ChemDraw

ChemDraw, developed by Revvity Signals Software, is the world's number one trusted chemical drawing solution, with a heritage dating back to 1985. It is a complete suite for creating, managing, sharing, and presenting chemistry research and discoveries, serving a broad audience that includes students, professional chemists, pharmaceutical and biotech researchers, and materials scientists. ChemDraw is available in three distinct offerings — ChemDraw Prime, ChemDraw Professional, and Signals ChemDraw — each tailored to different levels of need, from entry-level drawing to enterprise-grade cloud collaboration.

At its core, ChemDraw enables researchers to produce chemically accurate, publication-ready drawings faster than ever before, communicate complex chemistry clearly through striking visual depictions, and share chemical and biological intelligence instantly. It supports both desktop and cloud workflows, integrates with key research applications, and simplifies reporting across the entire research lifecycle.

ChemDraw Prime — Ideal for Students and Entry-Level Usage

• Comprehensive chemical drawing tools with hotkeys and shortcuts for efficient structure creation.
• Generic structure representation for flexible chemical communication.
• Supports numerous chemical formats including SMILES, MOL, SDF, and more.
• Chemical intelligence tools including enhanced stereochemistry perception.
• Structure and reaction clean-up functions for polished, accurate drawings.
• Smart copy/paste functionality, including SMILES-to-structure conversion and auto-positioning.

ChemDraw Professional — Designed for the Power User

• Includes all ChemDraw Prime features, plus advanced capabilities.
• Name-to-structure and structure-to-name conversion for rapid identification.
• Physico-chemical property predictions including pKa, aqueous solubility, lipophilicity, melting point, and more.
• ¹H and ¹³C NMR prediction as well as mass fragmentation tools.
• Reaction stoichiometry grid for analytical chemistry workflows.
• Eye-catching visual display for chemistry and biopolymers, including ring-fill coloring, atom/bond color highlighting, and 3D clean-up and perspective tools.
• Advanced HELM (Hierarchical Editing Language for Macromolecules) biopolymer representation supporting natural and artificial biopolymers, peptide drawing from FASTA sequences, atom-mapped SMILES in HELM, complementarity strand insertion, and biopolymer clean-up.
• Scientific database integrations including CAS SciFinder-n® and Elsevier Reaxys® to boost productivity.
• Biopolymer graphic representation and the ability to save and copy structures as 3D printable formats (.3MF).

Signals ChemDraw — Tailored for Enterprise-Level Users

• Includes all ChemDraw Professional features, plus cloud-powered capabilities.
• Provides both desktop and cloud applications for maximum flexibility.
• Secure, instant cloud access to chemistry from anywhere, at any time.
• Facilitates collaboration through a shared HELM monomer library and centralized custom monomer libraries.
• Easy sharing of drawing collections to foster co-creation across teams.
• Centralized user management and automatic updates via SaaS administration.
• ChemDraw Collections for creating and managing molecules and reactions in the cloud.
• Ability to add and edit properties in collections and export them to .sdf or .pptx files.
• Create reports of Signals Notebook experiments directly from ChemDraw.
• Extract ChemDraw and ISIS Draw drawings from existing documents.
• Perform structure searches within cloud-stored documents.
• Google Scholar/Patents Add-in, PubChem Safety Add-in, ChemACX Explorer Add-in, and a custom dynamic Add-in SDK for extensibility.
• HELM in-line annotation support, hydrogen bonding for nucleotide base pairing, DNA/RNA auto-pair tool, and hairpin loop representation.
• Transfer color highlights to 3D printable formats (.3MF).
• Natively integrated with advanced structure-activity relationship (SAR) capabilities within Signals One™.

Key Use Cases and User Groups

• Students: Create high-quality, publication-ready drawings using an intuitive and comprehensive toolset without compromising on scientific accuracy.
• Pharma and Biotech: Draw small molecules through to biologics, and empower research teams with integrated tools and databases to support drug discovery of novel modalities.
• Materials Science: Use ChemDraw templates to support drawing of complex structures, including advanced polymer representations not found in other chemical drawing solutions.
• Enterprise Research Teams: Leverage the design-make-test-decide cycle with cloud-based collaboration, making chemistry work truly actionable across the organization.

Security and Compliance

• Independently verified best practices for storing and securing data.
• Built on secure cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS.
• Permissions-based access configuration ensures team members only see what they need.
• SOC 2 certified, verifying compliance with industry-leading security and privacy standards.

Signals ChemDraw is available as a SaaS offering with scalable licensing, centralized administrator controls, and automatic updates, making it well suited for enterprise deployment. ChemDraw integrates seamlessly with Signals Notebook and the broader Revvity Signals ecosystem, supporting end-to-end chemistry research workflows from initial drawing through to data management, reporting, and collaboration. A 15-day free trial is available, along with interactive demos that require no installation.