ChemAxon, Hungarian company that provides software solutions for biotechnology, has released its latest version of the Java database engine enabling chemical communication across networks.
JChem 2.0 sees the addition of five tool sets for pharmacophore screening, structure standardisation, RECAP fragmentation, reaction modeling and metabolite prediction.
According to the Budapest-based company, the 2.0 release improves JChemBase performance and introduces support of reaction databases, at the same time expanding the JChem family application areas with new tool classes. These include screen, a comprehensive HTS suite that works with files and structure databases and features various models for the similarity analysis of molecules and pharmacophore hypotheses and reactor, a platform for performing combinatorial chemical reactions by processing reactants to products according to generic reaction equations.