ISISDraw (Accelrys): Back in the day, the only free equivalent to ChemDraw. Closed sourced (obviously C++ code?), good bunch of templates and assets, mature interfacing with other stuff in its suite (Notebook etc.) I’ve always thought of them as the real-world equivalent of a kinetic trap. You pay for each platform and features are deliberately crippled on the “lower end” versions (really? I need to pay through the nose to get SMILES import?) Rotware. Locks files in proprietary CDX formats, pricey even for academic versions, never updated.
#How to change a molecule in chemdoodle software
What other sketching software should I know about and what are your experiences with them?ĬhemDraw (CambridgeSoft): the “industrial standard” (that I detest). A more comprehensive look will come later (as in, a month or two later) this post is interim notes to remind myself for later, and an invitation for readers’ comments. The existing reviews on the Net dates to 2004/5, so a fresh look at the current capabilities will be useful to the chemist community. The latest one I’ve checked out is ChemDoodle, which is somewhat new and have some good things going on. There’s at least a dozen chemical structure editors running under different kinds of licenses and platform, and (ugh) none of them are truly satisfactory.