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Free databases, programs and services are tagged as free to make them easy to find here.  Some things are only free to academics, or qualified academics. We called these [[:Category:Freecom]] meaning free/commercial mixed model.  Others require a contract, but cost no money.  You must read the fine print.  Here we collect things that are generally freely available at least to academics.  
The modern world has brought us nuanced ideas about what free means. Fortunately, many, many resources for drug discovery are free to use (gratis) for academics, as long as you abide by the rules. A growing number of resources are even freer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre libre]). You must read the license to know which one you've got.
Please also see [[:Category:Commercial]] and [[:Category:Freecom]].  Distinguish between free to use (gratis) vs free to develop (libre).
 
Free databases, programs and services referenced on this site are tagged as free to make them easy to find here.  Some things are only free to academics, or qualified academics. We called these [[:Category:Freecom]] meaning a free/commercial mixed model.  Here we collect things that are generally freely available (gratis) at least to academics. Please also see [[:Category:Commercial]].  


= Free cheminformatics software =
= Free cheminformatics software =
Most completely free software for chemical informatics is part of the [http://www.blueobelisk.com Blue Obelisk Movement]. We note some of these, as well as other packages, below:
The [http://www.blueobelisk.com Blue Obelisk Movement] collects free software and databases. We note some of these, as well as other packages, below:
* [http://jmol.sourceforge.net JMol] - so good, Nature picked it.
* [http://jmol.sourceforge.net JMol]  
* [http://cdk.sourceforge.net CDK] - many of these packages, such as Bioclipse, make use of CDK.
* [http://cdk.sourceforge.net CDK] - many of these packages, such as Bioclipse, make use of CDK.
* [http://openbabel.sourceforge.net OpenBabel]/[http://joelib.sourceforge.net/ JOELib] - format conversion
* [http://openbabel.sourceforge.net OpenBabel]/[http://joelib.sourceforge.net/ JOELib] - format conversion
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* [http://www.knime.org Knime] - a free Scitegic PipelinePilot style program
* [http://www.knime.org Knime] - a free Scitegic PipelinePilot style program
* [http://www.mayachemtools.org MayaChemTools] - a growing collection of Perl scripts, modules, and classes to support day-to-day computational discovery needs
* [http://www.mayachemtools.org MayaChemTools] - a growing collection of Perl scripts, modules, and classes to support day-to-day computational discovery needs
 
* OpenBabel


= Free databases =
= Free databases =

Revision as of 18:48, 12 March 2014

The modern world has brought us nuanced ideas about what free means. Fortunately, many, many resources for drug discovery are free to use (gratis) for academics, as long as you abide by the rules. A growing number of resources are even freer (libre). You must read the license to know which one you've got.

Free databases, programs and services referenced on this site are tagged as free to make them easy to find here. Some things are only free to academics, or qualified academics. We called these Category:Freecom meaning a free/commercial mixed model. Here we collect things that are generally freely available (gratis) at least to academics. Please also see Category:Commercial.

Free cheminformatics software

The Blue Obelisk Movement collects free software and databases. We note some of these, as well as other packages, below:

  • JMol
  • CDK - many of these packages, such as Bioclipse, make use of CDK.
  • OpenBabel/JOELib - format conversion
  • Bioclipse - a visual platform for chemical and bio-informatics.
  • Knime - a free Scitegic PipelinePilot style program
  • MayaChemTools - a growing collection of Perl scripts, modules, and classes to support day-to-day computational discovery needs
  • OpenBabel

Free databases

  • KEGG
  • ChemDB @ UCI - public database of small molecules and related chemical informatics resources
  • SuperDrug - a conformational drug database
  • SuperNatural - searchable database of available natural compounds
  • SuperLigands - a PDB ligand database
  • BioMeta - a database of metabolites derived from KEGG
  • ChemBlast - a tool to find the same ligand in many PDB structures

Free datasets

Open Source Drug Discovery

Open Source is well known in the computer science community, and indeed in bioinformatics. A number of initiatives that include small molecule drug design have been launched. They are attempting to discover 'open source drugs', however strange that may sound. We ignore here initiatives that aim to develop vaccines, not because they are not important, but because our interest is in small molecules.

Subcategories

This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.

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Pages in category "Free"

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