NAME

       bkchem - a free chemical drawing program

SYNOPSIS

       bkchem [options] [file]

DESCRIPTION

       bkchem  is  a free chemical drawing program, which was written in Python. The editor gives
       you the possibility to draw, scale, rotate, align and validate molecules and/or  molecular
       fragments.  You  can import CML1/CML2, MDL MOL files, SMILES and INChI. Export is possible
       into SVG, OpenOffice Draw format, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), CML1/CML2, MDL MOL  files
       and SMILES.

OPTIONS

       The following options can be used:

       -H home-directory
              Set the new home directory to be home-directory.

       -b script
              Run in batch mode and execute script.

       -h, --help
              Show usage information.

       -v, --version
              Show version information.

FILES

       ${HOME}/.bkchem/prefs.xml
              File to store user preferences.

AUTHORS

       bkchem is written by Beda Kosata <beda@zirael.org>.

       This  manual  page  was  written by Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> for the Debian
       GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms   of
       the  GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published
       by the Free Software Foundation.

                                            05/18/2008                                  BKCHEM(1)