ChemOffice Ultra with ChemDraw is
available on KU campus- wide site license
ChemOffice
Ultra
is available through a campus-wide site license as of March 29, 2004.
The new 2008-2009 license is now available, as
of March 26, 2008.
| Note: For existing users of the
ChemBioOffice Ultra site license, and email was sent on March
6,
2008, explaining the renewal procedure. If you did not
get that email, contact your technical liaison; if that person
is unfamiliar, contact Ken Ratzlaff (ratzlaff@ku.edu
).
Also note that there is a new
activation procedure this year.
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ChemBioOffice Ultra
2008 is a suite of
packages for persons in chemically related fields. It includes
ChemBioDraw, the premier chemical structure drawing tool and
ChemBio3D, a molecular modeling program as well as 11 other
utilities for chemists and biologists.
Procedure
Anyone with an @.ku.edu email address may download the
full executable via http://chemstore.cambridgesoft.com/sitelicense.cfm?sid=7
You then register an account and download the
installation package. (The package is over 230 MB! If
you have a slow link at home, you may want to download on campus and
bring home a CD.) This installation is ChemBioOffice 2008 (PC)
or ChemBioOffice 11 (Mac) that will be valid until April 1,
2009.
Note: You should get an email within
minutes. If you don't after a longer period, contact
Ken Ratzlaff or
Bob Timberlake.
Support For installation support,
etc., contact the IT support person for your department.
Eligibility
Any student, faculty member or staff member at the University of Kansas
is eligible to download and use the full ChemBioOffice suite.
Downloads take place from the Cambridge servers; to authenticate, you
must have a .ku.edu email address.
Note: We asked Cambridge
Software for clarification on KUMC, and they responded that the site
license only applies to a single campus.*
Public Labs: A special serial
number is available for installations on groups of computers.
This serial number is not to be used for computers
assigned to individuals. See Bob Timberlake (bTimber@ku.edu,
550-7105) for assistance.
Sponsors:
This license is funded (at a cost of ~$15K per year) by Chemistry,
CEBC, CMLD, COBRE, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
BIO Center,
Molecular Biosciences, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and School of Pharmacy. (The current
pricing for a single academic license is $1,290. The current
commercial pricing for a single license is $2850.)
For acquisition and installation information, contact
your Technical Liaison or
Bob Timberlake
(785-550-7105).
* Contact Jenny Mehmedovic, 864-4999, with
questions concerning eligibility for a @ku.edu
email address by
persons working with the University who are not students or paid
staff on the Lawrence campus. Some collaborators with KU
investigators may be eligible.
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