Instant JChem 2.0 released: Instant JChem Personal free for all users

ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for cheminformatics, has announced the version 2 release of Instant JChem, its desktop application for working with chemical and other data on local and remote databases. The version 2 release brings forms and form building, relational data support, advanced query building and multi-user access. Instant JChem Personal edition features the vast majority of functionality and is free for all users.

Instant JChem is a software application for all major operating systems which bundles ChemAxon's Marvin and JChem enterprise cheminformatics toolkits with a local database engine to give an 'out of the box' solution for research informatics. Users can easily create databases; import, merge and export a wide range of structure file types; create powerful chemical and non-chemical queries; populate database columns with dynamically generated structure based properties; apply custom chemical business rules to canonicalize their structure data; and build custom views and forms to help analyze and report their findings. For software developers and IT architects Instant JChem includes its own application programming interface (API) for extensibility and customization and with the underlying JChem toolkits, offers a very rich choice and flexibility in deploying and building centralized, consistent and highly scalable research informatics platforms.

"The version 2 is looking good and we have a strong development pipeline which will bring more of our existing toolkits, like library enumeration and maximum common substructure clustering, into Instant JChem" says Ferenc Csizmadia, CEO of ChemAxon.

"The feedback is excellent, we are seeing active interest with academic and industrial deployments" said Tim Dudgeon, Instant JChem lead developer, who added "I think the keys are the enterprise performance we inherit from using the JChem toolkits and the extensibility and consistency of operation that is available to research informaticians who think of Instant JChem and the JChem toolkits within a strategic global solution".

"By including most of the Instant JChem features in Instant JChem Personal and making this free I hope we are able to turn on many new users and move the field forward" commented Alex Allardyce, Marketing Director at ChemAxon.

Instant JChem Personal is free for all users. The Personal edition contains full power data management, search and reporting as well as default chemical business rules. To access more advanced functionality such as property prediction and sharing remote databases requires license keys. Recipients of ChemAxon's free Academic and FreeWeb Packages can receive keys to fully enable Instant JChem at no charge.