MarvinSketch : Introduction to 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

  • Easily accessible chemical drawing functions, a lot of shortcuts;
  • Convenient editing in 2D and 3D;
  • 2D and 3D cleaning of the structures;
  • Pre-defined structure templates and user-defined custom templates;
  • Abbreviated groups;
  • Chemical name (IUPAC or traditional), CAS number or InChi can be pasted onto the canvas and get converted into chemical structures directly;
  • Wide range of file types supported: MRV, CDX, SKC, SDF, RDF (V2000/V3000), RXN, MOL, MOL2, SMILES, SMARTS, InChi, CML, FASTA, etc.;
  • Copy and paste between different chemical editors; drag&drop feature;
  • Inserting editable chemical structures (as Marvin OLE objects) into MS Office documents;
  • Advanced query features;
  • Handling polymers and biomolecules;
  • User definable customizable styles (fonts, colors, structure representations, etc.);
  • Drawing and formatting shapes, arrows and text boxes;
  • Multipage documents and printing support.

Chemically aware

  • Isotopes, charges, radicals, lone pairs and aliases;
  • Error checking (valence error and structure checking);
  • Advanced stereochemical functions;
  • Structure based Calculator Plugins - for calculations of different chemical properties - can be called directly from MarvinSketch;
  • Structure query design (R-logic, SMARTS properties, etc.);
  • Manual and automatic mapping for reaction drawing;

Cross platorm delivery

  • Marvin can run on all major operating systems;
  • Java Beans can be directly installed to give standalone desktop applications and can also be used to integrate Marvin into Java based applications;
  • Java Applets can easily be implemented into Java enabled web pages without the need for the user to install software or plugins;
  • Java Web Start enables web delivery of end user applications;

  • .NET package makes it available to integrate Marvin into .NET applications.