https://grok.lsu.edu/Updated Science Software articles!60https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18837 1. Visit the LabVIEW Tigerware page. 2. Select Log In To Download . 3. Log in to the myLSU portal using your myLSU credentials. 4. Select Mac from the Select a Platform option and select the latest version of LabVIEW from the Sele18837 Fri, 22 May 2026 09:36:52 GMTFri, 22 May 2026 09:36:52 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18756 To Install LabVIEW on a Windows Operating System: 1. Log in to TigerWare to download. 2. Click the Labview: Software Platform Bundle Download Tool (Windows) to download the program. 3. After downloading, open the software. The download directory installatio18756 Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:22:34 GMTTue, 23 Sep 2025 08:22:34 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17535 General Information CrystalMaker 9 is an advanced chemical & materials modeling program, featuring energy minimization, and crystal-engineering - combined with full crystallographic model building and visualization. CrystalMaker provides a streamlined workflow that majors on produ17535 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:39:43 GMTTue, 12 Aug 2025 11:39:43 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=14707 General Information The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) - The world repository of small molecule crystal structures, and is the principal product of the CCDC. It is the central focus of the CSD System, which also comprises software for database access, structure visualization and d14707 Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:50:25 GMTFri, 01 Aug 2025 12:50:25 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=9397 General Information IDL 7.0 is a software program designed to analyze data or imagery. College students who plan to become scientists, researchers, or data analysts may find this program to be very useful. Students involved in classes such as physics, medicine, computer science, as9397 Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:11:17 GMTMon, 07 Jul 2025 13:11:17 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16867 General Information Gaussian is a software package used for calculating molecular electronic structure and properties. Gaussian is used by chemists, chemical engineers, biochemists, and physicists for research in established and emerging areas of chemical interest. This package includes16867 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:34:56 GMTMon, 07 Apr 2025 15:34:56 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17512 General Information Autodesk is an American software corporation that designs applications for the engineering, architecture, manufacturing, construction, entertainment, and telecommunication industries. A wide range of Autodesk applications are available free of charge to those i17512 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:33:32 GMTMon, 07 Apr 2025 15:33:32 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=12455 General Information Stellarium is a program that requires many data files. Files for Stellarium can be located in two different places, either the user directory or the installation directory. The user directory is for the user account that is running the program and this is where the progr12455 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:34:56 GMTWed, 26 Mar 2025 12:34:56 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=9326 General Information SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to access the world's largest collection of biochemical, chemical, chemical engineering, medical, and other related information. You can explore one single source for scientific information in journals and pat9326 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:24:17 GMTWed, 12 Mar 2025 14:24:17 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18780 To Install GaussView: Analyze whether the system has automatically mounted the GaussView DVD and if it has not, mount it. Change to the C shell, and set the g16root and mntpnt environment variables: $ /bin/csh % setenv mntpnt "/mnt/dvd" # Set to whereve18780 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:14:29 GMTThu, 09 Jan 2025 08:14:29 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18772 General Information SingleCrystal is an elegant program designed to make the world of diffraction, reciprocal lattices, and stereographic projections intuitive, interactive and fun! SingleCrystal can simulate X-ray, neutron and electron diffraction patterns from single crystals, as18772 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:11:59 GMTFri, 03 Jan 2025 17:11:59 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=12293 General Information Stellarium is free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. With Stellarium, you truly see what you cannot see with just your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope. Stellarium is used also in planetariums. Pre-Installation N12293 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:35:03 GMTFri, 16 Aug 2024 12:35:03 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18776 To Install CrystalMaker on a Mac OS X Operating System: 1. Visit the CrystalMaker TigerWare page . 2. Click the Log In to Download button. 3. Sign in to the myLSU portal using your myLSU ID and password. 4. Select Mac from the Select a Pla18776 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:13:37 GMTFri, 16 Aug 2024 11:13:37 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=14768 General Information The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional14768 Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:07:03 GMTWed, 03 Jul 2024 15:07:03 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18636 Installing Stellarium to your Windows device: 1. Visit the Stellarium webpage. 2. Select the Windows (32-bit or 64-bit) download button at the top of the page. 3. Choose a language for the installation and click OK. 4. The Stellarium setup w18636 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:27:11 GMTFri, 21 Jun 2024 15:27:11 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16914 To Register on SciFinder: 1. Click Next to begin registration as a new user. 2. Click Accept after reading the terms below. 3. Next, fill in the desired fields and click Register . 4. This message will then appear, prompting you to 16914 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:51:26 GMTMon, 01 Apr 2024 11:51:26 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=14805 General Information LabView builds on easy-to-use graphical programming, introduces powerful features for developing measurement applications, and provides open connectivity tools to integrate external applications and services. This software is available under LSU's license agreemen14805 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:42:04 GMTMon, 25 Mar 2024 12:42:04 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16908 General Information Ansys is an engineering program that offers engineering simulation solution sets. This tool is used to virtually put a product through rigorous testing procedures before it is made into a physical object. There are many products that ANSYS supports, s16908 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:48:44 GMTWed, 20 Mar 2024 12:48:44 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=11425 General Information Celestia is a real-time 3D space simulation featuring a database of over 100,000 stars, nearly a hundred solar system, objects, and the ability to explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia is Free and runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Pre11425 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:19:49 GMTWed, 20 Mar 2024 12:19:49 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16898 General Information Mnova is a multi-page, multi-vendor, multi-technique, and multi-platform analytical chemistry software suite designed as a container for NMR & MS plugins - The Mnova Suite is the graphical user interface (GUI) where all the Mnova Plugins run. Pre-Installatio16898 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:05:34 GMTWed, 20 Mar 2024 12:05:34 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=14712 General Information Clustal W is a general-purpose multiple sequence alignment program for DNA or proteins. It produces biologically meaningful multiple-sequence alignments of divergent sequences. It calculates the best match for the selected sequences and lines them up so that the i14712 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 09:53:56 GMTWed, 20 Mar 2024 09:53:56 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18744 General Information GaussView is a program that helps you prepare input to Gaussian by using visual guides when simulating molecules and reactions, and also examine the output from Gaussian when the simulation runs. It allows the user to quickly sketch and design complex and large molec18744 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 09:43:44 GMTWed, 20 Mar 2024 09:43:44 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18767 General Information CrystalDiffract 6 is an all-new, stand-alone program, designed to make the world of X-ray and neutron powder diffraction intuitive, interactive - and fun! CrystalDiffract 6 reads from crystal files, including CIF files, to simulate X-ray or neutron powder diffra18767 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:57:53 GMTMon, 18 Mar 2024 13:57:53 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18749 To Install CrystalMaker on a Windows Operating System: 1. Log in to TigerWare to download CrystalMaker. 2. Under Download for Authorized Users, Select Windows or Mac for Platform, and for Select a Version, select CrystalMaker 9.1 or CrystalMaker 9.2.7 3. At18749 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:28:37 GMTTue, 05 Mar 2024 16:28:37 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18840 General Information OsiriX is an image processing software dedicated to DICOM images (.dcm /.DCM extension) produced by medical equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...) and confocal microscopy (LSM and BioRAD-PIC format). It can also read many other file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG18840 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:49:41 GMTThu, 22 Feb 2024 13:49:41 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17178 General Information OPUS is a software that can be used to analyze and view infrared spectra collected on the LSU Chemistry Department’s Bruker Tensor 27 or Alpha FT-IR instruments . Pre-Installation Notes System Requirements: Windows (Windows 7 & Windows 8 Recommend17178 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:41:28 GMTWed, 03 Jan 2024 16:41:28 GMT