Marvin – draw and visualize chemistry
Marvin is a collection of tools for drawing, displaying and characterizing chemical structures, queries, macromolecules and reactions
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Chemical Drawing
MarvinSketch allows users to quickly draw molecules using several built-in functionality.
Property prediction
Implements Calculator plugins that allow users to directly characterize molecules on the canvas.
Switch chemical file types
MolConverter is a command line program that converts between various file types.
Ease of visualization
MarvinView and MarvinSpace allows 2D and 3D small molecule and protein visualization.
What’s in the box?
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.
MarvinSpace is a 3D visualization tool for small molecules, proteins, nucleic acids or crystals. Using MarvinSpace you can also visualize various molecular surfaces, molecular orbitals as well as volumetric data such as electrostatic potential, hydrophobicity. Manual editing in 3D is also suported.
MarvinView is an advanced chemical viewer for single and multiple chemical structures, queries, reactions and non chemical data included in the file. MarvinView allows easy scrolling of thousands of molecules either in a grid view or in a spreadsheet view. In addition to the support of reporting and publishing MarvinView also enables users to perform structure calculations.
Chemical feature parade in Marvin
Opens various file formats
Marvin supports a wide range of standard file formats: MOL, MOL2, SDF, RXN, RDF (V2000/V3000), SMILES, SMARTS/SMIRKS (recursive), MRV, InChi, CML, PDB.
Display and Formatting
MarvinSketch supports various molecule display and formatting options enabling users to generate high quality structure images for reporting or publication purposes.
Ease of chemical structure drawing
MarvinSketch allows users to quickly draw molecules using its several built-in functionality such as customizable shortcuts, sprout drawing, popup menus, user friendly and customizable interface.
Atom properties
MarvinSketch can assign stereochemistry, charge, valence, radicals and isotopes.
Bond properties
Single, double, triple and aromatic forms are supported, moreover using wedge bonds user can assign stereochemistry to atoms.
Query drawing
Atom lists, bond lists, not lists, generic atoms, R-groups are some of the query building features available in MarvinSketch.
Reaction drawing
MarvinSketch allows single step reaction drawing and mapping.
Structure checker
Structure checker highlights inappropriate chemical structures and offers a solution.
Macromolecule visualization
MarvinSpace displays protein structures in 3D.
What flavors can I get that in?
Marvin can be easily installed on most operating systems (Windows, Linux, Apple) either 32-bit or 64-bit platforms and seamlessly integrates into web pages and third party applications via its Application Programming Interface (API).
Marvin is available in the following distributions:
Java Applets
Implement into Java enabled web pages.
Java Beans
Install on your desktop or implement in your custom application.
Java Web Start
Deploy end user applications via the web.
.NET
Native integration within .NET applications.