Plexus Analysis Installation Requirements

Plexus Analysis, like the other members of the "Plexus family", is a web application, which runs on a central server and users can interact with it through a web browser on their own client computer.

Running Plexus Analysis standalone or integrated to another Plexus tool has the following requirements:

Hardware and software requirements

On the server side:

  • Java 8 distributed by Oracle.

On the client side:

  • JavaScript enabled web browser. Currently supported browsers are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 10 or higher, Microsoft Edge and Safari 7 or higher.

License requirement

Running Plexus Analysis requires the Plexus Analysis license. A valid license file has to be placed in the ${HOME}/.chemaxon/licenses/ (in Unix systems) or in the %USERPROFILE%\chemaxon\licenses\ (in Windows systems) folder, where ${HOME} (or %USERPROFILE%) means the home directory of the user running the web server.

The Plexus Analysis license covers the followings:

  • the functionality of the Plexus Analysis tool;

  • calculating physico-chemical properties and adding calculated columns to the compound database through Plexus Connect;

  • sending chemical and alphanumeric data from Connect to Analysis.

Please consult our sales team ([email protected]) if you would like to require a license for Plexus Suite or if you need help in handling your license file.

Installation

Integration with Plexus Connect

You need only start Connect with parameter -Dplexus.analysis.url=http://urlToPlexusAnalysis .