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).
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).
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.
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MarvinView
MarvinView is an advanced, Java based chemical viewer for single and multiple chemical structures, queries and reactions. It has a rich (and growing)
MarvinSpace
MarvinSpace is a high performance 3D molecule visualization tool available on a range of platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris. MarvinSpace is WEB enabled, its seamless integration in html pages makes it an ideal platform…
MolConverter
MolConverter is a command line program in Marvin Beans and JChem that converts between 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.
Want to download an older version of Marvin, see this listing page.
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.
