FAIRsharing record for: ChemDraw Native File Format

This FAIRsharing record describes: CDX is the native file format of ChemDraw, and is guaranteed to save anything drawn in ChemDraw without loss of data. At the same time, however, its architecture was carefully designed to make it a flexible and general-purpose chemical format. It is intended to be a practical choice for use by non-graphical programs, i.e. ones dealing in connection tables rather than desktop publishing. Because of its ability to incorporate custom information, and because it is in the public domain, CDX has been adopted by the U.S. Patent Office as its standard chemical format. Originally developed by the CambridgeSoft Corporation, and later a subsidiary of PerkinElmer, it is now part of Revvity Signals (https://revvitysignals.com/products/research/chemdraw). Currently, the CDX specification is unavailable on the Revvity Signals website, and so the best solution is to point to the wikipedia page for now. Please get in touch with us if you have an authoritative URL for the specification, or this record's status may need to be revised.