Chemical Drawing Programs Review
- Detailed comparison between ISIS/Draw, ChemDraw, ChemWindow, ChemSketch, Chemistry 4-D Draw, WinPLT, MarvinSketch, ChemPen, WinDrawChem, and JChemPaint.
- http://dragon.klte.hu/~gundat/rajzprogramok/dprog.html
PLT - Shareware drawing program for Windows; capable of exporting structures as metafiles, bitmaps, and HTML pages. - http://www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/plt/winplt.htm
XymTex - A latex2e package for generating structural diagrams. - http://www.pittstate.edu/chem/misc/xymtex.html
WinDrawChem/XDrawChem - Free structure drawing software for Windows and Unix, with simple spectral predictions. Source code available. - http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/
EasyChem - Free Linux structure drawing program, designed with emphasis on press quality, speed of, precision, and ability to add arbitrary ornaments such as orbitals. - http://easychem.sourceforge.net/
JMolDraw - Drawing applet written in Java for use in database applications in chemistry. - http://jmoldraw.chemit.at
JME - Java based Molecular Editor which can create SMILES code. - http://www.molinspiration.com/jme/
JChemPaint - Free, open-source editor for 2D chemical structures. Written in Java. - http://jchempaint.sourceforge.net/
Gifcreator - Create GIFs and PNGs of 2D plots of chemical structures. - http://www2.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/services/gifcreator/gif_intro.html
ChemWindow - Program for drawing 2-D chemical structures, laboratory apparatus, and chemical engineering flowcharts. - http://www.softshell.com/
Chemtool - Free software for drawing organic molecules and storing them as an X-Bitmap, LaTeX and XFig file. For Linux/Unix, includes source code, screenshots, and downloads. - http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/~martin/chemtool/
ChemInnovation Software - Chemistry 4-D Draw high-quality structures quickly by entering molecular names. It also assigns systematic names, drawing and text editing. - http://www.cheminnovation.com/
BKchem - Free, portable, and open-source structure drawing program. Written in Python. - http://www.nongnu.org/bkchem/