Metamolecular Products Blog

There's more scheduled maintenance on the way for Chemcaster on Friday September 18, 2009 at 5:00pm PDT. The biggest part of the upgrade will consist of adding a new resource: Registration, which will enable registration of multi-Component Substances, such as salts, fractional hydrates, complexes, and stereoisomer mixtures. Initially, only single-Component Substances will be accepted, but this restriction will be lifted in future upgrades. Substances will no longer be directly created, edited, or destroyed - that will happen by manipulating the corresponding Registration.

In addition to these model-level changes, the new API will feature improved documentation and will fix inconsistencies in some JSON representations.

A new Ruby client version capable of fully using the new API should be available at the time of the upgrades. A revised PHP client should follow shortly.

Chemcaster is the cheminformatics Web services platform optimized for rapid creation of chemistry-focussed websites. It supports compound registration, exact- and substructure search, and dynamic 2D structure image creation, both through a browser-based administrative interface and a RESTful Web API.

We're looking for developers interested in testing Chemcaster with their next project. If the idea of streamlining the creation of rich chemistry websites sounds interesting, please consider requesting an invitation to create an account.