Metamolecular Products Blog

Previously-announced maintenance for Chemcaster is now complete. The upgrade features support for multiple applications using the same Registry through the Log resource. Also included is documentation for the Ruby and PHP clients.

The administrative interface now shows the last twenty events logged on each Registry home page:

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.

Chemcaster was created with the belief that building chemically-relevant websites is too hard and too expensive. Web services offer unprecedented flexibility and simplifying power for creating Web applications - we wanted to bring that power to chemistry.

But the power Web services offer can only be fully realized with language-specific clients. Up until now, clients for Chemcaster have been largely missing.

We're now happy to announce that two Chemcaster clients are now ready for download: one written in Ruby and the other written in PHP. Both of these clients make use of the new, lightweight, RESTful Chemcaster API based on JSON.

PHP and Ruby represent two of the most widely-used development languages on the Web today. If you're building a site that needs to store, image, or search chemical structures, Chemcaster and its client libraries were designed to make the process faster and cheaper.

Request an invitation today and see for yourself how easy building rich chemistry websites can be with Chemcaster!