Structure Editors Used with ChemSpider
Two chemical structure editors have been integrated to ChemSpider. These are the ACD/Structure
Drawing Applet and ACD/ChemSketch (including the
freeware).
The Structure Drawing Applet (SDA) is a Java-based chemical structure editor and is embedded directly into the ChemSpider website.
When you first open the webpage the applet will need to be downloaded and may take some time depending on your internet connection.
For every following visit the SDA will load quickly since it is cached on your computer. The SDA is very intuitive to use but for
an overview of commands the reference guide will help. A full manual is also available here. Please note that the following capabilities are not available in the applet despite being described in
the manual : Molecule cleaning and Reaction Drawing.
ACD/ChemSketch is a PC-based chemical structure package (also available for
Linux users) available as both commercial software
and freeware. ACD/ChemSketch freeware has been available from ACD/Labs for
a number of years and is presently available as a version 10 download. The
ChemSpider add-on to allow searches of ChemSpider via ChemSketch is also available as a download and a technical
note explaining how to install and use the add-on is available. Manuals for ChemSketch
are also available in various languages.