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Signals ChemDraw takes the familiar ChemDraw experience and connects it to the cloud, your colleagues and the wider research workflow. You keep the desktop application and gain a browser-based companion, collaboration tools, scientific resources, security controls and simpler administration.
Here is what you gain when you move beyond desktop-only ChemDraw.
Six reasons for upgrading
01 Work your way
Use ChemDraw Desktop when you want it and ChemDraw+ in a browser when you need cloud access.
02 Cover more science
Work across small molecules, synthetic biologics, polymers and nanomaterials, with capabilities that keep expanding.
03 Collaborate with control
Share drawings and chemical notebooks while controlling exactly who can read, write or manage access.
04 Bring resources into the canvas
Reach scientific search, sourcing and safety information without leaving ChemDraw.
05 Protect research data
Use a platform built around enterprise security standards and cloud security services.
06 Reduce IT friction
Centralise access with SSO and keep ChemDraw+ current through automatic cloud updates.
01 UNMATCHED FLEXIBILITY
Keep the desktop. Add the cloud.
ChemDraw Prime and Professional are desktop-only in the source material. Signals ChemDraw gives users a choice: continue working in ChemDraw Desktop, or open ChemDraw+ from a browser when cloud access fits the task better.
ChemDraw Desktop
- The application users already know
- Enhanced with new capabilities
- Seamless round-trip editing with ChemDraw+
ChemDraw+
- Cloud-native editor accessed from a browser
- No installation required
- Drawings stored securely in the cloud environment
ChemDraw Desktop and ChemDraw+ provide two ways to work with the same chemistry workflow.
The practical benefit: the ChemDraw desktop you know, now with a cloud companion.
02 SCIENCE COVERAGE
Use one drawing environment as chemistry evolves
Signals ChemDraw extends the drawing environment beyond traditional small-molecule work. The source material highlights capabilities for drug discovery, synthetic biologics and materials science, alongside a faster release cadence for ChemDraw+.
For drug discovery
- Enhanced stereochemistry
- Advanced analytics
- A fully integrated HELM editor for synthetic drug modalities
- Centralized monomer libraries
- Multi-stranded oligonucleotides with base pairing and hairpin loops
For materials science
- Comprehensive polymer tools
- Templates for nanomaterials
- 3D display
A faster path for new capabilities
The source material states that ChemDraw+ can receive up to 10 releases a year, compared with two releases for desktop applications. Cloud delivery makes it possible for new capabilities to reach users more frequently.
Copper dihistidinate Hairpin loop Navepegritide Difamilast
Green OLED Fullerenes Armchair (5,5) nanotube Self-organizing assemblies
Whatever you draw today, Signals ChemDraw is positioned to support a broader range of chemistry as research needs change.
03 COLLABORATION
Share science without losing control
Emailing chemistry files back and forth creates version confusion and makes access difficult to manage. Signals ChemDraw lets users share a drawing or chemical notebook with a colleague or a project team and set access rights for each person.
- Open shared drawings from an email link, including on a smartphone
- Reduce file emailing and version mismatches
- Lower the risk of sharing intellectual property with the wrong people
- Change or revoke access rights at any time
Per-person access controls in the sharing workflow.
ChemDraw+ turns chemical drawing into a collaborative workflow while keeping permissions visible and manageable.
04 SCIENTIFIC INTEGRATION
Bring research context into ChemDraw
Signals ChemDraw connects the drawing canvas to scientific resources used in day-to-day research. In addition to Elsevier Reaxys and CAS SciFinder, the source material highlights three built-in resource areas that reduce tool switching.
Google Scholar / Patents
Find structures described in publications and patents.
ChemACX Explorer
Check commercial availability and support reagent sourcing.
PubChem GHS LCSS
Identify and mitigate risks associated with reagents.
Examples of scientific resources accessed from the ChemDraw environment.
The drawing canvas becomes a research hub: chemistry and context can sit side by side instead of living in separate tools.
05 HIGH-GRADE SECURITY
Protect valuable research data
Research data can be some of an organization’s most valuable intellectual property. The source material describes a multi-layer security model managed by Revvity Signals and highlights the following standards and platform services.
SOC 2 Type 2
Compliance standard
ISO 27001
International security standard
CIS
Hardening standards
AWS platform services
Advanced encryption standard
The goal is simple: let scientists focus on chemistry while the platform handles the security layer behind the workflow.
06 SEAMLESS IT AND ADMIN
Reduce maintenance with SSO and cloud updates
Signals ChemDraw moves the workflow toward a cloud-powered SaaS model while retaining the desktop application. The result is a combination of familiar desktop access and centralised cloud administration.
Single sign-on and central control
Users can sign in with company credentials through SSO. Administrators manage the organisation from a central dashboard, without activation keys and with less risk of wasted licenses.
Always on the current version
ChemDraw+ updates are deployed automatically in the cloud, reducing downloads, support tickets and update-related downtime.
WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP?
The same ChemDraw. Connected to the cloud, your colleagues and your workflow.
If your organisation already uses ChemDraw Prime or Professional, Signals ChemDraw adds cloud access and collaboration without asking researchers to abandon the desktop tool they know.