ChemAxon

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ChemAxon
Type Private
Industry Life Sciences, Informatics, Cheminformatics
Founded 1998
Headquarters Budapest, Hungary
Website www.chemaxon.com

ChemAxon is a software company specializing in application programming interfaces and end user applications for cheminformatics and life science research research with headquarters in Budapest, Hungary and Cambridge, MA 1. The company's main customer base consists of pharmaceutical, agrochemical and biotechnology companies, as well as academic research groups and third parties wishing to integrate cheminformatic functionalities in their products and services.

ChemAxon Products include tools for visualization and drawing of molecules, chemical database searching and management, drug discovery. ChemAxon provides products free for academic use. 2

ChemAxon’s desktop applications include Marvin which is a free chemistry software for drawing and visualizing chemical structures, Instant JChem, a desktop application for end user scientists; JChem for Excel which integrates the structure handling capabilities of JChem and Marvin within a Microsoft Excel® environment. 3

Recent innovations:

  • Development of Markush structure storage and search capabilities (without enumeration), with Markush structures from Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM) database. Partnership announcement 4.
  • ChemAxon and Pearson announce the addition of ChemAxon's JChem, MarvinSketch, and MarvinView as the chemistry tools in many of Pearson MasteringChemistry courses.5

See also

References

    1. New headquarters announcement 2. Free software for the academic community 3. Desktop applications for chemists 4. Thomson Reuters Partnership announcement 5. Pearson and ChemAxon announcement

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