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I really like the idea of being able to search for a molecule just by drawing it! It's a fantastic and intuitive idea, if it works...

Which it doesn't, at least for me. When I click the draw link, all I see is an empty white popup box with Preview and Submit buttons that I can't interact with.

Here's my setup, for debug purposes:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1



I'm also on 64 bit linux & it works. Wish he had made a huge draw button. I read about that feature here before I saw it on the page.

PS 2.5 million reactions really? Why aren't they all listed in /reactions/ hmm? :)


The reactions listed in /reactions/ are general types of reaction. There may be 100,000s of individual reaction between each type.

I will definitely be making it more clear that you can draw the compound.


So maybe call them reaction classes/types? For what it's worth, the applet didn't quite do it for me. But I'm not a chem guy so I don't know about your target audience. Check with them about usability.


Do you have java? It looks like it's an applet.




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