Software from Symyx

I was interested to learn that Symyx offers a chemical structure drawing package called Symyx Draw 3.1. Naturally, a company as deep into cheminformatics as Symyx is has much to offer in regard to data management. The company offers a large variety of software packages. Unfortunately, I was unable to get any pricing information straight off the web. They require that you contact them for a quotation. Having been in sales, I understand the reasons for this, but it is still less than convenient.

It would be interesting to hear from readers who have used Symyx Draw do a compare and contrast with ChemDraw.

3 thoughts on “Software from Symyx”

  1. gaussling Post author

    Thanks. The Symyx site does refer to Isis, but I was a little unclear as to what the story was. I like Chemdraw, but they do need some real competition to keep prices in line.

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  2. RTW

    Symyx Draw is finally an update to 10 year old IsisDraw. It has some nice features but is a LONG way from ever having the features and popularity of ChemDraw. One of Symyx Draws features that is new that I like is the All Purpose Drawing Tool. It does quite a lot of very nifty things in one tool.

    As for pricing – ChemDraw can be had at steep discounts for previous versions, and academic discounts for current versions. ChemBioOffice Ultra is the flagship and comes with a lot of additoinal very useful software. Molecular modeling, Notebook, Subscription interface to chemical databases, and one of my favorite features a search engine that will search MS Office documents for embeded Chemistry that has been drawn with ChemDraw.

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