ChemWindow
{{Short description|Chemical structure drawing and publishing program}}
{{Infobox software
| name = ChemWindow
| latest release version = 2021
| latest release date = 2021
| developer = Wiley
| language = English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French
| genre = Scientific
| website = {{URL|chemwindow.com}}
}}
ChemWindow is a chemical structure drawing molecule editor and publishing program now published by John Wiley & Sons as of 2020,{{Cite web|url=https://sciencesolutions.wiley.com/press-release/|title = Press Release}} originally developed by Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10826079208017206#.VK1I93t0elo "Software review"]. Journal of Liquid Chromatography, Volume 15, Issue 14, 1992. via Taylor and Francis Online (subscription required)[https://books.google.com/books?id=WzrxAAAAMAAJ&q=%22ChemWindow%22+review Review of chemistry drawing software]. Laboratory Microcomputer, Volumes 12-13 It was first developed by SoftShell International in the 1990s.{{cite book|title=Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kasXAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=The Association|page=714}} Bio-Rad acquired this technology in 1996 and eventually made it part of their KnowItAll software product line, offering a specific ChemWindow edition of their software for structure drawing and publishing.Joyce, John [http://www.scientificcomputing.com/pittcon-2006-informatics-review.aspx] "Pittcon 2006 Informatics Review" "Scientific Computing" Rockaway, NJ, April, 2006. Retrieved 14 November 2012. They have also incorporated ChemWindow structure drawing components into their KnowItAll spectroscopy software packages with their DrawIt, ReportIt, and MineIt tools.{{cite book|author1=Johann Gasteiger|author2=Thomas Engel|title=Chemoinformatics: A Textbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LCD-1vHBHIAC&pg=PA142|date=13 December 2006|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-3-527-60650-4|pages=142–}}
Features
- 2D chemical structure drawing (includes stereochemical recognition){{cite book|title=Applied Spectroscopy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwZBAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Society for Applied Spectroscopy}}Larocque, Paul [https://web.archive.org/web/20160222171720/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-18509559.html "Software to draw chemical structures (ChemWindow, by Softshell International Ltd.)"], "Canadian Chemical News" Ottawa, June 1, 1996. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- Scientific publishing / reporting tools
- 3D ViewIt Input and visualization of 3D structures
- Portal with useful links for user community
- 3D presentations and 3D modeling, plus calculation of bond lengths, angles, etc.{{cite book|author=Robert G. Mortimer|title=Mathematics for Physical Chemistry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fjdw7irpuvsC&pg=PA362|year=1999|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-508340-9|pages=362–}}
- Build databases with structures and chemical property information{{cite book|author1=Günter Gauglitz|author2=Tuan Vo-Dinh|title=Handbook of Spectroscopy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RkgGVFlck6QC&pg=RA1-PA502|date=6 March 2006|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-3-527-60502-6|pages=1–}}
- Database searching (search structures and properties)
- Data plotting and visualization
- Laboratory Glassware Collection to document your experiments.
- Chemical Engineering Collection for realistic process flow diagrams
- Calculators for a) easy mole-to-mass conversion, b) calculation of mass from structure
- Mass Fragmentation Tool
- Multiple interface languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French)
- DEA Controlled Substance Prediction and Structure Classification{{Cite web|title=KnowItAll 2021 & ChemWindow Maintenance Release Available!|url=https://sciencesolutions.wiley.com/knowitall-2021-chemwindow-maintenance-release/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Wiley Science Solutions|language=en-US}}
References
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- Givan, Ray, "Quick on the Draw" "Scientific Computing World", Cambridge, UK, September, 2000.
- Joyce, John [http://www.scientificcomputing.com/pittcon-2005-informatics-review.aspx] "Pittcon 2005 Informatics Review" "Scientific Computing" Rockaway, NJ, April, 2005. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- {{cite journal |title=Personal Experience with Four Kinds of Chemical Structure Drawing Software: Review on ChemDraw, ChemWindow, ISIS/Draw, and ChemSketch |author1=Li, Z. |author2=Wan, H. |author3=Shi, Y. |author4=Ouyang, P. |journal=J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. |year=2004 |volume=44 |issue=5 |pages=1886–1890 |doi=10.1021/ci049794h |pmid=15446849}}
External links
- [https://sciencesolutions.wiley.com/chemwindow-chemical-structure-drawing-software/ ChemWindow home page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021203048/http://www.chemwindow.com/ archived ChemWindow Home Page]
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