All documentation for licensed software is restricted to the NIH domain.

Scientific Software

• The GCG Manual, NIH/GCG Frequently Asked Questions
• MFOLD manual. Also available in PDF.
• Mathematica on helix. (Mac users should also see Mathematica on the Mac as a frontend to helix's mathematica. Mathematica FAQs
• Matlab Help and MATLAB FAQ
• Femlab
• The Cambridge Structural Database
• GPHIGS/PHIGURE Online
• AMPAC User's Manual and the Addendum (PDF)
• AMPAC GUI User's Manual (PDF)
• Insure⁺⁺
• AVS FAQs
• IDL (Interactive Data Language) FAQ
• Phylip (Phylogeny Interface Package) and Phylip FAQ
• Fastlink: [Paper 1] [Paper 2] [Paper 3] [Paper 4] [Loops in Fastlink] [Pedigree traversal] [UNKNOWN docs] (PDF)
• Povscript
• Molscript
• SPLUS5: [README] [Getting Started] [Guide to Statistics] [Guide part 2] [User's Guide] (PDF)
• XV (interactive X-windows image display) (PDF)
• L^ATEX2HTML Translator

Email

• SquirrelMail - web access to helix email.
• Email basics on helix
• Introduction to Unix Pine, a user-friendly mail program.
• Pine FAQ
• The NIH Directory and E-mail Forwarding Service allows you to lookup e-mail addresses and other information about people who use computers at NIH.
• Improve Your Email Performamce by optimizing your POP client for performance or reconfigure your client to use IMAP instead of POP.
• IMAP4 Mail Service for remote mail users of helix and the NIH Post Office servers with supplemental documentation on configuring LDAP and IMAP using
  Outlook Express
  Netscape Messenger
  PC Eudora 4
  Mac Eudora 4.2

Programming

• C FAQ
• C⁺⁺ FAQ Lite
• Fortran FAQ
• Perl FAQ
• Javac available on galaxy.nih.gov

Unix Tools

• X FAQ
• Emacs FAQ
• edt Editor Overview
• XMGR (aka ACEgr)
• xplot
• XV (PDF)

Batch Systems

• LSF Batch System -- web-based and printable (PDF) documentation.

Course/Seminar Notes

Slides and notes from courses and seminars given by the Helix Systems staff.

Also see the New Users section for information on helix accounts, disk space, backups, and policies.