ChemDoodle Web Components: HTML5 toolkit for chemical graphics, interfaces, and informatics

Melanie C Burger

doi:10.1186/s13321-015-0085-3

ChemDoodle Web Components: HTML5 toolkit for chemical graphics, interfaces, and informatics

J Cheminform. 2015 Jul 16:7:35. doi: 10.1186/s13321-015-0085-3. eCollection 2015.

Author

Melanie C Burger¹

Affiliation

¹ Biomedical Communications, Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, HSC 308, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6 Canada ; Imagineeringart.com Inc., 208 Bloor Street West Suite 300, Toronto, ON M5S 3B4 Canada.

Abstract

ChemDoodle Web Components (abbreviated CWC, iChemLabs, LLC) is a light-weight (~340 KB) JavaScript/HTML5 toolkit for chemical graphics, structure editing, interfaces, and informatics based on the proprietary ChemDoodle desktop software. The library uses <canvas> and WebGL technologies and other HTML5 features to provide solutions for creating chemistry-related applications for the web on desktop and mobile platforms. CWC can serve a broad range of scientific disciplines including crystallography, materials science, organic and inorganic chemistry, biochemistry and chemical biology. CWC is freely available for in-house use and is open source (GPL v3) for all other uses.Graphical abstractAdd interactive 2D and 3D chemical sketchers, graphics, and spectra to websites and apps with ChemDoodle Web Components.

Keywords: Animations; Canvas; ChemDoodle Web Components; Chemical graphics; Cheminformatics; HTML5; JavaScript; Structure editor; Structure query; WebGL.

Publication types

Review