Benefits for scientists

• Gather chemical data together for presentations and scientific papers
• Style the fonts, color, thickness of chemical structures, text, arrows, and lines in just a few clicks from the formatting toolbar
• Create or import 1- and 3-letter peptides, DNA, and RNA
• Draw efficiently with an all-purpose tool to continuously draw bonds, pull out rings, and add atoms
• Right-click to add context-sensitive properties and query options to atoms, bonds, fragments
• Drag and drop commonly used functional groups and queries onto the toolbar for instant reuse
• Create multiple template toolbars that you can impport and export to share with colleagues
• Save structures as images (gif, png, tif, bmp, and wmf)

Benefits for application developers

• Drop MDL Draw into Microsoft Visual Studio.NET or Java applications
• Use MDL Draw in Microsoft Internet Explorer as an applet or .NET component
• Use one-consistent drawing tool across an enterprise - Compatible with MDL® Isentris and MDL® ISIS applications
• Use XML to configure MDL Draw's look and feel to remove unneeded functionality
• Extend with Cheshire scripts to flag and clean structures according to company business rules (requires an MDL Cheshire license)
• Write custom actions that are added to buttons, menu items, or program entry and exit points
• Utilize the headless renderer (.NET version) to convert structures to images to optimize performance and memory when displaying a large number of structures in a grid