October 7, 2009

Chemical structure editor

Thanks to a contest held by Metamolecular I started to think about what I believe are the most important functions for a chemical structure editor. (I use their product ChemWriter in a project of mine that hopefully will be available for public beta testing in a few months.)
Anyway, my main cirteria is ease of use! I like the editor to have simple keyboard shortcuts that are intuitive so that I remember them.
The first runners up is the looks, the editor should produce nice looking structures, preferably with the option to make custom labels that keep their chemical interpretation.

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