SoftShell offers many chemistry-related products. These include: ChemWeb, a FREE drawing program for creating Internet Web documents containing structures; ChemWindow, the best-selling chemistry drawing software on the PC; ChemIntosh, state-of-the-art chemistry drawing software for the Macintosh; ChemWindow and ChemIntosh Lite, powerful earlier versions of the drawing software; Carbon-13 Module, for predicting carbon-13 shifts in chemical structures; Mass Spectrometry Calculator, a stand-alone product that calculates formulas for spectral data; The Mass Spectrometry Palette Tool, a tool for studying the fragmentation patterns of structures; The Art of Science and Icons of Science, scientific clip art collections; The Chemical Engineering Symbols, a collection of editable chemical engineering symbols and drawings for creating process flow diagrams; Laboratory Glassware, a collection of editable glassware and equipment drawings; The Structure Library, a database of over 4,500 pharmaceutical and organic structures; The Spell Checker Module, for finding typos in ChemWindow and ChemIntosh documents; Entropy, a personal chemical database program; Bundles that include many of the above products at a low price; SciWords, a scientific spell checker for your word processor; GraphPad Prism, a plotting and curve fitting program designed for ease of use; gNMR, an NMR simulation program; and RxnDriller, a program for learning organic reactions. By the time you read this, there could be more products. Request a copy of the latest SoftShell catalog.
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One of the largest and most dynamic collections of scientific documents is now available on the Internet. Each day, scientists from around the world add hundreds of chemical documents, old and new, to the collection. A section of the Internet, the World Wide Web, offers instantaneous access to these documents-a service that has already begun to challenge conventional print journals. If you are not yet involved in electronic publishing, you will be. And, to make your job easier, SoftShell has created a free Web version of ChemWindow and ChemIntosh called ChemWeb.
ChemWeb is identical to the standard versions of ChemWindow and ChemIntosh except for a few important changes. It is designed for electronic publishing only. It cannot be used to copy and paste graphics to other documents or print to paper. It saves files only in the GIF format, a bitmapped format that is supported by nearly all web document browsers. The GIF files saved by ChemWeb can also be opened and edited by ChemWeb. This makes it possible for Internet users around the world to download the GIF structure files and use them on their own computers.
Using ChemWeb, you can draw structures, save them as GIF files, and add them to HTML documents. Later, another user can download the GIF files with their Web browser, open the GIF in ChemWeb, and edit them just as they would any other ChemWindow or ChemIntosh file. ChemDraw and ISIS/Draw users can also use ChemWeb to convert their structure drawing files into the GIF format for electronic publishing.
How to get the free ChemWeb: just ask or point your web browser at http://www.softshell.com. You must register as a ChemWeb user with SoftShell.
System Requirements: IBM PC or compatible, 386 CPU, 4MB RAM, Hard Disk Drive, Graphics Display, Mouse, Graphics Display, Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Macintosh System 6 or later, 68020 Microprocessor or faster, 4 MB RAM.
ChemWindow is the best-selling chemistry drawing software for personal computers running Windows. The software is designed to help you create typeset-quality chemical structures for reports, papers, and presentations.
ChemWindow is easy to use. In just a few clicks and drags, you can draw almost any structure. And, everything you draw will copy and paste to your favorite word processor. ChemWindow has all the tools for rings, bonds, atoms, chains, arrows, orbitals, brackets, captions, charges and other chemical symbols. You can also make colored transparencies, diagrams, and other illustrations.
Subscripts are automatic and you can use any combination of fonts, type sizes, and type styles anywhere in the document. Despite the advanced features, ChemWindow is still the easiest software package in its class.
Switching to ChemWindow is easy. The software is designed for cross-platform compatibility with Macintosh products. You can open documents from ChemIntosh or ChemDraw (version 2.x, 3.x). MDL molfiles are also supported.
For more information on multiple-copy discounts or network information, please contact SoftShell or your dealer.
System Requirements: IBM PC or compatible, 386 CPU, 4MB RAM, Hard Disk Drive, Graphics Display, Mouse, Graphics Display, Microsoft Windows 3.1.
Thanks to hundreds of beta testers, ChemIntosh has grown into the fastest, most advanced chemistry drawing software available. Because the software understands what you want, you can take shortcuts. ChemIntosh does the busy work, so you don't have to.
In just a few clicks and drags, you can draw typeset-quality structures that copy and paste into your favorite word processor. ChemIntosh has all the tools for rings, bonds, atoms, chains, arrows, orbitals, brackets, captions, charges and other chemical symbols. But don't stop at structure drawings. You can also make colored backgrounds, diagrams, and illustrations. Labeling atoms was once very time consuming, but not in ChemIntosh. Much of the process is automated to save you time. In many cases, you need only strike a single key to draw common atoms and their hydrogens-no tool changes and no dialog boxes. Subscripts are automatic and you can use any combination of fonts, type sizes, and type styles anywhere in the document.
Despite the advanced features, ChemIntosh is still the easiest software package in its class. ChemIntosh helps you do the simple things in less time. Switching to ChemIntosh is easy. You can open documents from ChemWindow or ChemDraw version 2.x or 3.x. There is support for MDL molfiles and ChemIntosh now lets you copy and paste ChemDraw structures directly to ChemIntosh.
For more information on multiple-copy discounts or network information, please contact SoftShell or your dealer.
System Requirements: Macintosh System 6 or later, 68020 Microprocessor or faster, 4 MB RAM.
ChemWindow and ChemIntosh Lite---------------------------------
The Lite version of ChemWindow and ChemIntosh is actually the 2.1.1 version that was so well received. This inexpensive product is designed to help you easily create publication-quality structures for chemical reports and papers. Many people still use version 2.1.1 and are happy with the results.
The software has a simple user interface and all the tools for drawing rings, bonds, atoms, chains, arrows, orbitals, brackets, captions, charges and other symbols. Labeling atoms is easy and the subscripts are automatic.
Without a doubt, the Professional Package of ChemWindow or ChemIntosh is better, but if you're in the market for a drawing program that beats the competition at any entry-level price, you'll love this version. Nothing is missing; there are no incompatibilities; and when you are ready to move up, you'll be sure it's the right thing to do.
For more information on multiple-copy discounts, please contact SoftShell or your dealer.
System Requirements: Windows 3.1, 4MB RAM or Macintosh 68000 Microprocessor or faster, System 6 or later, 2 MB RAM.
Carbon-13 shift predictions are better than ever in SoftShell's C-13 NMR Module v1.2. The software rivals more expensive prediction products allowing researchers to match data to structures in seconds. As a tool for structure elucidation, C-13 NMR analysis is more convenient and accessible to chemists using this product.
System Requirements: ChemWindow 3.0.2 or later or ChemIntosh 3.3.2 or later and 4MB RAM.
MS Calculator---------------------------------------------------
Scientists using mass spectral data can now avoid manual calculations using SoftShell's new MS Calculator. This stand-alone software runs on Windows or Macintosh and calculates all possible formulas for a given mass. The product supports high resolution data, isotopes, and masses over 1,000. Users can narrow the list of formulas by adding a number of other constraints to the calculation.
The MS Calculator is a stand-alone product and does not require ChemWindow or ChemIntosh.
System Requirements: Windows 3.1, 2MB RAM or Macintosh 68000 Microprocessor or faster, System 6 or later, 1 MB RAM.
MS Palette Tool---------------------------------------------------
Scientists can save time matching mass spectral data to structures by using SoftShell's new MS Palette Tool. The software helps researchers explore fragmentation patterns. While dragging a line over a structure, mass and formula are displayed and continuously updated for the fragments on either side of the line.
System Requirements: ChemWindow 3.1 or ChemIntosh 3.4., Windows 3.1 or System 6 or later, and 4MB RAM.
Art of Science------------------------------------------------------
The Art of Science clip art collection will make your documents more interesting and effective. Adding high-quality illustrations to reports, papers, and other documents will ensure that your work is both read and remembered.
The Art of Science is a collection of images created specifically for the scientific community. The collection contains images of scientists and technicians, scientific equipment, animals, insects, planets, spacecraft and scientifically-oriented cartoons.
System Requirements: PostScript printer.
Icons of Science---------------------------------------------------
Improve the look of your scientific documents with the new Icons of Science clip art collection. The illustrations in this collection are perfect for section headings because all the pieces match. Each icon represents a different branch of chemistry or science.
The Icons of Science are high-quality EPS graphics ready for publication. There are more than 100 icons for topics ranging from alkane and cellular studies, to money and graduation, to textiles and petrochemicals.
System Requirements: PostScript Printer.
Chemical and Engineering Symbols---------------------------------
To create process flow diagrams, SoftShell now offers the Chemical Engineering Symbols Collection containing more than 250 modular drawings including towers, heat exchangers, valves, controls, pumps, solids equipment, etc. Drawings can be edited to create more variations. Assembling a publication-ready illustration takes only a few minutes.
System Requirements: ChemWindow 3.1 or ChemIntosh 3.4, Windows 3.1 or System 7 and 4MB RAM.
To illustrate how glassware is assembled, SoftShell now offers a collection of drawings that lets scientists build their own diagrams. The collection contains more than 120 pieces including: flasks, tubes, funnels, adapters, condensers, equipment, containers, etc. Drawings can be edited to create more variations. Assembling a publication-ready illustration takes only a few minutes.
System Requirements: ChemWindow 3.1 or ChemIntosh 3.4, Windows 3.1 or System 7 and 4MB RAM.
The Structure Library----------------------------------------------
SoftShell's new Structure Library is a collection of thousands of pharmaceutical structures. The structures come neatly compressed inside an Entropy Lite database. Each entry is actually a stored document containing only one structure. The documents are completely editable and you can even add to or change the collection any way you want. Structures are retrieved in seconds by searching on common and trade names. All you do is enter the name and Entropy Lite finds the structure.
Entropy Lite comes free when you order the Structure Library. Additional Entropy features let you import all your old documents into the database in one operation.
System Requirements: ChemWindow 3.1 or ChemIntosh 3.4, Windows 3.1 or System 7 and 6MB RAM.
ChemWindow and ChemIntosh do not replace word processors, but most documents will contain words-the kinds of words that are easily misspelled. That's why SoftShell has created a spelling checker that works from within ChemWindow and ChemIntosh.
The dictionary contains more than 50,000 words. Some of the words are common words, but many are scientific words including chemical names, pharmaceutical trade names, laboratory terminology, proper names, etc.
System Requirements: ChemWindow 3.1 or ChemIntosh 3.4, Windows 3.1 or System 6 or later and 4MB RAM.
If you struggle to find things in your card file, if you are buried in sample transfer forms, or if you need an easier way to search through hundreds of structure drawing files, then you need Entropy. Entropy is a database program that stores, compresses, and manages chemical documents-giving order to data that is otherwise unmanageable. Entropy can be customized for many uses. You can store structures, reactions, and other chemical drawings, archive your old structure files, manage your literature references and submission forms, track chemical inventories, record test results, pull structures from the corporate database as MDL SDfiles for a closer look, and much more.
Entropy uses ChemWindow or ChemIntosh as the editors for all records in the database. You can search on text, structures or substructures. Entropy also searches unformatted records. Data can be entered or imported with or without a form. Formatted data can be displayed in custom views for reports.
System Requirements: ChemWindow 3.1 or ChemIntosh 3.4, Windows 3.1 or System 6 or later and 4MB RAM.
There are several money-saving bundles that include some of the above products. The most popular is:
The Professional Bundle--------------------------------------------
The Professional Bundle is a money-saving bundle of four essential products-ChemWindow or ChemIntosh, the Spell Checker Module, the Structure Library, and Entropy Lite.
Drawing software, spell checking, and 4,500 structures are combined in the new Professional version of ChemWindow and ChemIntosh. Designed for novices, the software is guaranteed easy to use, comes with a structure checker, and has speed features not possible in other products.
For information on multiple-copy discounts or network information, please contact SoftShell or your dealer.
System Requirements: Windows 3.1 or Macintosh System 7.x and 6MB RAM.
Ordinary spell checkers are fine if you're writing ordinary documents, but most scientists need more. There are grant proposals, theses, patent applications, new drug applications and more-all using words not found in any standard spell checker. In years past, many scientists have spent hours looking up words, but not anymore.
SciWords contains 75,000 common, and often misspelled words used in chemistry, biology, and physics with an emphasis on pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, pesticides, and biochemical materials. It also includes trade names, trivial names, element symbols, surnames, and common acronyms. SciWords is available on Macintosh, Windows and DOS for either Microsoft Word or WordPerfect.
System Requirements: Requires MS Word or WordPerfect.
Prism is the first graphing software designed for scientists who are more interested in discovery than statistics. Using Prism is like having your own statistics assistant. The software plots, graphs and even helps to analyze your data. Prism is easy to use and produces publication-quality graphics for journal articles, presentations, reports, etc. Despite its simplicity, Prism has many advanced features. Analysis methods include: Nonlinear regression (curve fitting), spline curves, area under the curve, frequency distribution, descriptive statistics by row or column, two-way ANOVA, survival curves, etc. Manipulation methods include: transform, normalize y values, prune rows, subtract (or divide by) baseline, smooth curve, etc. With Prism, you can automate routine analysis and reporting and you don't have to be a programmer to do it. Prism stores all related data-the tables, plots, curves, analysis, and notes-together in a single project file. Changes or additions to the data automatically update the whole file including plots, curves and results. There is no need for batch files or macros.
If you think other graphing software is too complex or if you have never used graphing software before, Prism was designed for you. Thanks to its unique design, Prism can actually teach you how to analyze your data. No other graphing software can offer such a high degree of support. Most of the analysis steps are automated and when the user does need to get involved, built-in hints make the process clear and understandable. Once you are up to speed, the hints are easily disabled.
Unlike the complicated graphing packages that force you to enter data, make graphs, and do page layout in different windows and different files, Prism uses a simple tab system that keeps everything together in one convenient file. All the components are linked so that changes in one area are automatically reflected in all the rest. This makes it easy to correct input errors, repeat experiments, and add additional data to the current project.
System Requirements: IBM PC or compatible, 386 CPU, 4MB RAM, Hard Disk Drive w/ 3 MB free, Microsoft Windows 3.1.
gNMR is a Macintosh application designed to save hours in the analysis of higher-order NMR spectra. The software simulates one-dimensional NMR spectra of single molecules or mixtures, containing as many as 12 different NMR-active nuclei. You can also use it to carry out iterative calculations, in which the program optimizes various parameters (shifts, coupling constants, line widths, etc.) to fit calculated spectra to experimental spectra.
The philosophy behind gNMR is simple; you do all the chemistry thinking, gNMR does all the computational work. The software helps with elucidation in two ways: it predicts spectra from parameters and it determines parameters from spectra. What it does not do is guess at the kind of molecule or spin systems you are working with.
gNMR can perform two established fit procedures-assignment iteration using individual peak positions as the -observed data+ or full-lineshape iteration using a generalized least-squares procedure to fit the whole calculated spectrum to the observed one. gNMR requires high-quality experimental data for full-lineshape curve fitting, but the time it saves you in determining the structure is significant. gNMR comes with a simple utility to help process your data, but it is assumed that your instrument software can do a far better job. To use gNMR effectively, you are responsible for providing correctly phased, transformed, and/or weighted spectra.
gNMR comes with a handy utility to convert spectra to the gNMR format. The formats that can be converted are: Win-NMR, Lybrics, GE-Sun, VNMR, geNMR, and ASCII text files which are produced by most instrument software. As a starting point for the simulation, you can also import structures from ChemIntosh, ChemWindow, ChemDraw, and MDL molfiles. The program includes a primitive shift-prediction facility for H-1, C-13, and P-31 shifts in structures. In addition to simulation, gNMR can do chemical-exchange calculations, both of the intra- and inter-molecular type. You can even use full-lineshape iteration to optimize pseudo-first-order rate constants.
System Requirements: Macintosh System 6.05 or later, 68020 Microprocessor or faster, 4 MB RAM, math coprocessor recommended.
Reaction Driller is a Macintosh application designed for students taking undergraduate organic chemistry courses. The software is a no-nonsense tool for learning and reviewing more than 230 organic reactions. For each reaction there is a detailed drawing of the starting compound and the reagents used. At the touch of a button, you can display the product of the reaction or a short, detailed description.
System Requirements: Macintosh System 6 or later, 68020 Microprocessor or faster, 4 MB RAM, color display recommended.
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