DebiChem Project
Summary
2d structure editors
DebiChem 2D structure editors

This metapackage will install 2D structure editors which might be useful for chemists.

The list to the right includes various software projects which are of some interest to the DebiChem Project. Currently, only a few of them are available as Debian packages. It is our goal, however, to include all software in DebiChem which can sensibly add to a high quality Debian Pure Blend.

For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:

If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for DebiChem to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the DebiChem mailing list

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DebiChem 2d structure editors packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Bkchem
Chemical structures editor
Maintainer: Debichem Team
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BKchem is a free chemical drawing program, which is written in Python.

Some of the features, you can expect:

  • Drawing (bond-by-bond drawing; templates for common rings; expanding of common-groups; draws radicals, charges, arrows; color support ...)
  • Editing (unlimited undo and redo capabilities; aligning; scaling; rotation (2D, 3D) ...)
  • Export/Import (fully supported SVG-, OpenOffice.org-Draw-, EPS-export; basic support for CML1 and CML2 import and export)
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Chemtool
chemical structures drawing program
Maintainer: Debichem Team
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fieldchemistry
interfacex11
roleprogram
scopeapplication
uitoolkitgtk
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Chemtool is a GTK+ based 2D chemical structure editor for X11. It supports many bond styles, most forms of text needed for chemical typesetting and splines/arcs/curved arrows.

Drawings can be exported to MOL and PDB format, SVG or XFig format for further annotation, as a PiCTeX drawing, as a bitmap or as Postscript files (several of these through XFig's companion program transfig).

The package also contains a helper program, cht, to calculate sum formula and (exact) molecular weight from a chemtool drawing file. Cht can either be called directly by Chemtool or on the console.

Please cite: Matthias Brüstle: Chemtool - Moleküle zeichnen mit dem Pinguin. (eprint) Nachr. Chem. 49(11):1310-1313 (2001)
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Easychem
Draw high-quality molecules and 2D chemical formulas
Maintainer: Debichem Team
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EasyChem is a program that helps you creating high quality diagrams of molecules and 2D chemical formulas that can be exported to PDF, PS, LaTeX and fig.

EasyChem was originally developed to create diagrams for chemistry books and is now frequently used for this purpose in commercial and non-commercial chemistry-related books.

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Gchempaint
2D chemical structures editor for the GNOME2 desktop
Maintainer: Debichem Team
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GChemPaint is an editor for 2D chemical structures with a multiple document interface. Drawn molecules can be searched at NIST Webbook and PubChem.

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Xdrawchem
Chemical structures and reactions editor
Maintainer: Georges Khaznadar
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Xdrawchem is a 2D editor for chemical structures and reactions. It mirrors the abilities of the commercial ChemDraw suite and has file compatibility with it as well as other chemical formats through OpenBabel.

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Packaging has started and developers might try the packaging code in VCS

Osra - wnpp
optical structure recognition application
License: free
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Version: 1.4.0-1

OSRA (Optical Structure Recognition Application) is a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical structures, as they appear in journal articles, patent documents, textbooks, trade magazines etc., into SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) or SD files - computer recognizable molecular structure formats. OSRA can read a document in any of the over 90 graphical formats parseable by ImageMagick - including GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PDF, PS etc., and generate the SMILES or SDF representation of the molecular structure images encountered within that document.

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