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ChemDoodle is a fully functional chemical drawing application that works on every operating system! In addition to being multiplatform, ChemDoodle also natively reads and writes many common file formats including ChemDraw's CDX and CDXML.

You can write ChemDraw files for submitting journal manuscripts or share these files with your rich friends who purchased ChemDraw. No longer do you need to worry if your colleages are using compatible applications or operating systems.

One of the great things about ChemDoodle is that it's not just a program for creating chemical structures or molecule drawings. It is a 2D chemical environment where anything chemistry can be incorporated. ChemDoodle's widgets are a great example of this freedom. These mini-applications perform various unique tasks such as interfacing with databases, generating and interpreting SMILES strings, and simulating multiplets.

The output from these widgets can be easily dragged right onto your document. We are always looking to add more widgets, so you may be pleasantly surprised after updating ChemDoodle, to see a new widget that appears for you to play with!

In addition to ChemDoodle's own format (ICL) and chemical document settings format (CDS), ChemDoodle can flawlessly read and write ChemDraw's CDX and CDXML, MDL MOLFiles and SDFiles, and chemical markup language (CML). If journal's do not accept ChemDoodle's ICL format or any of the vector image formats provided, just save your document as a ChemDraw file and submit that as well.

All mutually inclusive objects, including shapes and images, can be saved with almost all properties preserved. This story at iChemLabs describes the reading and writing of ChemDraw files in more detail. You may also want to use structures created in ChemDoodle with other chemical applications.

ChemDoodle fully supports MDL's formats, which have become the standard chemical file formats, and almost every chemical application will be able to load them. A wide range of native formats allows for ease in using ChemDoodle for any task.