According to Wade, Microsoft plans to make the add-in available as an open-source project via CodePlex.
MICROSOFT OFFICE CHEMISTRY ADD IN SOFTWARE
Chem4Word and Chemical Markup Language make chemistry documents open, readable and easily accessible, not just to other humans, but also to other technologies,” Wade explained.Īlthough the Chemistry Add-in for Word is essentially designed to integrate seamlessly with both 20 flavors of Office Word, the software giant noted that early adopters running the Beta development milestone of Word 2010 wouldn’t be able to leverage it. Designed for and tested on both Word 2007 and Word 2010, it harnesses the power of Chemical Markup Language (XML for chemistry), making it possible not only to author chemical content in Word, but also to include the data behind those structures. “Chem4Word makes it easier for students, chemists and researchers to insert and modify chemical information, such as labels, formulas and 2-D depictions, from within Microsoft Office Word. Alex Wade, director for Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research, explained that the Word extension was capable of supporting specific symbols across technologies and file formats, and streamlining authoring and semantic annotation. Dubbed informally Chem4Word, the add-in was developed by Microsoft Research and the Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics at the University of Cambridge, and was released at the American Chemical Society’s Spring 2010 National Meeting & Exposition. Citing the need to support the ability of chemists to communicate in their discipline-specific language as essential to scientific research, Microsoft has made available for download a free add-in for the 20 flavors of Office Word.
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