Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics Radboud University Nijmegen

CMBI offers Cheminformatics services (programs and databases) for (primarily) Dutch academic scientists working in the areas of organic and inorganic chemistry and of materials science.

Amongst others, our Cheminformatics tools include:

• programs to plan syntheses (LHASA) and to model molecules (SYBYL)
• comprehensive literature databases, such as Beilstein and Gmelin under the CrossFire system, and a selection of synthetically useful reactions under the ISIS system
• the available chemicals directory (ACD) with supplier information, also under ISIS
• databases with 3D crystallographic structures: CSD (organic) and ICSD (inorganic).

A more detailed description can be found on a separate page. The large and sometimes expensive programs and databases mentioned above are maintained on our system to serve the Dutch academic community. A username can be obtained by completing a registration form. Some of the applications (CrossFire, ISIS) require that you download client software, others may require X-Windows (X11) or other terminal emulation (see the access page for details).

The licence costs are paid jointly by an academic consortium of all participating universities. One exception is the Cambridge Crystal Structure Database, which is available to outsiders: academics from continental Europe have free, if limited, access (5 CPU minutes/month), after filling in a registration form. The visualization program MOLDEN can be downloaded from the author's pages.