Introduction to MarvinView

MarvinView is an advanced chemical viewer for single and multiple chemical structures, queries, and reactions.

It has a rich (and growing) list of visualization features, is chemically aware and is able to call ChemAxon’s structure based calculation plugins for loaded structures.

Rich viewing:

  • Wide range of file types supported: MOL, MOL2, SDF, RXN, RDF (V2000 / V3000), SMILES, SMARTS/SMIRKS (recursive), MRV, InChi, CML, PDB etc.;

  • Copy and paste between different viewers/editors;

  • Table, spreadsheet, and single molecule views;

  • 2D/3D representation and animation;

  • Export option in graphic formats (JPG, PNG, BMP, POV, SVG, EPS, PDF, EMF);

  • Non-chemical data, such as SDF fields can be displayed;

  • User and developer definable visualization styles (colours, structure representations, etc.)

Chemically aware :

  • Structure based calculations can be called directly from MarvinView. For a complete listing of functions please see the Calculator Plugins section;

  • Advanced stereochemistry functions (E/Z for double bonds, R/S for chiral atoms, ABS/OR/AND enhanced stereo labels, etc.);

  • 2D cleaning;

  • 3D conformer generation;

  • Isotopes, charges radicals, lone pairs, and aliases are supported;

Cross platorm delivery :

  • Marvin can run on all major operating systems and is available in the following distributions:

    • Java Applets can easily be implemented into Java enabled web pages without the need for the user to install software or plugins;

    • Java Beans can be directly installed to give standalone desktop applications and can also be used to integrate Marvin into Java based applications,

    • Java Web Start enables web delivery of end user applications;

    • .NET package makes it possible to integrate Marvin into .NET applications.