Directory of Drawing Resources

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Software for the generation of 2D chemical structure diagrams.

Resources in This Category

• BKchem

  http://bkchem.zirael.org/
  Free, portable, and open-source structure drawing program. Written in Python.

• ChemDoodle

  http://www.chemdoodle.com/
  Software tool for drawing chemical structures, diagrams and figures. Demo available for immediate download. ChemDoodle works on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.

• Chemical Drawing Programs Review

  http://www.gunda.hu/dprogs/
  Detailed comparison between ISIS/Draw, ChemDraw, ChemWindow, ChemSketch, Chemistry 4-D Draw, WinPLT, MarvinSketch, ChemPen, WinDrawChem, and JChemPaint.

• Chemtool

  http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/~martin/chemtool/
  Free software for drawing organic molecules and storing them as an X-Bitmap, LaTeX and XFig file. For Linux/Unix, includes source code, screenshots, and downloads.

• ChemWindow

  http://www.softshell.com/
  Program for drawing 2-D chemical structures, laboratory apparatus, and chemical engineering flowcharts.

• EasyChem

  http://easychem.sourceforge.net/
  Free Linux structure drawing program, designed with emphasis on press quality, speed of, precision, and ability to add arbitrary ornaments such as orbitals.

• Gifcreator

  http://www2.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/services/gifcreator/gif_intro.html
  Create GIFs and PNGs of 2D plots of chemical structures.

• JChemPaint

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdk/
  Free, open-source editor for 2D chemical structures. Written in Java and developed by an international team of opensource programmers.

• JME

  http://www.molinspiration.com/jme/
  Java based Molecular Editor which can create SMILES code.

• JMolDraw

  http://jmoldraw.chemit.at/
  Drawing applet written in Java for use in database applications in chemistry.

• PLT

  http://www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/plt/winplt.htm
  Shareware drawing program for Windows; capable of exporting structures as metafiles, bitmaps, and HTML pages.

• WinDrawChem/XDrawChem

  http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/
  Free structure drawing software for Windows and Unix, with simple spectral predictions. Source code available.

• XymTex

  http://www.pittstate.edu/chem/misc/xymtex.html
  A latex2e package for generating structural diagrams.

 

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