August 17th, 2005, Budapest, Hungary: ChemAxon, a software solutions
provider for life sciences, today announced the release of version 4.0
of its platform independent chemical editing and visualization suite
Marvin. The release includes the launch of MarvinSpace – a new tool for
3D molecular structure visualization.

Marvin is the most advanced Java based chemical editor and visualization
toolkit available today. Marvin is comprised of 5 main user components;
MarvinSketch for creating and editing structures, queries and reactions,
MarvinView for viewing structural and non structural data, MarvinSpace
for analysing macromolecule/ligand interactions, MolConverter for
generating 2D/3D coordinates, converting chemical file types and
generating images and Calculator Plugins a growing range of structure
based calculations and predictions for properties useful in life science
research.

A unique feature of Marvin, as with all ChemAxon technology, is the
availability of a full application programming interface (API), which
combined with the technologies platform independence and web readiness
makes Marvin the primary choice for developing fully configurable custom
implementations for a global or browser access user base.

The version 4.0 release sees many new features and improvements such as
template based structure cleaning, 3D editing, lone pair support and an
attached data function to annotate atoms with user defined data. 3D
conformer generation is improved further giving increased coordinate
accuracy.

The launch of MarvinSpace extends the Marvin platform toward molecular
modelling and high definition online publishing. Although at an early
development stage, MarvinSpace already provides unique functionalities
and high performance within a fast evolving public development. To try
out MarvinSpace please visit www.chemaxon.hu/shared/MarvinSpace/index.html

The range of Calculator Plugins, currently including logP, logD, pKa,
hydrogen bond donor/acceptor, polar surface area and partial charge is
extended with the inclusion of calculations like tautomer generation and
resonance forms. The topology analysis plugin is significantly improved
to include many properties useful for QSAR. To try out Marvin and the
full range of Calculator Plugins please visit
www.chemaxon.com/demos/try_marvin.html

ChemAxon actively supports education and academic research by providing
free licenses for all of it’s toolkits to teachers and academic
researchers. To find out more please visit
www.chemaxon.hu/forum/ftopic193.html

About ChemAxon
ChemAxon is a leader in providing Java based chemical software
development platforms for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical
industries. With core capabilities including; structure visualization
and management, property prediction, virtual synthesis, screening and
drug design, ChemAxon focuses upon active interaction with users and
core portability to create powerful, cost effective cross platform
solutions and programming interfaces to power modern cheminformatics and
chemical communication.

For further information please visit www.chemaxon.com