Magnus Manske wrote:
I just found another GPL tool, which can convert
SMILES (among other
things) into other formats:
http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/
Is any of the *output* formats of that software convertable into PNG
through other GPL software?
Magnus
Try this:
http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/
which can read MDL and emit PNGs, is GPL-licenced, and cross-platform.
It also says "Can also read and write any format supported by the
current release of OpenBabel." and since this includes SMILES, this may
mean this is a single -component solution (or just that it calls
OpenBabel externally to do the work).
I've also found this interesting set of lecture notes for background on
chemical informatics:
http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/C371/c371barnard.ppt
(which opens just fine in
OpenOffice.org)
-- Neil