JChemPaint is computer

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, a

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and

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for chemical structures using 2D computer graphics.''JChemPaint - Using the Collaborative Forces of the Internet to Develop a Free Editor for 2D Chemical Structures'', Stefan Krause, Egon Willighagen and Christoph Steinbeck, ''Molecules'' 2000, 5, 93-98
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/ref> It is free and open-source software, released under a

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(LGPL). It is written in

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and so can run on the operating systems

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, and

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. There is a ''standalone application'' (editor), and two varieties of ''applet'' (editor and viewer) that can be integrated into web pages. JChemPaint was initiated by

Christoph Steinbeck Christoph Steinbeck (born 1966 in Neuwied) is a German chemist and has a professorship for analytical chemistry, cheminformatics and chemometrics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Thuringia, Germany. Education Steinbeck received his ...

and is currently being developed as part of The

Chemistry Development Kit The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) is computer software, a library in the programming language Java, for chemoinformatics and bioinformatics. It is available for Windows, Linux, Unix, and macOS. It is free and open-source software distributed ...

(CDK), and a

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(SWT) based JChemPaint application is being developed, as part of Bioclipse.

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