ChemAxon Launches New Prediction Tools

ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for life sciences, announced the launch of four new structure based Calculation Plugins; hydrogen bond acceptor/donor, major microspecies, reactivity and refractivity as well as the 3.4 release of Marvin, ChemAxon's Java based chemical editor and viewer. ChemAxon's Calculator Plugins are a growing range of structure based prediction tools to give chemists data useful in characterizing and understanding molecular structures. Able to be used within any cheminformatics platform, ChemAxon's Calculation Plugins are implemented within Marvin and JChem, ChemAxon's suites of cheminformatic and discovery toolkits. Existing Calculation Plugins include; pKa, logP, logD, polar surface area, charge distribution and polarizability, however as an open plugin format users can create and deploy their own prediction tools. To freely try out the plugins, website visitors should go to any of the Marvin implementations across the site, such as at http://www.chemaxon.com/marvin/sketch/demo.html. Since its launch in 1999, Marvin has become a popular and powerful chemistry editor and viewer with deployments throughout life science research, online publishing and education. The arrival of the 3.4 version sees full support for SMARTS(R) format, faster performance and conformer generation support in the 3D engine. For more information or to download the Marvin please visit http://www.chemaxon.com/marvin.