[ale] Any Chemical types here?

[Jim Kinney]

left out Avagadro. It does 3D that is rotate-able using grab axes.
automatically plops in methane groups like they're free :-) Pretty easy to
build complex (think 10-20 carbon units) but also has a menu to add groups
like fatty acids and peptides and sugars, etc

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> xdrawchem is the tool you're looking for. Creates 2D images with the
> wedge-shaped bond lines for the 3d-look as in text books. gchempaint is
> another one similar that is gnome-centric. xdrawchem is "old school motif
> looking" :-)
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> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Tom Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>wrote:
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>> I have put this off longer that sanity suggests is safe: Anybody on this
>> list use one of the open source chemical structure editors on a regular
>> basis? Which one suits you best, given your needs?
>>
>> Back story:
>>
>> I start teaching a freshman level Organic/Biochem class to a crowd of
>> community college students in another week and change. I need a structure
>> editor with which to create chemical structures for import to
>> OpenOffice which is my currently chosen document creation solution (buzz
>> word central - sorry). For at least the first session, I will need to
>> create 50-60 molecular structures a week, on the budget of an adjunct
>> teacher at a state school (ie. no budget at all). Worse (in a way) it is a
>> small school, and I'm the only chemical type on staff at all. All my
>> chemical/education contacts are Windows types, and thus not terribly
>> useful in this case.
>>
>> Currently, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on the laptop, and Fedora 13 on the
>> desktop without development systems on either. I know how to get the
>> developement systems working under Fedora, but I've been less successful
>> with Ubuntu.
>>
>> Any clues running around the list?
>>
>> Thanks for the assistance in advance people. Even if I cann't get to
>> Atlanta functions, this is an awesome resource here!
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