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Company pride. This is the best description of what we feel for having distributed one quarter of a million copies of our chemical structure drawing software around the world. We are happy to have contributed to the dissemination of electronic tools which allow students, professors, and scientists worldwide to produce high quality chemical structure renderings for their publications and lecture courses.
ACD/ChemSketch was originally made available as freeware in 1998. Now, almost 5 years later, 250,000th copy of our award winning and highly reviewed software has been downloaded. Antony Williams, VP of Scientific Development and Marketing, comments, "ACD/ChemSketch has continued to develop based on the valuable feedback of our users, especially the comments of our freeware users. Our structure databasing software ACD/ChemFolder is a derivative of ChemSketch based on user requests. Our recent integration to allow chemical structure database display on both the Palm® and Pocket PC platforms provides truly Mobile Chemistry™ as well as worldwide distribution. The ongoing feedback and comments from users continues to drive our development forward and keep us active in continuing development of the premier molecular structure drawing software."
Our support of education has enabled ACD/ChemSketch to become the primary educational software for chemical representation used today. Many schools around the world have accepted donations of site licenses of our Freeware and standardized on ACD/ChemSketch.
Downloads continue at an average of 300 ChemSketch freeware copies per day, and a total transfer of over 4 Gbytes of ACD/Labs Freeware, including new ChemSketch templates, ACD/3D Viewer, integrated spectral viewers, and ACD/ChemBasic.
The freeware version of ChemSketch is also integrated with ACD/I-Lab. This enables the desktop drawing tool to access the strength of ACD/Labs prediction modules online at our central server. When the user has logged on to I-Lab, a number of menus become available for systematic naming, physicochemical property prediction, NMR prediction, and database searching by structure and substructure. An example screen shot is shown below. Although this is a commercial service, certain properties are available at no charge including ACD/IUPAC names from chemical structures. Presently this service generates about 200 IUPAC Names per day. To access I-Lab visit http://ilab.acdlabs.com/.
The worldwide web has truly been the enabling technology in allowing the worldwide distribution of ChemSketch according to the statistical map below. We have confirmed users of ChemSketch, not just downloaders, in such far-flung places as Cote d'Ivoire, the Cook Islands, the Wallis and Fortuna Islands, Uzbekistan, Tonga, Paraguay, and Qatar, to name just a few.
The commercial version of ACD/ChemSketch, version 7.0, provides a series of significant enhancements relative to the Freeware. These include structure searching of documents containing molecular structures, support of Markush structures and polymers, and direct export of Adobe PDF files to produce structure-searchable PDF files. The commercial software also includes a Dictionary containing over 100,000 names and many new templates of glassware and chemical classes. The commercial software can be purchased by contacting us or a distributor in your area.
We expect that ChemSketch will continue its steady ascent toward becoming the premier chemical structure software and that feedback from our users will continue to motivate us to innovate and improve its capabilities. As it is, we are proud to have benefited the scientific community with one of the best chemical structure drawing tools available today!
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