ChemWindow

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ChemWindow
Developer(s) Wiley
Stable release
2021 / 2021
Available inEnglish, Chinese, Japanese, German, French
Type Scientific
Website chemwindow.com

ChemWindow is a chemical structure drawing molecule editor and publishing program now published by John Wiley & Sons as of 2020, [1] originally developed by Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. [2] [3] It was first developed by SoftShell International in the 1990s. [4] Bio-Rad acquired this technology in 1996 and eventually made it part of their KnowItAll software product line, offering a specific ChemWindow edition of their software for structure drawing and publishing. [5] They have also incorporated ChemWindow structure drawing components into their KnowItAll spectroscopy software packages with their DrawIt, ReportIt, and MineIt tools. [6]

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