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Chemcaster offers both a browser-based administrative interface and a RESTful API. The API uses JSON as the base data format. How can you easily view this output from a browser during development and debugging?

For any Chemcaster admin URI, you can tack on a ".json" extension and get a full JSON representation of the resource. For example, here's the JSON for one of my Registries:

Here, I've used the JSONView Firefox plugin, which is extremely useful for working with JSON in browsers.

About Chemcaster

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.