The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) is a chemistry library written in Java. It serves as a base for many other applications, including the chemical parts of Bioclipse. Note that the things described here are only the bits of CDK visible in Bioclipse. Most functions of the CDK are not directly visible to the user, although heavily used throughout Bioclipse.
If you want more informations about CDK or want to get involved in it, please see the CDK home page.
C. Steinbeck, Y. Han, S. Kuhn, O. Horlacher, E. Luttmann, and E.L. Willighagen, The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK): An Open-Source Java Library for Chemo- and Bioinformatics 2003, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 43:493-500.
C. Steinbeck, C. Hoppe, S. Kuhn, M. Floris, R. Guha and E.L. Willighagen, Recent Developments of the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) -An Open-Source Java Library for Chemo- and Bioinformatics 2006, Current Pharmaceutical Design, 12(17):2111-2120
The CDK is licensed with the LGPL.
The CDK is copyrighted by the CDK project, and has been written by Rich Apodaca, Ulrich Bauer, Miguel Rojas Cherto, Fabian Dortu, Martin Eklund, Matteo Floris, Dan Gezelter, Uli Fechner, Rajarshi Guha, Yonquan Han, Thierry Hanser, Tobias Helmus, Kai Hartmann, Christian Hoppe, Oliver Horlacher, Miguel Howard, Violeta Labarta, Nina Jeliazkova, Geert Josten, Anatoli Krassavine, Stefan Kuhn, Daniel Leidert, Edgar Luttmann, Nathanaƫl Mazuir, Stephan Michels, Peter Murray-Rust, Irilenia Nobeli, Chris Pudney, Jonathan Rienstra-Kiracofe, David Robinson, Bhupinder Sandhu, Jean-Sebastien Senecal, Sulev Sild, Bradley Smith, Christoph Steinbeck, Stephan Tomkinson, Joerg Wegner, Stephane Werner, Egon Willighagen, and Yong Zhang.