ACQUIRING THE INTERPROBE SOFTWARE
In the past INTERPROBE CHEMICAL SERVICES has made most of its products freely available for download from its ftp server. Recently there have been problems in maintaining this service, and it has been decided to allow downloads only after a licence has been applied for and granted.
Potential USERS are now required to submit a completed License Application Form,
Once this has been received and verified, the USER will be issued with a username and password, sent in separate E-mail messages, The username/password pair will have a limited tme validity (one month), but this will be renewed if this is necessary.
During the period of validity the user will have access to an ftp server using the secure version of ftp (sftp). This (sftp) is available on most LINUX and UNIX systems, but might not be available on Windows systems by default.
Downloading Programs
The recommended method of downloading the program files of all
types (Irix, Windows and Linux) is to use a Linux machine. All the
files are in the form of compressed archives. In the case of Irix
and Linux programs these are gzipped tar files; the Windows programs
are in the form of WinZipped .exe files.All of these file types
are classed as binary from the point of view of
"sftp". Simple execution of the .exe files will regenerate
the the original relative directory structure on a Windows
machine. This allows the files to be located in any chosen area of the
file store.
Downloading the Data Files of Small/Medium Sized Structures.
This large database contains 4.3 million structures. They are available
in two formats (Interchem D format and Sybyl Mol2 format). To download
the complete database in one of these formats will take 24 hours. If
this is where your primary interest in INTERPROBE's offerings lies,
then it is recommended that you should consider purchasing the whole
archive (all the programs and the databases) on one CD and two DVDs.
for £15.00 (UK currency). If you want to see what the structures
look like and to how QUICKSCAN can access them, then just download one
of the smaller databases (Peakdale or ChemDiv-New-Chemistry).
Revised 18th June 2007