CCL: Chemsitry Structure Drawing Tools in Linux environment



Hi,

to produce publication quality figures you want to use ChemDraw or IsisDraw. JDraw and Chemdoodle produce crappy structures and you will recognize those immediately in lots of physical/theoretical chemistry journals by their strange look. I have tried those myself. My recommendation is to run ChemDraw in a virtual machine. It's not fun, but gives you good results. 

Cheers,
Arne

On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:30 AM, "Victor Rosas Garcia rosas.victor(-)gmail.com" <owner-chemistry::ccl.net> wrote:

Hello Parthi,

I have used BKChem for several years for publication-quality structural drawings without much of a problem. It is platform-independent because it is based on Python.  Some distributions, such as Debian and Ubuntu, include it in their repositories, but you can also download it > from: http://bkchem.zirael.org/
It can produce nice EPS, PNG and PDF images and its main drawback is that it cannot export to TIFF format, that some journals prefer.  It can also export to OpenOffice Draw format, so it gives you a lot of flexibility about how to incorporate drawings into your manuscript.

Hope this helps.

Victor

You can also try ChemTool, EasyChem and XDrawChem, all available from the Ubuntu repositories.

2011/10/5 parthiban srinivasan coparthi[]reverseinformatics.com <owner-chemistry^^ccl.net>

Sent to CCL by: "parthiban  srinivasan" [coparthi:+:reverseinformatics.com]
Dear Members

We would like to move from WNIDOWS to LINUX platform.

As you may know that the Chemistry structure drawing tools, viz ChemDraw  and ISIS Draw, which are supported only by WINDOWS and not by LINUX.  We would like to know the possibilities of working with these softwares in linux environment. Alternately, are there any equivalent softwares available in the market which have all the features similar to ChemDraw and ISISDraw.

Thank you very much in advance for your replies.

Best regards
Parthi



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