Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:23 PM
After almost six months of development molsKetch Hydrogen is finally there. This first release will give you all you need to draw 2D molecular structures. molsKetch has several functions helping you to draw a consistant structure quickly and easily. After you've finished your molecule, you can save it in all the formats supported by OpenBabel or export it as picture for further use in other documents. Regular used molecules can be saved in the built-in library for further use.
Of course there is still much room for improvement, but basic functionality is available. For an overview of the features click here. Screenshots can be found here.
For the Debian users out there: I've prepared a package for Sid, so you're free to give it a try. Other users can compile from source for the moment. Dependencies are Qt 4.2 and OpenBabel 2.
Unfortunately, I still wasn't able to link molsKetch against OpenBabel on Windows, so open/save is disabled for the moment. This doesn't mean it's entirely useless under Windows, as you can still copy/export molecules in several graphical formats.
molsKetch is released under the GPL and can be downloaded for free with the folowing links:
As with the previous versions, I'm open for new ideas and suggestions. Also please report any bugs or problems you encounter. I'll do my best to fix them.