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MDL® Draw's fresh, new drawing capabilities make it convenient and simple for scientists to draw structures and queries for searching, registration and collaboration. Scientists can quickly create images for presentations, reports and scientific papers. MDL Draw is compatible with MDL® ISIS/Draw and can be used with ISlS applications, allowing researchers to utilize powerful new benefits of MDL Draw in conjunction with their existing applications and documents.

With MDL Draw, scientists can use dynamic templates to create complex reactions and structures with one click. They can rapidly draw structures freehand, including bonds, rings, chains and atoms, without switching back and forth between tools. And scientists can annotate reaction schemes with text and arrows, and apply font, color and line thickness changes with just a few clicks from the convenient formatting toolbar. MDL Draw serves a broad range of scientists. Premier MDL chemical representation supports sophisticated chemistry, and biomolecule drawing allows biochemists to create and import 1- and 3-letter peptides, DNA or RNA. Using the sequence tool, scientists can draw crossing bonds, disulfide bridges and attach side-chain protecting groups.

MDL Draw Enterprise Edition License

Organizations benefit from MDL Draw Enterprise Edition with its programming flexibility to integrate MDL Draw's chemical display and drawing with custom applications. Developers can drop components into Microsoft® Visual Studio.NET® or Java® applications and use XML to configure the chemical drawing look and feel according to their organization's workflow needs.

Through the software's simple, programmable interface, developers can also create custom add-ins or actions and drop them in as tools, buttons, or menu items. Structure converters, calculators, and property predictors can be added and tailored to the needs of the organization.

Since MDL Draw also integrates with Isentris and ISIS applications, it provides the ability to use one, consistent chemical drawing package across an enterprise.

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Gather chemical information together for quality presentations and reports

Draw reaction schemes and annotate with text, arrows and other graphics
In just a few clicks, easily style fonts, colors, line and arrow styles from the formatting toolbar
Helpful page-view editing shows document boundaries as you draw

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Create chemical structues for scientific papers

Simply double-click to edit structures in MDL Draw including those legacy ISIS sketches
Save structures as images (gif, png, tif, bmp, and wmf)

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Create and import 1- and 3-letter peptides, DNA, and RNA sequences

Create or import sequences from FASTA, SwissProt, PDB, EMBL, and Clipboard
Expand residues to full structure to illustrate chemical modifications



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