Courses in the UCI Molecular Modeling Facility

Orientation A two-hour introduction to the capabilities of the Modeling Facility

Intro to Unix and the SGI environment Topics will include how to use the operating system and thus make full use of the Facility computers.

Intro to Ab Initio Spartan and Beyond Users will learn when to use Ab Initio or semi-empirical electronic structure methods (Spartan, Gaussian) instead of molecular mechanics.

Using the Cambridge Structure Database We will discuss the contents of the Cambridge Structure Database (CSD) and will work through a number of the most important methods of searching the database.

Getting Started with MSI's Insight and Discover** In this tutorial you will learn basic operation of Insight and Discover to build, optimize and display small molecules and proteins.

Getting Started With MacroModel** Users will learn basic operations in MacroModel for molecule building, display, conformational searching and minimization.