The last poll has closed and the results are close. 45% voted to tier ChemDoodle into Basic and Pro packages while 55% voted for everyone to receive all the features for the same price. We listen to all of the suggestions from our users and majority rules: we will not be tiering ChemDoodle. Please keep [...]

The entire interface has been polished for ChemDoodle 3 and it looks spectacular. Of all the windows in ChemDoodle though, the Preferences window has seen the most drastic changes. Here are some images. ChemDoodle 3 is a free upgrade for all customers of ChemDoodle 1 or 2.
By the way, many have asked what is taking [...]

One frequent comment from ChemDoodle users is that it takes too many clicks to draw a structure. Well, we have listened to your suggestions and have provided two significant changes in ChemDoodle 3 to make sketching structures easy and quick, while remaining intuitive. The first change is an overhaul of the lasso and transform tools [...]

The latest nightly build of WebKit provides anti-aliasing for WebGL rendered scenes. Anti-aliasing makes edges look smooth and allows objects to blend together and move without looking jagged. Molecules in the 3D ChemDoodle Web Components now look fantastic and animations are smoother than ever. The following image shows the difference between the rendering of a [...]

ChemDoodle 3 is a very powerful chemical graphics and publishing environment. We have also invested a lot of effort over the last year in providing a credible and thorough database of elemental data as well as an advanced engine for performing cheminformatics algorithms to power ChemDoodle. While the function of ChemDoodle is still to create [...]

ChemDoodle 3 contains a new widget to allow you to search your hard drive and any attached storage devices for chemical structures. With the ability to interpret at least 21 chemical file formats listed below, you will be able to find the old files you thought you lost a long time ago and edit them [...]

ChemDoodle 3 has the ability to generate ChemDoodle Web Components for you, so you do not need to master Javascript to build dynamic and interactive chemical structures and components for your web pages. Before I continue, I would like to reiterate that ChemDoodle 3 is a free upgrade to all customers that purchased ChemDoodle 1 [...]

We are happy to announce the release of the 3D ChemDoodle Web Components based on WebGL technology. Kevin has published a nice introduction to the new product on MacResearch. Feel free to try them out!
We have seen some nice press since the 3D ChemDoodle Web Components were released this morning. Here are a few links:

Giles [...]

Peter Ertl, of JME fame, wrote a brief overview of the trend towards web-based chemical applications in the open Journal of Cheminformatics. He describes ChemDoodle Web Components in the section titled Future of Molecule Editing on the Web:

“Another interesting cheminformatics JavaScript application is a collection of components called ChemDoodle (37); this includes 2D and 3D [...]

We have received a few emails asking us to provide ChemDoodle on the iPad. We have had several internal discussions since the unveiling of the product, and I regret to state that we will not be providing ChemDoodle on that platform anytime soon. However, we are continuing to research tablet and hand-recognition technologies relevant to [...]