Symyx Technologies has announced that Symyx Draw 3.1, the chemical drawing application that replaces Isis/Draw, is now available for free download for academic and home use.
Symyx Draw 3.1 enables scientists to draw and edit complex chemical structures and reactions.
To support academic researchers, Symyx Draw 3.1 also offers publication-quality drawing capabilities for presentations, reports and scientific papers , as well as improved integration with the Microsoft Office suite of software applications.
'Symyx Draw is a major enhancement over Isis/Draw, offering improved graphics and support for IUpac names, canonical Smiles strings, InChI strings, and other useful conversion utilities,' said Dr Mariusz Gajewski, NIH-Cobre Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience, Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Montana.
Enhancements for the support of biomolecules make Symyx Draw 3.1 suitable for scientists engaged in biologics research who need to create, present, and document modified one- and three-letter peptide or nucleotide sequences.
Symyx said that Draw 3.1 is easier to use than Isis/Draw by virtue of its all-purpose drawing tool, multiple-undo, toolbar functionalities, scientific symbol chooser, large library of protecting group templates, and other usability enhancements.
Symyx Draw 3.1 is also superior to Isis/Draw in supporting enhanced stereochemical perception and in providing richer presentation- and publication-quality graphics capabilities.
Users can draw and annotate reaction schemes with text and arrows.
Font, color, and line thickness changes can be applied using the formatting toolbar.
