SPECTROMETER CONTROL SOFTWARE:

• DAMARIS (Darmstadt Magnetic Resonance Instrument Software) - develops a framework for NMR spectrometer controls, open source, maintained by Achim Gädke, courtesy of NMR groups at TU Darmstadt: AG Nestle and AG Fujara.
  
  
• SpecMan - Spectrometer Manager - the shell for pulse EPR experiments, also applicable to pulse NMR experiments. Courtesy of Boris Epel, Igor Gromov and Stefan Stoll, with Daniella Goldfarb and Arthur Schweiger, Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich).
  
  
• SpinCore Matlab GUI Interface to RadioProcessor - Program created for the MATLAB environment that allows quick and easy interaction with the SpinCore RadioProcessor boards.

DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS:

• matNMR - matNMR is a highly flexible processing toolbox for NMR and EPR spectra under MATLAB (all platforms). It can read in binary FID's from most commercial spectrometers, process any 1D or 2D spectrum and uses all graphical capabilities that MATLAB has to offer. The program is fully GUI and at all times allows the user to profit from MATLAB's numerical powers (courtesy of Jacco van Beek, ETH Zurich).
  
  
• NMRPipe - NMRPipe provides comprehensive facilities for Fourier processing of spectra in one to four dimensions, as well as a variety of facilities for spectral display and analysis. It is currently used in over 300 academic and commercial laboratories (courtesy of the Ad Bax group).
  
  
• MestRe-C - from Spain - MestRe-C 2.0 is a program designed to process and plot 1D NMR spectra on PC's running Windows 95/98/NT 4.0. It imports files from most spectrometers and includes a number of useful tools (courtesy F. Javier Sardina, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN).
  
  
• RMN - a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) data processing program for the Macintosh. Dr.Philip J. Grandinetti.
  
  
• Gifa - "The Gifa program is a multi-purpose NMR program. It is designed for the processing, the display and the analysis of 1D, 2D & 3D NMR data-sets." M.A.Delsuc, CBS, France.
  
  
• MARDIGRAS - "(Matrix Analysis of Relaxation for DIscerning the Geometry of an Aqueous Structure) is a FORTRAN program for calculating proton-proton distances from cross-peak intensities measured from a 2D NOE experiment."- UCSF, USA.
  
  
• Sparky - Graphical NMR assignment program for proteins and nucleic acids. Runs under Windows, Linux, or Unix.
  
  
• Azara - Azara is a suite of programs to process and view NMR data. Courtesy Wayne Boucher.
  
  
• iNMR (evolution of SwaN-MR) : "An NMR processing software for the Macintosh. It reads 1D, 2D, 3D and 4D spectra coming from many spectrometers and its feature list is comparable to those of commercial packages". Giuseppe Balacco.
  
  
• CARA - CARA is a program for computer-aided resonance assignment of multidimensional NMR spectra of macromolecules. Dedicated tools along with a well organized database allow for efficient assignment. Custom applications can be developed with scripts. All major platforms are supported.
  
  
• MARS is a program for robust automatic backbone assignment of 13C/15N labeled proteins (curtesy Markus Zweckstetter, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany).
  
  
• HiRes - High Resolution Spectroscopy (HiRes), is a free Windows software program to provide comprehensive analysis of large NMR spectroscopic data sets. HiRes combines standard spectral processing routines, data correction functions, techniques for reducing information complexity of multi-spectral dataset such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and tools for Pattern Recognition, such as Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF), which extracts a set of spectral patterns with direct physical interpretation that can be used for identifying meaningful biochemical effects. These spectral patterns are also correlated with auxiliary information from the samples, such as biological end-points, drug toxicity or disease diagnosis. Courtesy of Columbia University, New York, USA.
  
  
• 3DiCSI - 3D Interactive Chemical Shift Imaging (3DiCSI) is an interactive, user-friendly, and comprehensive software program for multi-dimensional CSI data visualization, spectral processing/analysis, spectral localization, and quantification. It currently runs on Windows platform and is provided as a software free for research. Courtesy of Qi Zhao, Columbia University.

SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS:

• CORMA - " (COmplete Relaxation Matrix Analysis) is a FORTRAN program for calculating the dipole-dipole relaxation matrix for a system of protons and converting that to intensities expected for a 2DNOE experiment." - UCSF, USA.
  
  
• FIRM - Full Iterative Relaxation Matrix program. "Interactive program (fortran) for calculating NOEs of a structural model using the relaxation matrix approach. Distances, corrected for the effects of spin diffusion, can be back-calculated from experimetal NOEs using a hybrid relaxation matrix. Includes features for simulating internal motions". (S. Edmondson, University of Alabama in Huntsville).
  
  
• GAMMA - "a library written for simulation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiments" - ref: S.A. Smith, T.O. Levante, B.H. Meier and R.R. Ernst (ETH, Switzerland); Computer Simulations in Magnetic Resonance: An Object-Oriented Programming Approach, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, November 1993, Series A.
  
  
• MathNMR - Mathematica package for NMR spin and spatial tensor manipulations. Arbitrary spin systems, commutators, projection operators, rotations, Redfield matrix elements, matrix decomposition into basis operators, change of basis, coherence filtering, and the manipulation of Hamiltonians. The package is available for free. Alexej Jerschow, NYU.
  
  
• MORASS - Multiple Overhauser Relaxation AnalysiS and Simulation. "MORASS uses a full hybrid matrix eigenvalue/eigenvector solution to the Bloch equations to derive cross-relaxation rates and interproton distances. MORASS analyzes 2D NMR NOESY data from oligonucleotides and proteins to evaluate cross-relaxation rates from which interproton distances are obtained" - R.P. Meadows, C.B. Post, and D.G. Gorenstein, Purdue Univ. USA.
  
  
• NUMARIT - "A spin simulation/iteration package for the X32", by Kirk Marat.
  
  
• QSim - program for simulation of liquid state NMR experiments. QSim has a graphical user interface, and pulse sequences are set up graphically. Pulse sequence elements that can be simulated include gradients, shaped pulses and decoupling sequences. Spin systems with any NMR-active nuclei can be simulated. Relaxation is included in all parts of simulations. First order chemical exchange may be included in simulations. Simulations are performed using quantum mechanical or classical mechanics. Processing may be performed in the program and 1D and 2D spectra plotted. Courtesy of Magnus Helgstrand, Dept. of Biophysical Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden.
  
  
• SIMMOL - Software for specification and 3D visualization of anisotropic interaction tensors from pdb-structure of peptides and proteins. The software allows straigthforward establishment of the orientations and magnitudes of anisotropic tensors for numerical simulations of peptide/protein solid-state NMR spectra using SIMPSON - Mads Bak, Robert Schultz, Thomas Vosegaard, and Niels Chr. Nielsen.
  
  
• SIMPSON - (SIMulation Package for SOlid-state Nmr spectroscopy) - A free solid-state NMR simulation program with emphasis on ease of use. Multiple pulses, spins, and dimensions. Flexible Tcl input files. Extended documentation for various experiments - Mads Bak, Jimmy T. Rasmussen, and Niels Chr. Nielsen, Lab. Biomol. NMR, Aarhus, Denmark.
  
  
• WINDNMR-Pro (DNMR71.EXE) is a Windows program for simulating high resolution NMR spectra. The 16-bit version of WINDNMR was published by the Journal of Chemical Education - Software. The program will run on all versions of Windows (95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, Professor Hans J. Reich, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

NMR STRUCTURE CALCULATION AND REFINEMENT:

• Standalone ATNOS/CANDID program - the standalone ATNOS/CANDID program bundles together the two algorithms ATNOS for automated NOESY peak picking and CANDID for automated NOE assignment and whereby provides a powerful platform for objective and efficient de novo 3D protein structure determination by NMR. Courtesy Torsten Herrmann.
  
  
• TALOS - TALOS is a database system for empirical prediction of phi and psi backbone torsion angles using a combination of five kinds (HA, CA, CB, CO, N) of chemical shift assignments for a given protein sequence. (courtesy of the Ad Bax Group).
  
  
• CYANA is a program for automated structure calculation of biological macromolecules on the basis of conformational constraints from NMR. The combination of automated NOESY cross peak assignment, structure calculation with a fast torsion angle dynamics algorithm, and the ease-of-use of CYANA provide for unprecedented efficiency in NMR protein structure determination.
  
  
• CNS - Crystallography & NMR System (CNS) is the result of an international collaborative effort among several research groups. The program has been designed to provide a flexible multi-level hierachical approach for the most commonly used algorithms in macromolecular structure determination. Highlights include heavy atom searching, experimental phasing (including MAD and MIR), density modification, crystallographic refinement with maximum likelihood targets, and NMR structure calculation using NOEs, J-coupling, chemical shift, and dipolar coupling data.
  
  
• XPLOR-NIH - XPLOR-NIH is a structure determination program which builds on the X-PLOR program, including additional tools developed at the NIH.

MISC.:

• Jean-Marc Nuzillard NMR software homepage at http://www.univ-reims.fr/LSD/JmnSoft
  
  
• MagRes - Web-based magnet reservation, courtesy University of Indiana.
  
  
• NMRPal - NMR calculator and data tables for PalmOS (by Blaise Frederick).
  
  
• PalmNMR - Lists frequencies, gyromagnetic ratios, natl. abundances, receptivities, magnetic and quadrupolar moments, and reference compounds of most NMR active nuclei (by Alexej Jerschow).
  
  
• Pocket NMRinfo - PocketPC database of NMR properties, chemical shifts, etc.
  
  
• Peter Lundberg'sCompilation of Educational NMR Software; (courtesy of Graham Barlow).
  
  
• Rudi Nunlist's Software Archive
  
  
• Software available from Montelione's group
  
  
• Software available from Natl. Magn. Reson. Facility at Madison
  
  
• Software available from Biomolecular NMR Facility at UAH
  
  
• Software available from University of Pennsylvania
  
  
• Software available from Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champain

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• ScienceSoft's NMRanalyst: Computerized analysis of phase sensitive 1D through 3D NMR FIDs and spectra. Generates accurate spin system descriptions including signal integrals and coupling constants. Sold by Varian, Inc. as "Full Reduction of Entire Datasets", FRED(tm).
  
  
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• Woody Conover's (Acorn) SAM, NUTS, and Virtual Spectrometer.
  
  
• Accelrys' FELIX - NMR data processing, analysis and assignment program.