The Marvin family

Marvin is a collection of tools for drawing, displaying and characterizing chemical structures, substructures and reactions.
Marvin can be easily installed on your desktop and seamlessly integrated into web pages and third party applications via its Application Programming Interface (API).

The Marvin family consists of the following tools:

MolConverter: a command line tool for converting various file types.

What's new in version 5.3?

Structure Checker: a tool for detecting molecule features or drawing errors.
New Template Library handling: importing own molecule sets as template category, easy overview and handling in a hierarchical format.
Enhanced quality of Marvin objects embedded in MS Office documents
Sprout drawing: automatically added bond for templates and groups.
Bracket drawing tool: one-click group creation.

Detailed release notes

Applets or Beans?

Marvin is available in two packages depending on usage:

Marvin Applets for the web developer
Marvin Beans for the chemist's desktop and for the software developer.

Marvin Applets are tools for building chemical web pages, which are compatible with most browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.) They offer access from/to JavaScript and are customizable by applet parameters.
Marvin Beans are easily installable applications for the desktop and tools for integrating Marvin capabilities into any application.

Marvin for your desktop is free

You are free to download and install Marvin Beans on your desktop. Marvin Beans include all Marvin and MolConverter functionalities as well as try out versions of all of our Calculator Plugins (1 call per calculation per session).