Software

This page contains links to sites offering software used in scienctific research as well as in education. Software caon be downloaded from a number of these sites. Such software is either shareware or freeware. Shareware usually requires that you pay the author(s) a fee after a brief trial period. Freeware is software that is distributed free of charge, although some restrictions may apply. A word of caution: it is advisable to have anti-virus software running on your computer whenever you download something from the Internet.


Genetics

Macaw A free program for comparing amino acid and DNA sequences. Mac and PC versions.
NIH Image Home Page Versatile image editing tool. Free.
Software for Genetics Research A general listing of software used in genetics research.
The Really Quite Useful MolBio Page Software and other links.
Vector NTI Viewer A free program for visualizing records from the Genbank database.

Internet Software

Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing "pdf" files.
Eudora Lite Download site for free Eudora Lite e-mail program.
HyperStudio viewer Web site for the popular multimedia authoring program. Now features a plug-in for Netscape that allows users to view HyperStudio presentations though their Web browser.
Netscape Communications Get the latest verson of the Netscape Navigator Web browser and related plug-ins.
PointPlus Plug-in Viewer Plug-in for MS Windows for viewing PowerPoint from within a Web browser.
RealAudio Streaming audio player. Netscape plug-in.
Macromedia Get the Shockwave multimedia plug-in.


Molecular Modeling

Chemscape Chime: Download Download site for the Chime plug-in. Display interactive 3-D molecular models on Web pages.
Chime Resources at UMass Links to reference materials and on-line tutorials for the Chime molecular modeling program.
Molecular Ventures, Inc. Download site for MacMolecule and PCMolecule software. Provides a library of hundreds of small molecules for viewing.
RasMol Stand-alone molecular modeling program.
RasMol V2.6-beta-2/Chime 0.99 Manual Reference materials for Chime and RasMol.

Shareware Catalogs

Arabidopsis Shareware / Freeware
Tucows "The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software"
CNET.COM PC stuff
Macworld Online Mac stuff