Search_Compare

6       Tutorial

The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce you to the commands and functionalities of the Search_Compare module. Lessons involving the various pulldowns are presented separately.

Pilot Online Tutorials

To access the online tutorials for Search_Compare, click the biplane icon in the Insight II interface. (The biplane icon is the third button up from the bottom, or the bottom button, of the icon palette, depending on which release of the Insight program you are using).

When the Pilot interface appears, click the open file button in the lower leftmost of the window.

Then, from the Open Tutorial window, select Search_Compare tutorials (and, if necessary, the module) and choose from the list of available lessons:

Creating and Comparing Molecular Volumes:

Lesson 1   Comparing Butane Conformers
Lesson 2   Volumes of Weak and Strong Inhibitors

Lesson 3   Using the Overlap Pulldown
Lesson 4   Comparing Molecules Using Field Similarity

Lesson 5   Conformational Searches of Captopril 
                      Analogs
Lesson 6   Searching for Stable Conformers of a 
                      Dipeptide
Lesson 7   Distance Map Searches of ACE Analogues
Lesson 8   Searching Multiple Fused Ring 
           Systems: Application to Steroids
Lesson 9   Employing Symmetry in Duplicate 
           Removal During Searches 

Lesson 10   Using Vector Maps

Lesson 11   Use of the Background_Job Commands