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Summary
Pharmacology
Debian Med packages for pharmaceutical research

This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software and documentation which is useful for pharmaceutical research.

The list to the right includes various software projects which are of some interest to the Debian Med Project. Currently, only a few of them are available as Debian packages. It is our goal, however, to include all software in Debian Med which can sensibly add to a high quality Debian Pure Blend.

For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:

If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian Med to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the Debian Med mailing list

Links to other tasks

Debian Med Pharmacology packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Chemtool
kemisk strukturtegningsprogram
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Debtags of package chemtool:
fieldchemistry
interfacex11
roleprogram
scopeapplication
uitoolkitgtk
useediting
works-withimage:vector, image
works-with-formatsvg
x11application
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License: DFSG free
Svn

Chemtool er en GTK+-baseret 2D kemisk strukturredigering i X11. Den understøtter mange bindingstyper, de fleste former for tekst, der benyttes i kemisk tegnsætning samt splines, cirkelstykker og kurvede pile.

Tegninger kan eksporteres i formaterne MOL og PDB; SVG og XFig til yderligere påtegninger eller som en PiCTeX-tegning, en bitmap- eller PostScript-fil (flere af disse gennem XFigs hjælpeprogram transfig).

Pakken indeholder også et hjælpeprogram, cht, der beregner sumformlen og (eksakt) molvægt af en fil tegnet i chemtool. Cht kan enten kaldes direkte af Chemtool eller fra kommandolinien.

Please cite: Matthias Brüstle: Chemtool - Moleküle zeichnen mit dem Pinguin. (eprint) Nachr. Chem. 49(11):1310-1313 (2001)
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Debian packages in contrib or non-free

Raccoon
preparation of in silico drug screening projects
Maintainer: Steffen Moeller
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License: DFSG free, but needs non-free components
Svn

The field of computational biology is all about modeling physiochemical entities. Structural biology is about how those entities look in 3D and behave. And we have a drug when we can change that behaviour in a way that we want it to be changed - and only that behaviour.

Some good part of the characterisation of promising drug-like compounds for their interaction with a larger protein can be done on computers. This package helps with getting collections of small ligands prepared to be fitted against a particular protein of known structure. That docking itself is then to be performed by autodock or autodock-vina.

Raccoon may not find the drug, but it may well find a lead to it. To have this package with Debian shall help smaller biochemistry labs and grants an opportunity for the general public to educate itself and/or actively join in to help the world .... just a bit.

Please cite: Sandro Cosconati, Stefano Forli, Alex L Perryman, Rodney Harris, David S Goodsell and Arthur J Olson: Virtual screening with AutoDock: theory and practice. (PubMed,eprint) Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery 5(6):597–607 (2010)
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