MarvinSketch

MarvinSketch is an advanced chemical editor for drawing chemical structures, queries and reactions. It has a rich (and growing) list of editing features, is chemically aware and is able to call ChemAxon's structure based calculation plugins for structures on the canvas.

Rich editing:
  • wide range of file types supported: MOL, MOL2, SDF, RXN, RDF (V2000/V3000), SMILES, SMARTS/SMIRKS (recursive), MRV, InChi, CML, PDB etc
  • Copy and paste between different editors
  • Abbreviated groups
  • Pre-loaded structure templates and "My Templates"
  • 3D editing
  • 3D geometry and conformer generation
  • 2D cleaning and conformer generation
  • Advanced query features (generic atoms and bonds, atom lists/not lists, query properties, pseudo atoms, multiple groups, Link nodes, etc)
  • Creating and editing molecule sets (without a database)
  • Multipage documents and printing support
  • Drawing and formatting shapes, arrows and text boxes
  • Structure annotation
  • User definable customisable styles (colours, structure representations, etc)
Chemically aware
  • Structure based calculations can be called directly from MarvinSketch. For a complete listing of functions please see the Calculator Plugins section
  • Error checking (valence and reaction error checking)
  • Structure query design (R-logic, SMARTS properties, etc)
  • Isotopes, charges radicals, lone pairs and aliases are supported
  • Manual and automapping for reaction drawing
  • Advanced stereochemistry functions (E/Z double bonds, R/S chirality, ABS/OR/AND enhanced stereo, etc)
Cross platform delivery
  • Marvin can run on all major operating systems, it is available in the following distributions:
    • Java Applets can easily be implemented into Java enabled web pages without the need for the user to install software or plugins
    • Java Beans can be directly installed to give standalone desktop applications and can also be used to integrate Marvin into Java based applications
    • Java Web Start enables web delivery of end user applications
    • .NET package makes it available to integrate Marvin into .NET applications