

cdxml files but I’m not sure if it can handle the older file formats (e.g. AlternativesĪpparently ChemDoodle can open ChemDraw. I don’t have access to what our split of the cost was in 2021, but this gives all students and staff access to their software on their work machines, not take-home copies as we have for some things (e.g. We share this cost between the Chemistry and Pharmacy departments and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, where I’m based. Like many other we moved to an annual site license rather than buying each researcher a perpetual single seat. Forget that, this is now about our ability to use documents we deliberately saved as. Remember for a moment the historical problems of retrieving ChemDraw figures out of Word documents (“ Round-trip editing“). We have students with hundreds of thesis figures etc halfway through writing theses. Again, I’m assuming $USD and the following are for single users: Current ChemDraw product pricing (as at 1/10/22) Now currently the Perkin Elmer Informatics web page lists prices for both subscription and perpetual licenses for the 2021 version. Not just going forward looking for a replacement product (hello Chemdoodle), but the inability to open ~30 years of documents, edit old schemes and thesis figures etc would be incalculable. This would be catastrophic for our chemistry researchers. Unaffordable.- Ken Knott September 29, 2022 We have gone from a $6K license to a $30K license. Has anyone else run into this and how are you dealing with it. #NMR Apparently Perkin Elmer has increased the price of an academic license for ChemOffice by 500%.
