ozzie
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CODESSA, AMPAC, DRAGON
If anyone has any of this software, please put the link here!
Thanx!
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Sauron
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Ampac is very little different from MOPAC as both originated as the same project from Michael Dewar's group at UT Austin. Andy Holder of Semichem
Inc. maintains Ampac as a commercial development while J.Stewartn now works for Fujitsu but there are many fine versions of Mopac, freely available on
the Internet from MOPAC 6 ported for Windows to various versions with GUI front ends, and new releases from Stewart.
CODESSA as sold by Semichem is now rather old, almost 15 years, and was developed at the Katritzsky group at UFl in cooperation with the University of
Tartu. A newer version called Codessa Pro has many advantages over the older program. Both require a front end to generate files for creation of
teaching sets to develop QSAR models. Andy Holder has done a good job of pairing Ampac and the old Codessa but Mopac or Gaussian can also be used.
Codessa Pro has very attractive automated functionalities that take a lot of the grunt work out.
The marketing of Codessa Pro seems to be aimed at Big Pharms as they want something like $25,000.
Semichem's pricing to students, academica and individual researchers is far more reasonable. Under $1000 each for Ampac and Codessa.
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