CCL: Any open-source molecular descriptor software for short peptides?

 Sent to CCL by: "tomoko niwa" [tomokoniwa a gamma.ocn.ne.jp]
 If you are interest in structure-activity relationships of bioactive
 peptides, the following article would be helpful.
 Fauchere, J. L.; Charton, M.; Kier, L. B.; Verloop, A.; Pliska, V. Amino
 Acid Side Chain Parameters for Correlation Studies in Biology and
 Pharmacology. Int. J. Pept. Protein Res. 1988, 32, 269-278.
 Application of these descriptors to structure-activity relationship
 studies, and definition of hydrophobic descriptors of amino acids are
 described in
 Sotomatsu-Niwa, T.; Ogino, A. Evaluation of the Hydrophobic Parameters
 of the Amino Acid Side Chains of Peptides and their Application in QSAR
 and Conformational Studies. THEOCHEM 1997, 392, 43-54.
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 Tomoko Niwa, Ph.D.
 Discovery Research Lab. Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd.
 14, Nishinosho-Monguchi-cho, Kisshoin,
 Minami-ku Kyoto, 601-8550 Japan
 tel +81-75-321-9010, fax +81-75-321-9038
 t.niwa a po.nippon-shinyaku.co.jp
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 On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 15:45 -0400, CCL wrote:
 > Sent to CCL by: "Lei  Huang" [hxbus]*<yahoo.com>
 > Dear CCLers:
 >
 > Could anyone recommend a nice open-source molecular descriptor
 calculation software for short peptides with 8-15 amino acid long? I
 tried to search the archives but only got the internal error message.
 Thanks.
 >
 > Lei Huang
 > University of Illinois at Chicago (M/C563)
 > Chicago, IL 60612
 > Email: hxbus at yahoo.com