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:

marvinsketch-64_invers marvinview-64_invers marvinspace-64_invers
msk mv msp

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

What's new in version 5.2?

  • Transparent background image export: emf format images exported with transparent background.
  • Periodic system coloring schemes: coloring schemes by standard state, blocks etc.
  • Charged brackets: charge signs can be placed on a bracket for groups.

Detailed release notes

Applets or Beans?

Marvin is available in two packages depending on usage:

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).