CLUSTER MOLECULAR-CHEMISTRY-DIMENSIONAL · 20 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2005-09-09
Molecular editing and visualization tools
This cluster comprises 24 products for drawing, editing, visualizing, and analyzing molecular structures across chemistry, structural biology, and materials science. The dated entries (13) appear sporadically from 2005, with a long gap until 2018, then a gradual increase in frequency, with multiple entries in 2024, 2025, and 2026. ChemUI is the traction leader with 1 star, while chemmanager and ChemCanvas have 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 4 hobby · 11 open source · 5 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01hitran-mcp2★27 dayslivehobbyDesktop and API tool for retrieving molecular spectral data, computing absorption spectra, and plotting results for researchers.
- 02ChemUI1★1 moliveFrontend interface for computational chemistry that supports molecular dynamics, similarity search, and materials workflows.
- 03biochem-lab0★17 days—hobbyInteractive education platform for biology and chemistry with formula tools, diagrams, 3D models, and a community gallery.
- 04reaction-canvas0★3 days—hobbyDesktop research assistant that turns screenshots into chemistry diagrams, with local rendering and support for a user-supplied AI model.
- 05formulation-explorer0★27 days—Interactive tool for exploring formulations and their chemical properties.
- 06SasView0★2 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for analyzing small-angle scattering data, including model fitting and resolution calculations.
- 07ChemCanvas0★2 moliveopen sourceA desktop tool for drawing chemical structures, reactions, and mechanisms, generating SMILES notation, calculating molecular properties, and exporting images.
- 08Vipster0★4 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for visualizing and pre- and post-processing periodic molecular structure files for computational chemistry work.
- 09avogadroapp0★4 moliveopen sourceDesktop molecular editor for building and visualizing molecular structures in chemistry and bioinformatics research.
- 10avogadro2-bin0★5 moliveopen sourceDesktop molecular editor for building and visualizing molecules used in chemistry, molecular modeling, and materials research.
- 11Avogadro0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop application for editing and visualizing molecular structures, used in computational chemistry and materials science.
- 12mdpeditor0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop tool that generates parameter input files for molecular dynamics simulations used by computational chemistry researchers.
- 13iqmol0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop molecular editor and visualization tool for building, viewing, and analyzing molecular structures with quantum chemistry software integration.
- 14Molsketch0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMolecular structure editor for drawing two-dimensional schematics of molecules for use in documents and presentations.
- 15JChemPaint0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop editor and viewer for drawing and displaying two-dimensional chemical molecule structures.
- 16molden0★unknownliveDesktop visualization application that displays molecular density and structural data generated by computational chemistry software packages.
- 17iraspa0★unknownliveDesktop visualization and editing application for exploring molecular and material science structures such as zeolites, ceramics, and metal-organic frameworks.
- 18vagabond0★unknownliveDesktop software suite for refining protein crystal structures and clustering structural datasets for crystallography research.
- 19vipster0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop molecule editor for editing periodic structures and crystal lattices in scientific research.
- 20ChemCanvas0★unknownlivehobbyDesktop application for drawing chemical structures and reactions, exporting diagrams, and retrieving compound data from chemical databases.
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