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Chemistry Development Kit




name = The Chemistry Development Kit
  developer The CDK Project
  latest Release Version 101
  latest Release Date June 26 , 2007
  operating System Cross-platform
  genre Chemoinformatics / Molecular Modelling / Bioinformatics
  license GNU Lesser General Public License
  website cdksourceforgenet



The Chemistry Development Kit is an Open Source Java library for Chemoinformatics and Bioinformatics . It is available for Windows , Unix , and Mac OS . It is distributed under the GNU LGPL .


HISTORY

The CDK was created in 2000 by Christoph Steinbeck, Egon Willighagen and Dan Gezelter, the developers of Jmol and JChemPaint , to provide a common code base.


MAJOR FEATURES


Chemoinformatics




Bioinformatics


  • protein active site detection

  • cognate ligand detection



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REFERENCES


  • Steinbeck, C.; Han, Y. Q.; Kuhn, S.; Horlacher, O.; Luttmann, E.; Willighagen, E.L. ''The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK): An open-source Java library for chemo- and bioinformatics''. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 2003, 43, 493-500.

  • Steinbeck, C.; Hoppe, C.; Kuhn, S.; Floris, M.; Guha, R.; Willighagen, E.L. ''Recent developments of the chemistry development kit (CDK) - an open-source java library for chemo- and bioinformatics.''. Current pharmaceutical design 2006, 12, 2111-20.



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