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LigandScout has been updated to verson 3.0. LigandScout has taken a significant leap forward with this update. The introduction of support for ligand-based pharmacophore generation, together with the capability to undertake the virtual screen within LigandScout, whilst maintaining the user friendly interface and workflow are major additions.

If you're like me and you spend most of your time working in the Terminal, you'll really appreciate this great list of Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X shared by clever users at the Super User StackExchange site.

With Safari 5 one of the most interesting new features is the support for Extensions. If you’ve ever used Firefox or Chrome you might be familiar with these. For more details you might want to take a look at Mac OS X Tips, where there is a detailed description and links to useful Extensions.

FieldView is a molecular viewer/editor that is designed to show molecules with their associated Field patterns and physicochemical properties.
http://www.cresset-group.com/product/fieldview

Cresset offered this as a free download for Windows and Linux users, I asked about a Mac OS X version, and here is the response:-

On Tuesday 6th July, 2010, at 10am US Pacific time MacResearch will broadcast a free webcast on developing apps for the iPad. MacResearch's own Alexander Griekspoor and Drew McCormack will be the guests, and will discuss the process of porting Papers and Mental Case to the iPad.

With the iPhone 4 coming out soon, it's time to focus our new poll on... the iPad! We set up a very simple poll so you can tell us if you have an iPad (personal or work use) or if you plan to get one. Please answer the poll located at the bottom of the side bar.

Author: Charles Parnot

TenGrid wiki wiki is a new, open, collaborative collection of tips, techniques and faqs related to setting up and using an Apple Xgrid. You are welcome to add your own informed contributions, as there are still quite a few places that need improvement. TenGrid was started by Charlie Strauss, as a personal pet project which collates the issues he ran into setting up distributed xgrid system. It has the potential to become the best Xgrid resource available, at least a very useful complement to Apple's xgrid-users mailing list and FAQs.

Drew McCormack

I presented a 6 hour workshop at the NSConference developer meetings recently, covering new technologies in Snow Leopard such as Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL. This workshop was recorded as a video course over 3 days, and is now available for download from Mac Developer Network.

An announcement provided by Kevin Theisen. ChemDoodle 3 has been released! Over the last year, we have been working with many individuals from academia and industry to further improve ChemDoodle. Our hard work has resulted in a complete overhaul of the application.

In September, 2009, as part of the Cocoa for Scientists series, I wrote an article on developing a physics-based game on the iPhone called Sumo Master. At the recent NSConference meetings in the UK and US, I gave a one hour presentation based on the article. Video of the talk is now available for purchase via the Mac Developer Network web site.