Symyx Technologies has announced that Symyx Draw 3.1, a chemical drawing application, is now available for download at no charge for academic and home use. The software enables scientists to draw and edit complex chemical structures and reactions with ease, facilitating the collaborative searching, viewing, registering, and archiving of scientific information. To support academic researchers, it also offers very high publication-quality drawing capabilities for presentations, reports and scientific papers, as well as improved integration with the Microsoft Office suite of software applications.