WWW Computational Chemistry Resources

This list of resources is designed to provide computational chemists, students and other people interested in the CAUT Computational Chemistry project with a list of useful web sites related to computational chemistry and molecular modelling.

This list is not intended to be a definitive list of chemistry pages on the web, but rather to provide links to some of the more most useful sites on the Web.

Please let us know of any changes or suggestions for this list.

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The resources are divided into:

  1. General chemistry
  2. Chemistry education
  3. Computational chemistry Resources
  4. Molecular modelling
  5. Computational Chemistry software Sites
  6. Java and VRML for Computational Chemistry
  7. Professional Societies and Conferences
  8. Some Australian web sites
  9. Other interesting WWW sites
  10. WWW search engines and General FTP sites
  11. Mailing lists
  12. USENET Newsgroups
  13. The URL update form
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Interesting general chemistry resources

The Australian Chemistry Network

Beilstein Information Systems

The Free University, Berlin Chemistry Index (very comprehensive)

The Yahoo Chemistry Index

Chemistry Databases

Links for Chemists; University of Liverpool including World Wide Web Virtual Library: Chemistry

The Information Retrieval in Chemistry

The SDSU Chemistry Information Reference

Silicon Graphics' Chemistry and Biological Sciences resources

WebElements - The periodic table via WWW

MIME types for Chemistry

Network Science - an electronic journal for those in the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries

A guide to implementing Chemical MIME

YARLYet An other Resource List

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Chemistry education resources

VisChemVisualising the molecular world

Teaching guide X-ray diffraction

MultiCHEM

Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics

Global Instructional Chemistry

Quantum Chemistry Lecture Notes

Hartree-Fock theory notes

Instructional Software for Chemistry - Educational resources for computer-aided chemistry teaching

The Journal of Chemical Education

Mike Colvin's Quantum Chemistry Class

Martindale's: Chemistry The "virtual" - chemistry center

Molecular Monte Carlo

NCSA Computational Chemistry Software Packages

The Principles of Protein Structure course

The Silicon Graphics Teaching Laboratory

Uniserve - Australian Science Teaching Resource

1996 Chemistry Education Conference; New Initiatives in Chemical Education.

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Computational chemistry resources

ACS Division of Compu/ters in Chemistry

ACS Division of Physical Chemistry

Richard Bader's Theory of Atoms and Molecules.

Biocomputing and Molecular Modelling at the University of Zurich

David Sherill's Brief Review of Elementary Quantum Chemistry

The CCL Computational Chemistry List home page

The CCL Computational Chemistry Mailing List

The CCL Computational Chemistry Archives

The CCL Computational Chemistry related sites list

CML Chemical Markup Language

Computational chemistry at CSC (Finland)

The EMSL Gaussian Basis Set order form

Computation, Computers and Mathematics projects at Sandia National Laboratories

Mike Colvin's on-line ab initio quantum chemistry laboratory

NCSA Computational Chemistry Group

QCPE Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange

"Relativistic Theory of Atoms and Molecules I-II" database

Reviews in Computational Chemistry

Richard Rothwell's home page - molecular and molecular orbital graphics

David Young's selected Topics in Computational Chemistry

The University of Georgia's Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry

World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC)

Mathematical Challenges from Theoretical/Computational Chemistry

Practical Exercises in Quantum Chemistry at ETH Zürich

Quantum Theory Project; An Institute for Theory and Computation in Molecular and Material Sciences.

Informal Collaboration for Computational Chemistry Software Design and Reuse

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Molecular modelling resources

Automatic format conversion of molecular structure files by Corina

The Protein Data Bank

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

The Chemist's Art Gallery

Computational Biochemistry Research Group in Zurich Programs include AllAll (phylogenic trees), MultAlign etc

Concepts in Science through Molecular Modelling

EMBL The European Molecular Biology Laboratory

EMBL Scientific Computational Facilities and Services including BLAST, FASTA, DALI, PREDICTPROTEIN

The Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design

Journal of Molecular Modeling at Springer-Verlag and at the University of Erlangen

TMMeC The Molecular Modeling Electronic Conference; a Peer reviewed web chemistry journal

MathMol: What is Molecular Modelling?

Molecular Biology Resource

NAB - The Nucleic Acid Builder

The NCBI Structure group

NCSA BIOLOGY WORKBENCH

Center for Molecular Modeling at NIH

PDB at a glance

Protein Science - the electronic journal of the Protein Society

Protein Sequence Analysis and Structure Prediction at BMERC

The UCSF Computer Graphics Laboratory

University of Reading, Chemistry Department - Computational Chemistry and Modelling Group

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Computational Chemistry software sites

Almond Generation of molecular descriptors for QSAR

ACES II Advanced Concepts in Electronic Structure

ADF Amsterdam Density Functional program

ALP-vibro Animation of the normal modes of molecular vibrations from Gaussian 98 calculations

AMBER - Molecular simulation programs

ATMOL an ab initio program

AutoDock Automated Docking of Flexible Ligands to Macromolecules

Babel - file format converter (ftp site) at CCL and Babel Home Page

Biochemical Algorithms Library Biochemical Algorithms Library

Biomer a Java-based, on-line biomolecular modeling package

Bodil ; biomolecular visualization and modeling

BOSS Biochemical and Organic Simulation System

CACTVS A Chemistry Algorithm Development Environment

CADCOM molecular modeling for the bench chemist

CADPAC -- The Cambridge Analytic Derivatives Package

CambridgeSoft Corporation (ChemDraw etc)

CAMO Software: specialises in multivariate data analysis software, in particular Unscrambler

Chem3D from CambridgeSoft

Chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology software for Silicon Graphics computers

Chemistry software from the Australian Chemistry Network

ChemSketch from ACD

ChemViz Chemistry Visualization program at NCSA

Cn3D See in Three-Dee for the Macintosh

COLUMBUS general ab initio electronic structure calculations

COSMO-RS computational chemistry software for problems of solvation and the liquid phase

CPMD Car-Parrinello ab-initio molecular dynamics

CRUNCH Computaional Resources for Understanding Chemistry

CRYSTAL - ab initio electronic structure calculations on periodic systems.

CrystalMaker Real-time crystallography for personal computers

DALTON; Program for ab initio calculation of molecular properties by SCF, MP2 and MCSCF.

Deep View Swiss-Pdb Viewer

DeFT - A gaussian density functional program. An old version (1995) available via ftp from The Computational Chemistry Archive. Linux compilation details from Valentin Ananikov

DINO ; a realtime 3D visualization program for structural biology data

DOCK docking molecules

EASY-FIT parameter estimation (data fitting, system identification, nonlinear regression)

EHT Extended Huckel Theory

Equipotential Surfaces and E Lines Equipotential Surfaces

EyeChem - Explorer modules for molecular modelling

ExPASy Access Swiss-Model Automated Protein Modelling Server, Prosite databases etc

FlexX automatic prediction of receptor-ligand interactions

Fungimol An extensible system for designing atomic-scale objects

GAMESS (US) - general ab initio program

GAMESS (UK) - general ab initio program; not the same program as above.

GAP (Geometric analysis programs)

Garlic free molecular visualization program

Gaussian: The Official Home Page

GDIS Display and manipulation of isolated molecules and periodic systems

Ghemical computational chemistry software package released under the GNU GPL

Golpe Generating Optimal Linear PLS Estimations for QSAR

gOpenMol - Graphics Interface to the OpenMol programs

GRAMM Global Range Molecular Matching

GRASP Graphical Representation and Analysis of Structural Properties

GROMACS Molecular Dynamics on Parallel Computers

GROMOS Dynamic Modelling of Molecular Systems

Gulp Simulation on 3D periodic solids, gas phase clusters and isolated defects

HASL Hypothetical Active Site Lattice method for 3D-QSAR

HBPLUS Hydrogen Bond Calculation Program

Huckel Calculator for WIndows 95 & NT

HYDRO calculation of hydrodynamic properties

HyperCube - HyperChem, ChemPlus and HyperNMR

Jmol An open Source molecule viewer and editor

JMV Java Molecular viewer

JSV Java Structure viewer

LAMMPS Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator

LigBuilder Building of ligands for drug design

LIGPLOT Program for automatically plotting protein-ligand interactions

Linux4Chemistry Chemistry Software available for use with Linux

Linux and Chemistry

MacroModel - Molecular Modelling

Mercury Crystal Structure Visualisation and Exploration

MDL Products - including Chime, ISIS/Draw and ISIS/Base

MOE Molecular Operating Environment

Mol2Mol - chemical file converter and geometry utilities

MolcasQuantum chemistry software at Lund University

MOLDEN visualization of molecular and electronic structure

MOLDRAW Molecules and crystals on a personal computer

Molecule for Macintosh which can also run on a PC using ARDI's Executor

The Molecular Modelling Toolkit

MolEdit an editor for quantum chemistry input files

MOLEKEL an interactive molecular graphics program in OpenGl

MOLGEN Structure generation. MolGen - Molecular modelling for PCs; available by ftp

MOLMOL a molecular graphics program

MolPOV a graphics file converter for POVRAY

MolPro an ab initio package by H.-J. Werner and P. J. Knowles

MoluCAD molecular modeling and visualization tool

MSI/Biosym Molecular Modelling Software

MOLSCAT - Quantum non-reactive molecular scattering program

Molscript - molecular graphics as Postscript files

MOLTRA Molecular Properties Optimization

MolView and Molview Lite - Molecular rendering for the Macintosh

Moviemol - the molecular animation program

MSI/Biosym home page - Molecular Modelling software

MOMIX Software for electron population and MO analysis

MultiSimplex - for rapid experimental optimization

NAB molecular manipulation language

NAMD A parallel, object-oriented molecular dynamics for large biomolecular systems

The NIH software index

Open Babel an open source version of the Babel chemistry file translation program

OpenMol OpenMol Community

ORAC A molecular dynamics program to simulate solvated biomolecules

Oxford Molecular computer-aided chemistry and bioinformatics software

PEP Protein Electrostatics.

PMD - Parallel Molecular Dynamics which is archived at CCL

PCMODEL small molecule modeling program

PovChem Chemical Imaging using Persistence of Vision ray (POV-RAY) tracing

PovChem Combining chemistry and ray tracing

PredictProteinSequence analysis, and structure prediction

Prometheus Software for Molecular Design

PSIPRED Protein Structure prediction server

PSI 2.0 - Wavefunction Evaluator

PSI88 molecular orbital plotting package

Python source code for computational chemistry

PyMol A molecular graphics system with an embedded Python interpreter

Q-Chem, the Program

QikProp predictions for physically-significant descriptors and pharmaceutically-relevant properties of neutral organic molecules

QSAR Builder QSAR and QSPR evaluation and analysis

Rasmol - Molecular visualisation program:

Raster3D - 3D molecular graphics generator

Re_View - Dynamic reaction data visualization and analysis tool

Ribbons Ribbon Diagrams to show protein structure

Schrödinger Inc. - Electronic structure software

SciAn Scientific Visualization and Animation for Silicon Graphics workstations

SCULPT; molecular modeling system

SimChemistry molecular dynamics simulation for chemistry teaching

Software Reviews from the CTI Centre for Chemistry

SOLPRO prediction of Solution Properties of rigid macromolecules and bioparticles

SPROUT de novo ligand design

STALK, A Molecular Docking System

Swiss-Pdb Viewer also known as Deep View

Steric: A program to calculate molecular steric effects

TINKER package for molecular mechanics and dynamics

TOPOS geometrical and topological analysis of crystal structures

TransCube, TransFreq, Molnf Programs for visualising Gaussian 94 output and Scientific Visualisation

SYBYL - software from Tripos

TURBOLMOL ab initio electronic structure calculations -mainly on the SCF level of theory

Unisoft A Program Package for Lattice-Dynamical Investigations

UPACK construction of crystal structures

VEGA Molecular Software package

Viseur visualize G Protein-Coupled Receptors

Wavefunction Inc. - makers of Spartan, etc.

WHAT IF protein structure analysis program

UNICHEM molecular modeling package

VIEWMOL graphical front end for some quantum chemical and molecular modelling programmes

VOLSURF 2D molecular descriptors from 3D interaction energy grid maps

VMD - Visual Molecular Dynamics

WebMO World Wide Web-based interface to computational chemistry packages

XMakemol a program for viewing and manipulating atomic/molecular systems

XmMol an X11 macromolecular visualization and modeling tool

XMol - An X Windows-based molecule rendering and animation package

ZoomSeq Sequence based display and analysis features for VMD using TCL

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Java and VRML for Computational Chemistry

Java information and Java applets

Chemical Java - Examples and Tutorials

Java applet for structure viewingJava Structure Viewer

Scientific Java simulations

Java molecular modelling example #1

Java molecular modelling example #2

Java molecular modelling example #3

Java crystals and software from Steffen Weber

Equation rendering using Java

The Application of Java to Chemistry

Indiana University Molecular Structure Center

Lennard-Jones Potential Java applet

Chemical examples of VRML (virtual reality)

VRML in Chemistry at Darmstadt

Xtal-3d VRML 3D-visualisation

VRML A Crystallographer's Guide to Internet Tools and Resources

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Professional Societies and Conferences

Chemistry Societies' Network

The Royal Australian Chemical Institute

Royal Society of Chemistry

American Chemical Society

The New Zealand Institute of Chemistry

IUPAC

Chemistry conferences

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Some Australian web sites

Guide to Australia

The Annotated Australian Address Book

The Australian web site listing

The Little Aussie Web Wombat Australian Search Engine! - specifically for Australian Web Sites

ANU Bioinformatics hypermedia service

The four universities involved in the CAUT Computational Chemistry Project:

Northern Territory University

Swinburne University of Technology

The University of Tasmania

The Victorian College of Pharmacy (Monash University)

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Other interesting sites

PharmInfoNet - Pharmaceutically related information

The Numerical Algorithms Group

New Scientist: Planet Science

The Globewide Network Academy

Virtual reality via the WWW - VRML at NCSA

The Best of the Web contest

Popular web browser home pages:

Are you having problems viewing graphics and movies?
Have a look at the 'Properly setting your web browser' tutorial.

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Web search tools and General FTP Sites