BUDAPEST, Hungary, December 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ChemAxon, a software
solutions provider for life sciences today announced the release of version
3.0 of its Java based cheminformatics suite, JChem and version 3.5 of Marvin,
its Java based chemical, reaction and query editor and viewer.
As the first commercially available Java based cheminformatics toolkit
technology, JChem provided an OS independent platform for building
cheminformatics capabilities for life science research. The release of
version 3.0 sees many new features and improvements.
For Oracle (TM) users the JChem Cartridge shows significant improvements
in speed and capabilities allowing full use of JChem's powerful Chemical
Terms query language during complex searching directly from Oracle (TM)
environments. The clustering functions of JKlustor also see improvements with
the addition of Maximum Common Substructure searching, allowing users to
identify and visualise the hierarchy of common substructures within a
compound set. Searching is further extended within JChem Base with the
addition of superstructure searching. To explore JChem please visit our
online implementation, details here:
ChemAxon's Calculator Plugins are structure based predictions for an
increasing range of properties. The technology is an open format allowing
user developed plugins and can be accessed directly from Marvin, through
command line for batch processing or performed 'on the fly' as a part of a
complex structure search when called from ChemAxon's Chemical Terms query
language. The new plugin, Topology Analysis, allows users to calculate
molecular properties, including number of various ring types, rotatable
bonds, etc. from topology. The current list of available plugins includes;
pKa, logP, logD, polar surface area (PSA), charge distribution,
polarizability prediction, H-bond acceptor/donor, major microspecies,
refractivity and Huckel analysis. To evaluate, please visit our unlimited
trial at http://www.chemaxon.com/demos/try_marvin.html
ChemAxon's software has seen many recent deployments in the public
sphere, including ChemIDplus from the National Library of Medicine's
Specialized Information Services at the National Institutes of Health, as
well as Ligand Depot and the Protein Data Bank's beta site, operated by the
Research Collaboratory for Bioinformatics. For links to these implementations
please visit: http://www.chemaxon.hu/forum/forum28.html.
To freely evaluate ChemAxon's JChem and Marvin toolkits please visit our
website. Academic researchers and schools can receive free licenses for all
ChemAxon toolkits under our Academic Package program, conditions and
application can be reviewed here: http://www.chemaxon.hu/forum/ftopic193.html.
ChemAxon is a leader in providing Java based chemical software
development platforms for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
With core capabilities including; structure visualization and management,
property prediction, virtual synthesis, screening and drug design, ChemAxon
focuses upon active interaction with users and core portability to create
powerful, cost effective cross platform solutions and programming interfaces
to power modern cheminformatics and chemical communication.
For further information please visit www.chemaxon.com
SOURCE ChemAxon Ltd.