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Are there programs/software packages not mentioned above that you use on a day-to-day basis in your Co-editorial work? Please list these additional programs/software packages below in order of importance, starting with the most important first:
#Response DateResponse Text
1Mar 30, 2011 5:25 PMXDRKplot
2Mar 29, 2011 8:48 PMAdobe Acrobat
3Mar 22, 2011 3:03 PMWINGX ORTEP
4Mar 20, 2011 4:52 PMAtoms (for drawing crystal structures) Findit (ICSD for checking known structures) SciFinder (for checking literature references) Structure Tidy (for standardizing coordinates, useful for checking if a structure was previously known)
5Mar 18, 2011 6:33 PMConquest for the CSD
6Mar 17, 2011 1:09 PMWordPad Diamond Wincoot ORTEP3v2 - Windows WinGX
7Mar 17, 2011 11:42 AMCambridge Structural Database
8Mar 16, 2011 5:03 PMPARST95-97
9Mar 16, 2011 12:46 PMCCDC WEB of Science & Scifinder (references etc.) George Sheldrick's graphics program XP
10Mar 16, 2011 4:30 AMNo
11Mar 16, 2011 3:49 AMhome-written small programs, OLEX2, ConQuest, SciFinder
12Mar 15, 2011 4:06 PMSince I use a MAC, having all of the software available on that platform would be helpful. PLATON is not yet available on OSX, so I have to use another computer. It is very useful but very inconvenient at present.
13Mar 15, 2011 3:44 PMPluton (MS-DOS version), Babel
14Mar 15, 2011 2:35 PMConQuest ACD/Lab XP WinGx X-Win CrystalExplorer
15Mar 15, 2011 1:46 PMQUEST
16Mar 15, 2011 12:22 PMMaterials Studio Diamond Jade GSAS
17Mar 15, 2011 11:26 AMWinGX ConQuest
18Mar 15, 2011 11:15 AMAdobe Acrobat Pro (to compare different versions of articles)
19Mar 15, 2011 10:37 AMWinGX OLEX-2
20Mar 15, 2011 5:31 AMDiamond
21Mar 15, 2011 4:43 AMCrystalMaker
22Mar 15, 2011 1:37 AMCrystalStructure
23Mar 15, 2011 12:40 AMDIAMOND Photoshop SHELXTL ChemDraw
24Mar 14, 2011 11:20 PMExamdiff
25Mar 14, 2011 11:20 PMISOTROPY Programs at BILBAO
26Mar 14, 2011 8:01 PMX-Seed
27Mar 14, 2011 7:14 PMOlex2
28Mar 14, 2011 6:58 PMcheckCIF (web version)
29Mar 14, 2011 6:28 PMI actually use CIF2SX to produce .res from .cif. Perhaps there is something more standard now to be used for this purpose
30Mar 14, 2011 5:51 PMYes, I use them always.
31Mar 14, 2011 5:42 PMPARST ORTEP-3
32Mar 14, 2011 4:59 PMCSD (Conquest and Vista) SHELXTL (XP)
33Mar 14, 2011 4:55 PMWinGX
34Mar 14, 2011 3:56 PMMogul ConQuest
35Mar 14, 2011 3:53 PMCambridge Structural Database ChemBioOffice text editor
36Mar 14, 2011 3:46 PMDiamond ACDLabs ChemSketch
37Mar 14, 2011 3:38 PMMaterial studio visualizer
38Mar 14, 2011 3:38 PMOlex2
39Mar 14, 2011 3:15 PMDIAMOND CSD
40Mar 14, 2011 2:54 PMConquest (Cambridge Structural Database) Chemdraw (mostly to check compound names) Scifinder
41Mar 14, 2011 2:53 PMAdobe Reader
42Mar 14, 2011 2:45 PMDiamond
43Mar 14, 2011 2:23 PMNone
44Mar 14, 2011 2:19 PMGRETEP (for graphics and geometry) VALIST (for valence calculations)
45Mar 14, 2011 2:14 PMDiamond
46Mar 14, 2011 2:06 PMGoogle to check if non IUCr references are correct Cambridge Structural database
47Mar 14, 2011 2:00 PMOLEX2
48Mar 14, 2011 1:58 PMSchakal
49Mar 14, 2011 1:49 PMWINGX
50Mar 14, 2011 1:45 PMDIAMOND RPluto VISTA MOGUL
51Mar 14, 2011 1:42 PMCSD data base: conquest and vista rpluto
52Mar 14, 2011 1:41 PMCambridge Database
53Mar 14, 2011 1:40 PMSHELXTL-Plus (esp. XP) DIAMON
54Mar 14, 2011 1:38 PMAcrobat PRO MS-Word
55Mar 14, 2011 1:35 PMPlaton and SHELX programs is anything I need
56Mar 14, 2011 1:34 PMnotepad
57Mar 14, 2011 1:33 PMORTEP-3 for Windows VALENCE (bond valence sum calculator)
58Mar 14, 2011 1:33 PMCSD suite of programs