I am always intrigued by the many ways people use
Mathematica. But it was even more exciting to be a part of the
American Chemical Society Fall 2009 National Meeting and hear the true excitement and awe of our users' latest discoveries of what is possible in
Mathematica. I also had a lot of fun introducing new users to our software!
In August, we traveled to ACS in beautiful Washington, DC, USA. The ACS meeting brought together the largest scientific society and its members' families, colleagues, and students. It provided an ideal venue to demonstrate
Mathematica's capabilities in
chemistry and
chemical engineering. We demonstrated a broad range of features, including
Mathematica 7's fully curated
chemical,
genomic, and
proteomic data, built-in
parallelization capabilities, and unsurpassed
modeling and visualization capabilities. The ability to visualize any data as well as update it on the fly has bridged a gap many researchers and scientists have had to work around when using other tools. You can even rapidly develop and test algorithms as well as generate accurate structural renderings in 2D and 3D using the integrated data, which is easy to retrieve programmatically.