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ChemCurator History of Changes

Only major changes listed here, minor bugfixes, dependency updates, and smaller improvements are not included in the changelog.

You might want to also see the changes in Document to Structure and Name to Structure, since they also affect ChemCurator.

March 4th, 2025: ChemCurator 25.1.0

Improvements

  • Document processing could fail for patent XML files if erroneous CDX files were attached to them..
  • Revised enumeration of homology groups. The examples used for each homology group are more consistent.
  • Improved additional property handling for homology groups. Only permitted restrictors are allowed in the Additional Text Notes field for homology groups (e.g. Number of Rings is valid only for ring type homology groups)


ChemCurator 23.16

New Features and Improvements

  • Improved homology handling
  • AnyGroup (XX) homology group definition updated: It covers any structure (excluding a single hydrogen atom)


ChemCurator 23.12

Bugfixes

  • Fixed proxy handling when documents are loaded from Google Patents.

ChemCurator 23.8

New Features and Improvements

  • Migrated ChemCurator to Java 17 from Java 11
  • The ChemCurator installer bundles Bellsoft Liberica OpenJDK 17
  • Auto Update doesn't work for this version !
    A clean manual installation is required for 23.8. For the following updates Auto Update in ChemCurator will be available again.

ChemCurator 23.4

New Features and Improvements

  • Several UI related minor improvements are added - like menu button locations or icon appearance changes

ChemCurator 22.1

New Features and Improvements

  • ChemCurator now supports quick input of homology groups for entering fragment definitions when editing R-groups (by typing the abrreviation for the group in the opened editor window)
  • Both Chemaxon names and shortcuts defined in the Derwent Markush Reference Manual are recognized for these homology groups

ChemCurator 21.20

New Features and Improvements

  • New updated look and feel of ChemCurator

ChemCurator 21.19

New Features and Improvements

  • Migrated ChemCurator to Java 11
  • Auto Update doesn't work for this version !
    A clean manual installation is required for 21.19. For the following updates Auto Update in ChemCurator will be available again.

ChemCurator 21.14

New Features and Improvements

  • ChemCurator now supports the latest version of pdf2htmlEX

ChemCurator 21.4

New Features and Improvements

  • Installer now works on MacOS Catalina

ChemCurator 21.2

New Features and Improvements

  • Save input PDF to the project folder

ChemCurator 20.5

New Features and Improvements

  • Major platform update (NetBeans platform version 9.0)

ChemCurator 17.5

New Features and Improvements

  • Version number system change

ChemCurator 17.1.9

New Features and Improvements

  • Configurable Markush validation options.
  • Bond length checker removed from default checker configuration.
  • Structure checker in compounds view.
  • Major platform update.
  • Bundled CLiDE update.

ChemCurator 17.1.2

New Features and Improvements

  • Original name field in compounds view.
  • Structure type field in compounds view.
  • Create documents from online content.

ChemCurator 15.12.14

New Features and Improvements

  • Project upload/download in context menu & toolbar.

ChemCurator 15.12.7

New Features and Improvements

  • Easy manual annotation by fixing the text.

ChemCurator 15.11.23

New Features and Improvements

  • New options panel for view settings and reorganize panels.

ChemCurator 15.11.16

New Features and Improvements

  • Windows version of CLiDE bundled together with ChemCurator installer.

Bugfixes

  • Sorting compounds table breaks hit coloring, reference linking, and selection consistency.

ChemCurator 15.10.26

New Features and Improvements

  • Show missing doc reference for Markush fragments.

ChemCurator 15.10.19

Bugfixes

  • Stereo is ignored during duplicate checking..

ChemCurator 15.10.12

New Features and Improvements

  • Indicate for compounds (and fragments) whether they are linked to the document
  • Add items to custom dictionary based on manual linking.

ChemCurator 15.9.28

New Features and Improvements

  • "Open folder" in project context menu.
  • Save validation result during structure list export.
  • Persist zoom settings for project notes component

ChemCurator 15.9.21

New Features and Improvements

  • Number of matching structures in validation view.
  • Display indexes of exemplified structures in the list view
  • Project notes.
  • Don't allow duplicates in structure lists.
  • Markush Composer wizard

Bugfixes

  • Additional fields not created after compound list "make copy"

ChemCurator 15.8.31

New Features and Improvements

  • Similarity filter in structure extraction wizard.

ChemCurator 15.8.24

Bugfixes

  • PDF2Html installation bug solved.

ChemCurator 15.7.13

New Features and Improvements

  • Improved text and image quality in PDF based projects.

ChemCurator 15.6.22

New Features and Improvements

  • Improved text and image quality in PDF based projects.

ChemCurator 15.6.15

New Features and Improvements

  • Pdf2htmlEX 0.12 bundled to Windows installer.

Bugfixes

  • PDF based project creation failure in some cases.

ChemCurator 15.6.1

New Features and Improvements

  • "Create Demo Project" in new project wizard.
  • Improved more simpler project export dialog.
  • Unified Mac and Linux installer.

ChemCurator 15.5.18

Bugfixes

  • Apple retina display related document view bug

ChemCurator 15.4.27

Bugfixes

  • IFI claims scrolling issue.

ChemCurator 15.4.6

New Features and Improvements

  • IFI Claims Direct service 2.0 support.

ChemCurator 15.3.30

New Features and Improvements

  • Copy/Paste of molecules between two sets of molecules.

ChemCurator 15.3.16

New Features and Improvements

  • Display R-group alias instead of R-group number if it's exist.

ChemCurator 15.3.9

New Features and Improvements

  • Non-hit visualization performance and correctness improvements.

ChemCurator 15.3.2

New Features and Improvements

  • Non-hit visualization performance and connectivity improvements.

ChemCurator 15.2.23

New Features and Improvements

  • NonHit visualization in Markush validation, highlights the non matching parts of the exemplified structure and the Markush structure.
  • Exemplified structures validation coloring in Compounds view containing Markush exemplified structures.
  • Synchronize selection in Markush view exemplified structures list and the corresponding Compounds view.

Bugfixes

  • Hit coloring problem related H-fragments matching.
  • Minor bugfixes.

ChemCurator 15.2.9

New Features and Improvements

  • New selection, hit, error and warning visualization in Markush Extraction view.
  • Improved IFI and Google Patents search field.
  • Mac and Linux installer.

Bugfixes

  • Minor bugfixes.

ChemCurator 15.1.26

New Features and Improvements

  • Automatic version update.

ChemCurator 15.1.12

New Features and Improvements

  • Compounds file import option in project context menu.
  • Faster compounds extraction and deletion of multiple compound records.
  • Enable beta functions command-line option.

ChemCurator 15.1.5

New Features and Improvements

  • New interactive Markush enumeration view.
  • New more flexible compounds view with, calculated formula, molar mass, IUPAC name, moveable and sortable columns.
  • Automatic scrolling to the added new row in compounds view.
  • New compounds file import to project command-line function.
  • Improved fragment recognition.

ChemCurator 14.12.8

New Features and Improvements

  • Tab coloring, tabs associated to same project get the same color.
  • Project explorer selection following the selection of the editor and viewer components.

ChemCurator 14.12.1

New Features and Improvements

  • Automatic R-group conversion of labeled atoms recognized by OSR.
  • Automatic download and insertion of images associated to the imported document from IFI CLAIMS.

ChemCurator 14.11.24

New Features and Improvements

  • Command-line mode.
  • Resizable Selection and Examples views.
  • Automatic preview popup.

Bugfixes

  • Unimportant warnings during annotation in some cases.

ChemCurator 14.11.17

New Features and Improvements

  • Some icon replacements.

Bugfixes

  • Editor components opened in wrong position in some cases.

ChemCurator 2014.11.10

New Features and Improvements

  • ChemCurator Integration Server released.
  • EditorFrame canvas get focus automatically.

Bugfixes

  • Reset windows related bug fixed.
  • Markush validation homology match highlighting fixed.

ChemCurator 2014.11.3

New Features and Improvements

  • Configurable document annotation options.

ChemCurator 2014.10.27

New Features and Improvements

  • Markush validation support homology groups.

ChemCurator 2014.10.20

New Features and Improvements

  • Drag&drop allowed only from the corresponding document.
  • Compound lists not allow query or Markush features.

ChemCurator 2014.10.13

New Features and Improvements

  • "Help" feature added.

ChemCurator 2014.10.6

New Features and Improvements

  • Dynamic enumeration count calculation in Markush view.
  • Improved progress display.
  • Validate Markush structure without edit it.
  • Automatic scrolling when scaffold selected.

Bugfixes

  • Manual linking error with Markush fragments.
  • Generated sidebar in some cases is not hidden correctly.
  • Project delete, rename throw various exceptions.

ChemCurator 2014.9.22

New Features and Improvements

  • First public release.