Chemical operations are carried out by calling Java code modules which use the CDK, JChemPaint and OPSIN libraries to provide cheminformatics functionality.
LICSS stores structures solely as Smiles strings. LICSS is a lightweight chemical spreadsheet within Microsoft Excel for Windows. However, within this group, the performance of Excel is often compromised, particularly in terms of the number of compounds which can usefully be stored on a sheet. Many such chemical spreadsheet tools are available, some operating in the familiar Microsoft Excel environment. In addition to the normal spreadsheet facilities, chemical spreadsheets need to have visualisable chemical structures and data searchable by chemical as well as textual queries. Representations of chemical datasets in spreadsheet format are important for ready data assimilation and manipulation. LICSS - a chemical spreadsheet in microsoft excel.