SOMA2 1.2 Sodium Released

25.06.2009

Scientist's Interface SOMA2 Installation Also Updated to Latest Version

SOMA2 is a WWW browser operated modelling environment for computational drug discovery and molecular modelling. SOMA2 has been developed at CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. SOMA2 1.2 Sodium was released on 1st of Jun 2009. SOMA2 Software is distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License, version 2. The source code package, documentation, etc. are available from:

http://www.csc.fi/soma

Version 1.2 Sodium contains new features, improvements and bugfixes, direct link to release notes:

http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/soma/downloads/soma2/CHANGES.txt/view

For CSC customers SOMA2 1.2 Sodium is made available in Scientist's Interface. It can be accessed from:

https://hotpage.csc.fi/appl/drug/index.phtml.en

SOMA2 offers a full scale modelling environment from inputting molecular data to analysis of the results. The system can make use of scientific applications installed in the computing system. The SOMA2 environment enables an easy configuring of the scientific applications via a web form. The scientific applications can also be combined into an application workflow where several applications are automatically executed one after another. SOMA2 contains a modular framework for integrating and executing programs which makes the system easy to be adapted into the local computing infrastructure. SOMA2 installation in Scientist's Interface provides access to applications installed in Hippu and Murska. These include AutoDock, Gaussian, GOLD, GPAW, TURBOMOLE, and several other programs.