that I’m doing some workshops on chemistry
databases at Lane. All sessions will be held in their Computer Lab — Room M202.
You are most welcome to attend. Note that registration is required. They include:
- Overview of Chemistry Tools and Databases for Life Scientists
- Wed, Jan 18, 5:00 – 6:30 pm
- Easy-to-Use Tool for Chemical Literature and Structure
Searching: SciFinder Scholar
- Wed, Jan 25, 5:00 – 6:30 pm
- Locating Properties, Reactions, and Chemical Structures with
Beilstein and Gmelin Crossfire
- Wed, Feb 8, 5:00 – 6:30 pm
- Locating Bioactivity, Metabolism and Synthesis Information
With MDL Academic Package
- Wed, Feb 15, 5:00 – 6:30 pm
For more information as well as a list of all their Winter Workshops and Tours,
please see:
http://lane.stanford.edu/classes/index.html
NYAS’ Science Alliance — Free Membership for Grads & Postdocs
2006 Jan. 13
Falconer and Swain Libraries are supporting graduate students and postdocs
in the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Chemical
Engineering for membership in the New York Academy of Sciences on a trial
basis through May 31, 2006. At that time we will evaluate the success of
the program.
The FREE membership sign-up process is simple. Go to
http://www.nyas.org/stanford
and complete the online registration form. Your NYAS membership certificate
and ID card will be sent to you by post along with related Academy
materials. Once your membership is processed, an email from the Academy
will be sent with your username and temporary password for online access.
Your membership benefits include:
- Exclusive access to all of the 200+Academy eBriefings described below;
- Free access to Academy meetings and discounts on Academy conferences; and
- Unrestricted access to Annals Online, the Academy's searchable database of
downloadable scientific articles.
For close to 200 years the Academy has been convening groups of scientists
from around the world to communicate about critical issues. Its members
have included Darwin, Einstein, Pasteur, Edison, Bell, Huxley, Pauling, and
other leaders in science. Today, 16 Nobel Laureates are members of the
NYAS President's Council. You can peruse the full list of Nobel laureates
and other leaders at this URL:
http://www.nyas.org/about/ceoCouncil.asp.
The Academy recently initiated two new programs: “Frontiers of Science” and
“Science Without Borders.” Through the Frontiers initiative, the New York
Academy of Sciences hosts more than 140 meetings and conferences of
scientists throughout the United States in areas where today’s most
exciting research is being done: chemical biology, emerging infectious
diseases, systems biology, genomic medicine, nanobiotechnology,
neurodegenerative diseases, and RNAi. Coming soon will be events in cancer
and signaling and diabetes and obesity. You can read more about what the
Academy is doing in these areas, and others, at:
http://www.nyas.org/programs/channels.asp.
A special advantage of Academy membership is that those who cannot
personally attend its meetings can read free reports of these events within
six weeks of the meeting. The Academy calls these reports “eBriefings”
because they provide scientists who are normally too busy to visit webcasts
with the most important highlights of each speaker’s talk. For those
wishing to dig more deeply, there are PowerPoint presentations and entire
transcripts as well as additional links to other resources, all posted
online.
The Academy now has more than 200 eBriefings online. The searchable audio
and slides provide almost as rich an experience as actually being present
— and these are exclusively available to members. You can sample a
selection of the best eBriefings at
http://www.nyas.org/prespick.
With Academy membership you will also be joining thousands of graduate
students and postdocs around the world who are part of the Science Alliance
of Graduate Students and Postdocs. The Science Alliance provides
mentoring, networking, and career development for young investigators
through local events, eBriefings, and a resource-filled web portal. Visit
http://www.nyas.org/sa
for more details.
The Falconer and Swain Libraries are supporting your membership this year
on a trial basis. We hope you will take advantage of this new source of
science research, much of it from leading scientists reporting on their
work prior to publication. Later, we hope you will let us know about its
value.
3D Structure Viewing in SciFinder Scholar
2006 Jan. 13
It is possible to view most of the chemical substances in SciFinder Scholar
in 3D and saved as .mol files for personal use. Accelrys’ software program
ViewerLite is the 3D viewer. Please note that the viewer is only available for
PCs, not Macs. See instructions below:
Downloading the Program
Installing the Program
Initializing ViewerLite with Windows Operating System
- After installing ViewerLite, launch it and open one of the .mol files
stored in the program. Viewing one of the structures within ViewerLite
completes the registration process with the Windows Operating System.
This step must be done in order for ViewerLite to work within SFS.
Viewing 3D Structures in SFS
- Do test search in SFS (e.g. Locate by Substance Identifier using CAS
Registry Number 58-22-0).
- Look for upside down “Mickey Mouse” shaped icon in brief
structure display, click on it to view structure in 3D. Use View menu
bar to change the display style (e.g. ball and stick). Structure can
be saved as .mol file for viewing outside SFS.
Please contact me if you need further assistance.
Grace Baysinger
Head Librarian & Bibliographer, Swain Library of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/index.html
Head, Science and Engineering Libraries Resource Group
