SERC Computing Facility: Softwares

HyperChem, the first molecular modeling product for Microsoft Windows, essentially introduced 3D molecular graphics on the PC.The new release of HyperChem (7.5) contains a considerable enhancement of the products ability to deal with protein and biomolecular structures. Release 7.5, automatically extracts secondary structure information from Protein Data Bank files and renders proteins with a variety of new OpenGL renderings of these secondary structures cylinders, ribbons, sheets, coils, etc

Availability

HyperChem version 7.5 is installed on windows machines at SERC(I Floor) The License server for HyperChem software is placed at Room no-109 and the client may be anyone in the campus. Licence Server is sunayana.serc.iisc.ernet.in. Only 25 clients can connect to this license server at a time (one user can open many client connections and hog the license). The availability of licenses can be checked using lsmon and lswhere in the admin subdirectory of Hyperchem installation.

Procedure to use HYPERCHEM SOFTWARE SUITE

At present this software is on a Windows 2000 server. The HyperChem CD is available in SERC Room no 103 along with installation instructions. Click here to download installation instructions.

Problems and Solutions

In order to use Hyperchem software on a Windows machine, one needs to click:
start->program files->Hypercam Release 7.5->HyperChem Professional

For further assistance, please contact HelpDesk@SERC by E-mail or phone (#444 within SERC).