ChemOffice: Bringing Chemical Intelligence to the Desktop
A comprehensive review from a user in the UK.
Company:
CambridgeSoft Corporation
I welcomed the opportunity to review the newly released ChemOffice suite. This is a further refinement of a suite of software based around ChemDraw, which has been the industry standard chemical structure drawing program for some years. I found the suite well resourced with databases and examples. More importantly for the user, I also found excellent integration of the three key features of chemical structure management, namely: drawing, viewing, and searching/query submission.
Additional features allowed further integration for more advanced users using database design and lookup/ retrieval, as well as automatic retrieval from chemical databases using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
Ancillary to these primary functions within chemical information management are a host of peripheral, yet powerful features, ranging from MOPAC 3D molecular structure energy minimization to property prediction. Indeed, it became apparent as I planned the review that ChemOffice is very feature rich, and an examination of the bulk of the features would .....
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