ChemAxon is a software company specializing in application programming interfaces and end user applications for cheminformatics

Cheminformatics

Cheminformatics is the use of computer and informational techniques, applied to a range of problems in the field of chemistry. These in silico techniques are used in pharmaceutical companies in the process of drug discovery...

 and life science research. The company's main customer base consists of pharmaceutical, agrochemical and biotechnology

Biotechnology

Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...

 companies, as well as academic

Academia

Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...

 research groups and third parties

Third-party software component

In computer programming, a third-party software component is a reusable software component developed to be either freely distributed or sold by an entity other than the original vendor of the development platform...

 wishing to integrate cheminformatic functionalities in their products and services.

ChemAxon Products include tools for visualization and drawing of molecules, chemical database searching and management, drug discovery. ChemAxon provides products free for academic use.

Recent innovations:

• Development of Markush structure storage and search capabilities (without enumeration), with Markush structures from Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM) database. Partnership announcement¹.

See also

• Computational chemistry
  Computational chemistry
  Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses principles of computer science to assist in solving chemical problems. It uses the results of theoretical chemistry, incorporated into efficient computer programs, to calculate the structures and properties of molecules and solids...
  
  
• Cheminformatics
  Cheminformatics
  Cheminformatics is the use of computer and informational techniques, applied to a range of problems in the field of chemistry. These in silico techniques are used in pharmaceutical companies in the process of drug discovery...
  
  
• Chemical database
  Chemical database
  A chemical database is a database specifically designed to store chemical information. This information is about chemical and crystal structures, spectra, reactions and syntheses, and thermophysical data.- Chemical structures :...
  
  
• Drug design
  Drug design
  Drug design, also sometimes referred to as rational drug design or structure-based drug design, is the inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of the biological target...
  
  
• QSAR
• Data mining
  Data mining
  Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...
  
  
• Molecule editor
  Molecule editor
  A molecule editor is a computer program for creating and modifying representations of chemical structures.Molecule editors can manipulate chemical structure representations in either two- or three-dimensions. Two-Dimensional editors generate output used as illustrations or for querying chemical...
  
  
• chemicalize.org
  Chemicalize.org
  chemicalize.org is a free chemical structure miner and web search engine developed and owned by ChemAxon. The main purpose of chemicalize.org is to identify chemical names on websites and convert them to chemical structures...
  
  

External links

• ChemAxon's official homepage
• Marvin and Calculator Plugin online implementation Free structure drawing/image generation and structure based predictions; pKa, logP, logD, name<>structure, polar surface area (PSA), H-bond acceptor/donor, conformer, topology analysis, etc
• chemicalize.org Public resource for visualizing chemistry on web pages and generating structure properties