ChemDraw Prime / ChemBioOffice   howto

Starting December 2022 the ChemOffice+ license is being replaced by a ChemDraw Prime campus license. ChemDraw Prime is a complete “entry-level” drawing program that provides all the tools you need to quickly create chemically intelligent, publication-ready chemical structures and reactions, laboratory notes and experiment write-ups. As well as a full set of chemical structure essentials such as rings, bonds, chains, atoms and functional groups, ChemDraw Prime includes chemical and lab equipment templates and handy TLC and Gel Electrophoresis Plate drawing tools. ...

LabVIEW   howto

C&CZ administers the licenses for the use of LabVIEW within FNWI. LabVIEW by NI is a graphical programming environment engineers use to develop automated research, validation, and production test systems. From version 2022Q3 LabVIEW no longer works standalone and unlimited in terms of time. C&CZ manages a LabVIEW license server with a small number of licenses that have to be renewed every year. Users of this license must be registered on the license server. ...

Updated Feb 3, 2023  ·  Peter van Campen · Created Mar 18, 2022

Gaussian   howto

Prerequisities Science (CNCZ) account. Being member of the qm, qmorgchem or qmteaching and gaussian groups (ask Jan for access). Vpn (when working from home). SSH client (linux usually has OpenSSH, windows - for instance MobaXterm or Putty). X11 client (linux usually has OpenSSH, windows - for instance MobaXterm (optional) WinSCP Video guides GUIDE how to setup environment for Gaussian calculations in windows. Setting-up the environment (to be done once) To submit calculations easily you need to set-up the environment first. ...

Updated Dec 31, 2023  ·  Ben Polman · Created Dec 13, 2021

Mathematica   howto

Mathematica is a mathematical software package made by Wolfram Research. C&CZ manages the network license for the concurrent use of Mathematica within Radboud University. The license for a small number, ca. 20, of concurrent users of Mathematica, is paid for by C&CZ and may be used freely by students and staff of the Faculty of Science. Until the end of 2023, there temporarily was an unlimited license for all RU staff and students. Users/departments from other parts of the campus can use Mathematica for a yearly reimbursement of the license costs. ...

Updated Dec 19, 2023  ·  Peter van Campen · Created Dec 5, 2021

Maple   howto

Maple by Waterloo Maple’s Maplesoft is an interactive computer-algebra system, for which C&CZ has acquired a license. The license of Maple is a 4-user concurrent license in 2023 and a 2-user in 2024.

Updated Dec 1, 2023  ·  Peter van Campen · Created Dec 5, 2021

GitLab   howto

About GitLab “GitLab is an incredibly powerful open source code collaboration platform, git repository manager, issue tracker and code reviewer.” Quoted from the GitLab website Logging in Info ...

VPN   howto

VPN A VPN makes it possible to get secure access to the internet or to the campus network from anywhere. The computer at home (or anywhere on the internet) in the latter case becomes part of the campus network. In this way you can get access to services that are normally only accessible from computers on campus. The most common of such services are connecting to disk shares or to special servers. ...

Printing   howto

Printing Through the Radboud University printing system, students and employees are able to print, scan, and copy anywhere on campus, regardless of the location or building at which they study or work. When printing, you send your print job to a print queue instead of a specific printer. The next step is to simply retrieve your print job from any printer. Read more… Printing from own laptop. In case printing does not work on self managed devices, documents can be uploaded to https://peage.ru.nl. Other workarounds are described here. ...

MestreNova   howto

Mnova is a multivendor software suite designed for processing data from NMR, LC-MS, GC-MS, and Electronic & Vibrational Spectroscopic techniques (UV-VIS, FT-IR etc.). Mnova is available for installation on Windows, Linux, and MacOS machines. Employees and students from the Faculty of Science can install mestreNova under the university site licence on their personal computer. Currently the faculty holds a site license for MNova 15. Installation & license files can be found on the install share in \install\science\MestreNova. ...

Laptop pool   howto

Lending laptop pool General remarks The Faculty of Science has a pool of 60 RU-standard laptops that can be lent by employees and students of the Faculty. These are standard-RU laptops. They are almost identical in use to the pc’s in the computer labs. The main difference is that reservation is not through Housing & Logistics. The reservation of the laptops is administered by the Library of Science. Use for FNWI education has precedence. ...

Updated Oct 27, 2025  ·  Simon Oosthoek · Created Aug 14, 2020