Chemistry Development Kit
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| The Chemistry Development Kit | |
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<tr><th>Developer:</th><td>The CDK Project</td></tr><tr><th>Latest release:</th><td>20060714 / September 7, 2006</td></tr><tr><th>OS:</th><td>Cross-platform</td></tr> | |
| Use: | Chemoinformatics/Molecular modelling/Bioinformatics
<tr><th>License:</th><td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td></tr> |
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| Website: | cdk.sourceforge.net |
The Chemistry Development Kit is an open source Java library for Chemoinformatics and Bioinformatics. It is available for Windows, Unix, and Mac OS. It is distributed under the GNU LGPL.
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[edit] History
The CDK was created in 2000 by the developers of Jmol and JChemPaint to provide a common code base.
[edit] Major features
[edit] Chemoinformatics
- 2D diagram editing and generation
- 3D geometry generation
- substructure search using exact structures and SMARTS-like queries
- QSAR descriptor calculation
- fingerprint calculation
- force field calculations
- many chemical input/output formats
[edit] Bioinformatics
- protein active site detection
[edit] General
- Python wrapper
- Ruby wrapper
- active user community
- newsletter: CDK News
[edit] References
- Steinbeck, C.; Han, Y. Q.; Kuhn, S.; Horlacher, O.; Luttmann, E.; Willighagen, E.L. The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK): An open-source Java library for chemo- and bioinformatics. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 2003, 43, 493-500. DOI:10.1021/ci025584y Entrez PubMed 12653513
- Steinbeck, C.; Hoppe, C.; Kuhn, S.; Floris, M.; Guha, R.; Willighagen, E.L. Recent developments of the chemistry development kit (CDK) - an open-source java library for chemo- and bioinformatics.. Current pharmaceutical design 2006, 12, 2111-20. DOI:10.2174/138161206777585274 Entrez PubMed 16796559
[edit] See also
</div>- Bioclipse - a Eclipse/RCP based chemo-/bioinformatics workbench
- Jmol - Java 3D renderer (applet and application)
- JOELib - Java version of OpenBabel/OELib
- JChemPaint (JCP) - Molecule editor
