Free developmental biology software for mac

Requirements:
PowerPC, System 7.5.1 or later, Open Transport, QuickTime 4.0 or later.

DNA Artist X 1.0 is a program including small Molecular Biology programs. You can do things like search for Compatible Enzyme ends or do a PCR Melting point temperature calculation with different formulas, or you can run a Digest Preview of an Agarose Gel etc.

DNA Artist is an Internet Application, which means it works like an Internet browser (e.g. Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer).

The Application Navigator is the central access point of DNA Artist,it connects to the Internet and downloads small files, which are interpreted from the application and compiled into a form that you can actually use these modules as individual programs.

wEMBOSS is a web interface for the EMBOSS software package for molecular biology.
wEMBOSS features includes a private workspace for each user where they can organize their work by creating projects and results saving for an easy recover and review.

Main features:
- Results from program runs remain stored permanently on the server.
- Each user has a personal workspace and can create project folders, nested at any depth, to manage rationally his data and results.
- Each program has a panel with dynamic hiding/unhiding of available options.
- On-line access to program manuals and a program search facility
- The site administrator can exclude EMBOSS programs from wEMBOSS.
- Some program outputs can be automatically opened with applets or plug-ins.

System requirements:
- A C compiler
- A Web server
- EMBOSS

Enhancements
- A bug/feature has been fixed : with recent versions of Web browsers you
- had to type in your username/password for each frame. A change in the login
- procedure makes that you must login only once.
- wEMBOSS supports input files of type "feature" (introduced with the
- EMBOSS version 6 programs featcopy and featreport).
- The README and INSTALL files have been refreshed.
- wEMBOSS version 1.8.1 contains wrappers4EMBOSS version 2.2.1

Geneious is a unique, easy to use software system that has been developed to greatly speed up and simplify research in molecular biology and biochemistry.

As we complete testing of this Beta version we will be making Geneious 1.0 available to all scientists to make data management, organisation and filtering easy, rapid and automatic.

Geneious is a tool that provides sophisticated genome & proteome research tools, protein or molecular visualization, publication literature search and storage tools and more, with revolutionary usability.

So you get more done. And faster results – faster to publication or faster to discovery.

Geneious is a usability revolution in the organization and visualization of bio-data (genome, proteome & publications). It includes an advanced and integrated suite of tools for
• Sequence alignment and phylogenetics
• Sequence analysis
• Automatic search and storage of publications, BLAST. Protein structure viewing, NCBI, EMBL

DINO is a realtime 3D visualization program for structural biology data. It runs under X-Windows and uses OpenGL.

Structural Biology is a multidisciplinary research area, including x-ray crystallography, structural NMR, electron microscopy, atomic-force microscopy and bioinformatics (molecular dynamics, structure predictions, surface calculations etc). The data produced by these different research areas is very diverse: atomic coordinates (models and predictions), electron density maps, surface topographs, trajectories, molecular surfaces, electrostatic potentials, sequence alignements etc.

DINO aims to visualize all this structural data in a single program and to allow the user to explore relationships between the data. There are five data-types supported: structure (atomic coordinates and trajectories), surface (molecular surfaces), scalar fields (electron densities and electrostatic potentials), topographs (surface topography scans) and geom (geometric primitives such as lines).

The number and size of the data the program can handle is only limited by the amount of RAM present in the system.

Molecular Workbench (MW) is a piece of free, open-source modeling software specifically designed for use in education. Powered by a set of real-time particle simulation engines that compute and visualize the motion of particles interacting through force fields, in both 2D and 3D, it is a simulation platform for learning science. Many abstract concepts in physics, chemistry and biology can be dynamically visualized, and virtual experiments that are only limited to your imagination can be designed.

MW provides an easy-to-use authoring system for creating model-driven activities with customized interfaces. Novice users may operate this authoring system just like using a word processor. Macro languages are provided to advanced users for constructing and controlling models in a more flexible way.

The customizability of models through the authoring system allows you to design user interfaces appropriate to your audience, without having to get them involved in the complexity of the modeling engines. Moreover, MW is a special web browser for getting models and activities made by using its unique authoring system.

This results in the ease of distribution of your work. You can independently put your work on the Internet in exactly the same way as you deal with the HTML pages, and they can be opened by anyone using MW in exactly the same way a web page is opened using a conventional browser.

In addition, MW offers a built-in assessment system that, together with the authoring system, enables you to design questions and mine data on your own. A database that has already collected thousands of student reports composed of questions and answers and snapshot images taken from simulations is also available for analysis.