(REVISED 4/16/2008) Miami has purchased an annual site license for ChemDraw and some related software through CambridgeSoft. If you have an @muohio.edu email, you are now able to download this software and have access to related online databases.
The MU license is for the products “ChemOffice Ultra” (for PC) and “ChemDraw Ultra 11.0” (for Mac). There are unfortunately some differences between the two products: ChemOffice for PC contains (amongst other tools) ChemDraw and BioDraw for creating high-quality drawings (cartoons) of an assortment of chemical and biological objects. However, ChemDraw Ultra for Mac only includes the chemistry tools (and some runt biology tools that aren't much use).
To download, go to:
http://scistore.cambridgesoft.com/sitelicense.cfm?sid=800
ChemDraw and BioDraw together provide an easy way to draw presentation-quality diagrams of chemical structures and reactions, metabolic pathways, membrane bilayers, enzymes and signal transduction effectors, and more. They can be a useful tool for researchers and students in preparing presentation slides and figures for publication. We previously had a few copies of these tools on our computers at Brill (and still do for those who don't have ready access to a PC), but the University-wide purchase is an obvious step ahead.
