title: MyMolDB: a micromolecular database solution with open source and free components.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To manage chemical structures in small laboratories is one of the important daily tasks. Few solutions are available on the internet, and most of them are closed source applications. The open-source applications typically have limited capability and basic cheminformatics functionalities. In this article, we describe an open-source solution to manage chemicals in research groups based on open source and free components. It has a user-friendly interface with the functions of chemical handling and intensive searching.
  
  
  RESULTS
  MyMolDB is a micromolecular database solution that supports exact, substructure, similarity, and combined searching. This solution is mainly implemented using scripting language Python with a web-based interface for compound management and searching. Almost all the searches are in essence done with pure SQL on the database by using the high performance of the database engine. Thus, impressive searching speed has been archived in large data sets for no external Central Processing Unit (CPU) consuming languages were involved in the key procedure of the searching.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  MyMolDB is an open-source software and can be modified and/or redistributed under GNU General Public License version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation (Free Software Foundation Inc. The GNU General Public License, Version 3, 2007. Available at: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). The software itself can be found at http://code.google.com/p/mymoldb/.
authors: Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China.
authors: Bing
authors: B
authors: Xia
authors: Zheng-Fu
authors: ZF
authors: Tai
authors: Yu-Cheng
authors: YC
authors: Gu
authors: Bang-Jing
authors: BJ
authors: Li
authors: Li-Sheng
authors: LS
authors: Ding
authors: Yan
authors: Y
authors: Zhou
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D015394:Molecular Structure; D057386:Search Engine / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D013997:Time Factors; D014584:User-Computer Interface