JChemPaint is computer

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, a molecule editor and

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for chemical structures using 2D computer graphics.''JChemPaint - Using the Collaborative Forces of the Internet to Develop a Free Editor for 2D Chemical Structures'', Stefan Krause, Egon Willighagen and Christoph Steinbeck, ''Molecules'' 2000, 5, 93-98
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, released under a GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). It is written in

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and so can run on the operating systems

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, and

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. There is a ''standalone application'' (editor), and two varieties of ''applet'' (editor and viewer) that can be integrated into

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s. JChemPaint was initiated by

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and is currently being developed as part of The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK), and a Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) based JChemPaint application is being developed, as part of Bioclipse.

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