CDX Format
Encyclopedia
CDX is a binary file type created by CambridgeSoft
Corporation's ChemDraw
chemical structure application. CDXML
is the XML
and preferred version of this format.
CambridgeSoft
CambridgeSoft was a cheminformatics software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The company was founded in 1986 by Stewart Rubenstein, then a graduate student in chemistry at Harvard University, and ended operations as an independent company in 2011. The historical main product is the...
Corporation's ChemDraw
ChemDraw
ChemDraw is a molecule editor developed by the cheminformatics company CambridgeSoft. ChemDraw is, along with Chem3D and ChemFinder, part of the ChemOffice suite of programs and is available for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.-Features of ChemDraw 12.0:...
chemical structure application. CDXML
CDXML
CDXML is the XML analogue of the binary CDX file type used by CambridgeSoft Corporation's ChemDraw chemical structure application. It is considered to be the preferred format for future development.- External links :* , Documentation of File Specification...
is the XML
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
and preferred version of this format.
External links
- http://www.cambridgesoft.com/services/documentation/sdk/chemdraw/cdx/, Documentation of File Specification