Dear All
Thank you so much for all of you who patiently responded to my mail
on the following questions :
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How many of you are spending the $$ or EE or YY
* to buy commercial third party NMR processing software (i.e. other
than Bruker, Varian, etc.), specifically the site license for an entire
department or even the whole institution
* and maintain a dedicated software distribution server to distribute
the same to the defined user base. Do you get IT assistance from a
relevant department or group for this or are you expected to play
'Gandalf the wizard' and just give them what they ask ?
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I will give a brief summary of the responses below. Although I will
indicate in 'percentage', a particular approach taken by labs out there,
one should keep in mind that it is not truly out of a statistically
relevant sampling, considering the number of inputs I received. With
that Disclaimer, here we go :
SUMMARY:
* The two major third party processing software that seem to be in
fashion are : MestReNova and ACD Labs 1D and 2D NMR packages.
* Many if not all solutions need some kind of a license server
(Windows, Unix, Linux, etc...) and about 50% of you get support from an
IT person to maintain this.
* University wide site license is provided by about 15 % of the folks.
* About 20% of you have Department wide distribution of either MestRe
or ACD Labs software, without any upper limit on the number of
simultaneous instances of usage of the software.
* About 20% of you have opted for 'limited instances' of usage of the
software i.e. as an example, no more than 5 people can use the software
at any given time in your department. Some kind of license server
system will ensure that this is so.
* About 15% have an unlimited number of processing software licenses for
packages like, MestRe lite or NUTS 1D or the MestRe plugin to ChemDraw.
* Less than 10% opted for getting additional licenses for Bruker or
Varian's own software to be run on dedicated machines, or on different
host computers with a license server to monitor the number of instances
(so called floating license).
* The rest of the respondents are thinking of getting processing
software for distribution but as of now are able to manage with the
spectrometer manufacturer's software.
* Just so it may help someone out there in the spinland, Kirk Marat's
SpinWorks is still available as a freely usable software for NMR data
processing.
Let me once again remind you that the above, as they say about
'online polls' in the internet, are results of an 'unscientific'
sampling of the scientific behavior of this unique bunch of spin doctors
out there.
Last but not least, let me specifically thank (in randomized order
i.e. too lazy to sort) :
Russel Hopson
Ivan Kerestzes
Charlie Fry
Jeff Ellena
David VanderVelde
Jiejun Wu
Jeff de Ropp
Dee-Hua Huang
Sara Kunz
Joseph Massey
Bill Gurley
Nick Burlinson
Joseph Dumais
Jeff Simpson
Nils Schloerer
Keep in touch !
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Rajan K Paranji, Ph.D.
*NMR Facility Manager
Department of Chemistry
Room 65, Bagley Hall
University of Washington
*Seattle, WA 98195*
*ph: 206 685 2581 pager:206 680 3779
fax: 206 685 8665
email: paranji_at_chem.washington.edu
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Received on Wed May 07 2008 - 13:00:05 MST