Molecular Editor

A molecule editor is a computer program for creating and modifying representations of chemical structures. Two dimensional molecular editors are used to  to generate two-dimensional (flat) representations of molecules and chemical reactions that can be used as illustrations or for querying chemical databases. While three dimensional molecular editors are used to build molecular models. Most molecule editors use proprietary file formats, but most can read and write several file formats, including SMILES. The file created by molecular editor can be displayed in a molecular graphics tools.

Some commonly used molecular editor programs are

  

     ACD/Chemsketch

       Ascalaph  

       ISIS/Draw

       MarvinSketch