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Sept 2003: Spartan '04 for Windows available
Spartan for Windows is the ultimate desktop application for research chemists in industry and academia. A full library of theoretical models, from molecular mechanics and quantum chemistry, are at your disposal. Organised behind the most sophisticated, yet intuitive, interface in the business. New NMR, UV/vis, Solvation, and Database modules extend Spartan's investigative diversity. Explore chemistry like never before.
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May 2003: Molecular modeling workshops
Professor Warren Hehre, President & CEO of Wavefunction will be in the UK later this year to provide some short (2-3 hour) informal hands on molecular modelling workshops using the latest Spartan modelling software from Wavefunction.
These workshops are an ideal opportunity to see what the latest modern desktop molecular modelling software has to offer you in an informal environment and if you can round up a few colleagues who are also interested we would be delighted to bring him along to your site for a 2-3 hour meeting.
Warren is a very entertaining and sometimes controversial speaker and of course is well known in the modelling field, so we can promise an interesting session! We carry a bunch of Sony notebooks for the hands-on session and only need a room and some power.
Learn more about Spartan software at
www.wavefun.com
or
www.astonsci.co.uk/spartan
.
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Software Marketing Specialist
Aston Scientific, scientific software distributors & resellers
This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful well established company. The position will involve all aspects of marketing, sales and product support. You will be working with several market leading scientific software packages including EZChrom chromatography data handling software, Origin advanced plotting, curve fitting and data analysis software as well as Spartan software for molecular modelling, and other statistics, data analysis and multi-simplex optimisation software.
We are looking for someone with a degree or equivalent qualification together with very good communication and PC skills who can work in a small team and make an immediate contribution.
Aston Scientific Ltd is an ISO 9000 registered company located in a scenic part of Buckinghamshire near the Chiltern Hills. We count among our customers most UK Universities and major pharmaceutical companies as well as other high tech companies in areas as diverse as defence research, atomic energy and engineering.
This is a good opportunity with excellent potential for the right person, the job will be exciting, broad ranging and stimulating. UK and occasional overseas travel will be involved.
The remuneration package will be commensurate with age and experience. In the first instance please send your CV by email in complete confidence to
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April 2003:
Origin 7.5 software workshops
Aston Scientific, the UK & Ireland Distributors of Origin software will be holding a series of on-site workshop presentations to introduce to new and prospective users the benefits of using Origin 7.5 powerful scientific & technical graphing, curve fitting and data analysis software.
Many of the World's largest companies have standardised on Origin and in 90 minutes we would like to show you why using Origin in your work would save you time and improve the quality of your reports.
In this 90 minute session you will learn what Origin can do to help you present and analyse your data and how Origin's functions can be easily customised and compiled to make analysis of even the most complex data fast and easier.
There will be time for questions at the end of the session and each attendee will take away notes and a time limited fully functional copy of Origin.
Find out more information here
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December 2002: Origin 7 reviewed
Origin 7 was recently reviewed in the November 2002 issue of Scientific computing world, where it was compared to other scientific graphing software. They said
"Origin is the heavier weight product of the two in every way, with a wider range of capability "
"Origin really now positions itself as an analysis product for those whose primary requirement is publication of visualizations "
PC magazine also reviewed Origin in their May 2002 issue, where it received the editors choice award and a 4 star rating. They said
"With the release of Origin 7.0 (available in Standard and Professional versions), the company has added numerous ease-of-use enhancements and a totally revamped language strategy to leap to a leadership position in the category."
"Origin 7 has narrowed the gap in ease of use and bested its competitors on power, analytic muscle, and capability as a development tool."
For more Origin reviews, please visit the dedicated OriginLab page
http://www.originlab.com/www/news_and_events/reviews/index.asp
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November 2002: Spartan '02 available for Mac
Wavefunction is pleased to announce the release of the first version of Spartan for Macintosh running exclusively under OS X. This new version will take full advantage of OS X features such as fully preemptive multi-tasking, hardware accelerated open GL graphics, and a multi-button mouse. Through Wavefunction's collaboration with Q-Chem, this new version also includes an entirely new set of computational engines offering a host of powerful methods not available in previous Macintosh releases.
Computational enhancements include: Density Functional methods [local, BP, BLYP, EDF1, and B3LYP]; Møller Plesset methods [MP2, MP3, MP4, and LMP2]; and Advanced Correlated methods [among others, CCSD, CCSD(T), G3, and G3(MP2)]. A wide variety of Gaussian basis sets and pseudopotentials are available. In addition to the range of new methods, major improvements in the computational engines include analytical frequencies for Hartree-Fock and density functional models, resulting in speed increases of an order of magnitude for these calculations.
Graphical User Interface improvements include building in multiple molecule styles, and extensions to Quick-Time features include animations of user-driven processes such as the construction of molecules, rotation, translation, scaling, and minimization. A new graphical indicator "local ionization potential" has been implemented. Mapped onto an electron density surface, this provides an alternative to electrostatic potential maps for the description of electrophilic processes. Another 300 reactions have been added to the internal transition-state library in support of transition state geometry calculations. The "Tutorial and User's Guide" is now available under the Help menu in HTML format.
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1st October 2002: Spartan offer announced
Wavefunction, publishers of Spartan software have just announced a promotional offer allowing PC Spartan and PC Spartan Plus users to upgrade to Spartan 02 Essential Edition at a reduced price.
In addition a second offer provides an upgrade and a maintenance contract which will provide 3 years support and further software upgrades.
As Wavefunctions UK Distributors Aston Scientific are pleased to pass this offer on to Spartan users in the UK. Full details and prices are available from us on application. P lease note that this offer is only valid for orders received on or before November 29th 2002
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September 2002: EZChrom Elite chosen as SC&Is 2002 Readers Choice Award Winners
EZChrom has been selected as the winner of the Chromatography Data System and the Data Management categories in Scientific Computing and Instrumentations (SC&I) 2002 Readers Choice Awards. This annual award is given to the top products in the areas of quality, features, and support by the readers of SC&I.
Scientific Softwares EZChrom Elite was voted number one in the Chromatography Data System (CDS) category. EZChrom Elite is one of the most widely used CDS products on the market with over 50,000 installations and is recognized as one of the most feature-rich applications while maintaining an easy to use graphical user interface. EZChrom Elite is scalable from a single user workstation to an enterprise-wide thin client client/server implementation.
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06th August2002: Origin Voted #1 Presentation Graphics Software for 2002
Readers were asked to vote for products normally encountered in work, which met
several criteria. Favorite products were based on their personal evaluation of quality, reliability, ease-of-use, technical support, and value.
Origin has also been selected by the readers as a finalist in the Data Analysis category.
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2nd August2002: Leeds University gains Origin academic site license
Staff and students at Leeds University are now benefitting from a new academic site license for Origin. Leeds use Origin extensively for teaching and in their research labs, where users appreciate the sophisticated data analysis options and publication quality graphical output.
The new University site license allows Origin to be available from any PC on campus, whether as part of a teaching cluster, or on a stand alone research or instrument machine. Also available as part of the scheme are individual perpetual academic licenses and individual student licenses, which allow your students to take Origin home during their studies, at a greatly reduced price.
Benefits of the site license:
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Total cost of owning Origin 7 vastly reduced
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Easier installation, distribution and accessibility
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Includes all Origin patches and upgrades during the license agreement.
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Central management of Origin 7
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Priority support package from Aston Scientific
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29th July2002: Origin academic site licenses available
Aston Scientific are pleased to announce the immediate availability of affordable annual academic site-wide licenses for their popular and powerful data analysis and graphing package Origin 7. The new University site license allows Origin to be available from any PC on campus, whether as part of a teaching cluster, or on a stand alone research or instrument machine.
Also available as part of the scheme are individual perpetual academic licenses and individual student licenses, which allow your students to take Origin home during their studies, at a greatly reduced price.
Benefits of the site license:
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Total cost of owning Origin 7 vastly reduced
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Easier installation, distribution and accessibility
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Includes all Origin patches and upgrades during the license agreement.
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Central management of Origin 7
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Priority support package from Aston Scientific
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30th April 2002: Spartan essential
For the first time popular Spartan software is now available in an affordable annual rental scheme for University Teaching Labs.
Spartan 02 Essential Edition for Windows contains everything the Chemistry Student needs for a thorough understanding of Molecular Chemistry and modelling. Learn more at http://www.astonsci.co.uk/spartan .
Annual teaching licenses are available and are priced according to the number of users:
0-20 users £2,500 pa
21-50 users £3,950 pa
51-100 users £7,150 pa
Prices exclude VAT and are subject to a two year minimum contract
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28th March 2002: EZChrom seminar tour
A series of seminars focussing on high end chromatography data handling and related topics will be held in Summer/Autumn 2002.
The program is being finalised at the moment but it is expected it will include contributions from other instrument companies
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20th March 2002: PFM included as standard in Origin Pro
OriginPro 7 now includes the Peak Fitting Module. This tool offers a wizard interface to step the user through the steps of advanced peak analysis. You can automatically detect a baseline and peak locations, then fit over 100 peaks. An extensive set of built-in functions is provided. Individual peaks can be assigned to use a specific function. You can also create your own user-defined functions with arbitrary baselines. The wizard-based interface allows you to save procedures to reuse later with a click of a button.
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15th March 200 2: Origin 7 shipping
Origin 7 offers new features that increase both ease-of-use and analysis power. This has been achieved by creating new interfaces to simplify frequently performed tasks, and by adopting a standard programming language. As a result, Origin 7 is the first scientific software to combine presentation-quality graphics, the C language, and elements of the Numerical Algorithms Group, Inc. (NAG®) library in a single package.
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30th February 2002: Origin 7 C training available
Aston Scientific now offers training for all of our key products, ranging from introductory sessions to advanced programming and scripting instruction. Courses can be tailored to individual customer needs depending on the number of people and the level of training required.
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