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Description: ChemSpotlight is a Spotlight metadata importer plugin for Mac OS X which reads common chemical file formats
Homepage: http://geoffhutchison.net/projects/chem/
Clone URL: git://github.com/ghutchis/chemspotlight.git
README
ChemSpotlight 1.1   README
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ChemSpotlight is a Spotlight metadata importer plugin for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which reads common chemical file formats 
(MDL .mol, .mdl, .sd, .sdf, Tripos .mol2, PDB, Chemical Markup Language, XYZ) using the Open Babel chemistry library. It 
is provided as a Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel, for optimized performance on both.

This XCode project was created using XCode 2.4 -- I don't know if it works with older versions.

It expects the Open Babel 2.0 chemistry library (including headers) to be installed into
 /usr/local/lib which should be the default when you compile from source yourself or install from the ChemSpotlight 
 package.

The main metadata importer code is in GetMetadataForFile.mm -- an Objective-C++ file. (It resembles fairly standard C++ 
code with the exception of some Apple CoreFoundation code to interface with Spotlight.)

Copyright (C) 2005-2006 by Geoffrey R. Hutchison

More questions, comments, complaints? Please e-mail me at <geoff.hutchison@gmail.com> or visit the ChemSpotlight 
website:
http://geoffhutchison.net/projects/chem/

This project is part of the Open Babel project.
For more information, see <http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.