Tuesday, May 27, 2014

ThumbFish Neptune.Beta.1 is out

Hi All,

I am excited to roll out the first pre-release version of ThumbFish. ThumbFish is a set of shell extension handlers for Windows (Vista and above) that provides thumbnails, preview, search and other useful features for chemical structure files such as mdl-mol, rxn, sdf, rdf, and smiles. ThumbFish is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. For more information, check out the ThumbFish Project Page.



ThumbFish
Note that Beta.1 is only available for 64-bit version of Windows Vista and 7 operating systems. There were some renderer related issues in 32-bit version but the good news is that the issues have been fixed and Beta.2 will support both 32 and 64-bit platforms. Windows 8 is currently NOT supported because of API compatibility problems which we hope to resolve soon. Beta.2 will be out in the next few days.

ThumbFish is open source and available on GitHub here. It uses the 'C' API of open source Indigo Organic Chemistry Toolkit for all its chemical functionality. 

I am sure people will find ThumbFish useful in their day-to-day working with chemical structures. I will be actively working on it and adding more useful features in coming days.