Personal experience with four kinds of chemical structure drawing software: Review on chemdraw, chemwindow, ISIS/draw, and chemsketch

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1886-1890

  Li, Zhenjiang ^a,b,c   Wan, Honggui ^a   Shi, Yuhu ^b   Ouyang, Pingkai ^b,c  

^a NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NONE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; INSTALLATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); USER INTERFACES;

CARBON RINGS; CHEMICAL DRAWING SOFTWARE; GLASSWARE; REACTION SYMBOLS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 5444223697     PISSN: 00952338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci049794h     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. http://www.chemweb.com/alchem/articles/1035208669995.html.
2. ChemDraw, CambridgeSoft Corporation, 875 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Visit http://www.camsoft.com/ for further information.
3. ChemWindow, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Sadtler, 3316 Spring Garden Str., Philadelphia, PA 19104. Visit http://www.chemwindow.com/ and preferably at http://www.informatics.bio-rad.com/ for further information.
4. ISIS/Draw, MDL Information System, 14600 Catalina Street, San Leandro, CA 94677, USA. The program (editions of 2.5 and 2.3) is available at the MDL at http://www.mdli.com/.
5. ChemSketch, Advanced Chemistry Development Inc, Toronto, Canada. The program (edition 5.x) is available at the ACD at http:/ www.acdlabs.com/.
6. Buntrock, R. E. ChemOffice Ultra 7.0. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 2002, 42 (6), 1505-1506.
7. Nicolaou, K. C.; Vourloumis, D.; Winssinger, N.; Baran, P. S. The Art and Science of Total Synthesis at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 44-122.
8. The successor of ChemWindow, KnowItAll 3.0, which contains the 'IUPAC Namelt' module, is powerful in structure-to-name and name-to-structure functions.
9. Gunda, T. E. At http://dragon.klte.hu/~gundat/rajzprogramok/dprog2.html. A previous version of this document can be found in a reshaped article form at Internet J. Chem. 2000, 3, L 25. http://www.ijc.com/articles/library/25.
10. (a) Chemistry 4-D Draw: ChemInnovation Software, Inc. Internet address at http://www.cheminnovation.com/. (b) ChemPen for Windows, by Evans, H., and Internet address at http://www.chempensoftware.com/chempen.htm. C-Design for Windows (interface in German), Internet address at http://www.chemie.tu- muenchen.de/ocl/EFontain/C-Design/. ChemFrontier for Windows, from Fujitsu Ltd., Internet address at http://www.fqspl.com.pl/chemfrontier/. (e) MolDraw for Windows, by Ugliengo, P.; Viterbo, D.; Chiari, G. Internet address at http://www.ch.unito.it/ifm/fisica/moldraw/avail.html. (f) DrawMol for Windows, Internet address at http://www.compuchem.com/.
11. (a) Chemistry 4-D Draw: ChemInnovation Software, Inc. Internet address at http://www.cheminnovation.com/. (b) ChemPen for Windows, by Evans, H., and Internet address at http://www.chempensoftware.com/chempen.htm. C-Design for Windows (interface in German), Internet address at http://www.chemie.tu- muenchen.de/ocl/EFontain/C-Design/. ChemFrontier for Windows, from Fujitsu Ltd., Internet address at http://www.fqspl.com.pl/chemfrontier/. (e) MolDraw for Windows, by Ugliengo, P.; Viterbo, D.; Chiari, G. Internet address at http://www.ch.unito.it/ifm/fisica/moldraw/avail.html. (f) DrawMol for Windows, Internet address at http://www.compuchem.com/.
12. (a) Chemistry 4-D Draw: ChemInnovation Software, Inc. Internet address at http://www.cheminnovation.com/. (b) ChemPen for Windows, by Evans, H., and Internet address at http://www.chempensoftware.com/chempen.htm. C-Design for Windows (interface in German), Internet address at http://www.chemie.tu- muenchen.de/ocl/EFontain/C-Design/. ChemFrontier for Windows, from Fujitsu Ltd., Internet address at http://www.fqspl.com.pl/chemfrontier/. (e) MolDraw for Windows, by Ugliengo, P.; Viterbo, D.; Chiari, G. Internet address at http://www.ch.unito.it/ifm/fisica/moldraw/avail.html. (f) DrawMol for Windows, Internet address at http://www.compuchem.com/.
13. (a) Chemistry 4-D Draw: ChemInnovation Software, Inc. Internet address at http://www.cheminnovation.com/. (b) ChemPen for Windows, by Evans, H., and Internet address at http://www.chempensoftware.com/chempen.htm. C-Design for Windows (interface in German), Internet address at http://www.chemie.tu- muenchen.de/ocl/EFontain/C-Design/. ChemFrontier for Windows, from Fujitsu Ltd., Internet address at http://www.fqspl.com.pl/chemfrontier/. (e) MolDraw for Windows, by Ugliengo, P.; Viterbo, D.; Chiari, G. Internet address at http://www.ch.unito.it/ifm/fisica/moldraw/avail.html. (f) DrawMol for Windows, Internet address at http://www.compuchem.com/.
14. (a) Chemistry 4-D Draw: ChemInnovation Software, Inc. Internet address at http://www.cheminnovation.com/. (b) ChemPen for Windows, by Evans, H., and Internet address at http://www.chempensoftware.com/chempen.htm. C-Design for Windows (interface in German), Internet address at http://www.chemie.tu- muenchen.de/ocl/EFontain/C-Design/. ChemFrontier for Windows, from Fujitsu Ltd., Internet address at http://www.fqspl.com.pl/chemfrontier/. (e) MolDraw for Windows, by Ugliengo, P.; Viterbo, D.; Chiari, G. Internet address at http://www.ch.unito.it/ifm/fisica/moldraw/avail.html. (f) DrawMol for Windows, Internet address at http://www.compuchem.com/.
15. (a) Chemistry 4-D Draw: ChemInnovation Software, Inc. Internet address at http://www.cheminnovation.com/. (b) ChemPen for Windows, by Evans, H., and Internet address at http://www.chempensoftware.com/chempen.htm. C-Design for Windows (interface in German), Internet address at http://www.chemie.tu- muenchen.de/ocl/EFontain/C-Design/. ChemFrontier for Windows, from Fujitsu Ltd., Internet address at http://www.fqspl.com.pl/chemfrontier/. (e) MolDraw for Windows, by Ugliengo, P.; Viterbo, D.; Chiari, G. Internet address at http://www.ch.unito.it/ifm/fisica/moldraw/avail.html. (f) DrawMol for Windows, Internet address at http://www.compuchem.com/.