Preparing students for chemical research in the 21st century requires introducing them to computational chemistry. Computation has become a mainstay of modern chemical research: approximately 25% of JACS papers have discussed DFT calculations in recent years, and virtually every biotech startup, pharmaceutical company, or materials science company uses simulation to accelerate the pace of discovery.
Unfortunately, existing simulation tools often have complex interfaces, high learning curves, or restrictive license agreements, making it difficult and time-consuming to incorporate computational chemistry into the classroom. Rowan's modern, user-friendly interface makes it simple and easy to incorporate a wide variety of computational approaches and workflows into existing curricula.
Many methods, one unified student experience. Running sophisticated computational workflows today requires a compendium of different packages: semiempirical methods, density-functional theory, conformer-searching algorithms, structure editing, plotting outputs, and so forth. Rowan provides a single interface to a wide variety of different theories, computational methods, and workflows, making it straightforward to survey best practices across many different subfields.
We let you focus on the science, not the software or hardware. Integrating computational chemistry into curricula can be tedious and difficult, but it doesn't have to be. Rowan makes administrating and managing student accounts simple. No more long office hours where you show each student how to use bash, ssh, and slurm; no more setting up a cluster and making sure that all of the right versions of every package are installed and integrated with your batch queuing system. With Rowan, students can draw molecules right in their web browser, submit calculations to our cloud compute resources, and see easy-to-understand results in seconds.
Classroom-ready software that's not just a toy. We incorporate modern, state-of-the-art algorithms, workflows, and theories into Rowan, and we're always working to make computations faster and more accurate. That's why our software is trusted by hundreds of scientists in leading academic labs, pharmaceutical companies, and biotech startups. Teaching students to use Rowan doesn't just let them answer homework questions—it introduces them to a tool that they can use in their independent research and beyond.
I used Rowan as a teaching tool in my graduate Computational Organic Chemistry class. Students found the platform intuitive and helpful to understand key concepts, particularly conformational sampling and reactivity descriptors. Some students have continued to use Rowan in their own research projects, and I plan to expand the use of Rowan in my courses in the future.
— Alistair Sterling, UT Dallas 1
Here's an example of how Rowan can be used to demonstrate ligand effects on spin states in metal–organic complexes:
$0 per month
100 credits per week per student
$50 per student per semester
500 credits per week per student
Minimum 10 students
(One credit is one minute of CPU time.)
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