Chem4Word Project
For those who are familiar with MDL ISIS for Excel this may be interesting to know that Microsoft is developing chemistry authoring extension for Microsoft Office under Chem4Word Project. MDL ISIS for Excel is a spreadsheet-based application that enables scientists to visualize and analyze chemical structures, properties, and associated biological data, search local and remote databases, import data from other applications, and create reports. MDL ISIS for Excel is a tool to visualize, analyze, and create report on experimental data, while Chem4Word appears to be semantically rich authoring tool with high quality visual display, and support for publishing and mining scenarios. Chem4Word will allow users to write reactions very much like we use to do with mathematic equation using Office Math object. Chem4Word will store and expose chemical information in a semantically rich manner using OOXML document standards with structured XML markup for chemical information, very much like CML (Chemical Markup Language). Its matter of time, soon or later similar kind of functionalities will be available with OpenOffice, particularly when OpenOffice along with many of chemoinformatics toolkits is ported in Java.
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Although they are working with Dr. Peter Murray-Rust @ Unilever, I am pretty sure that Microsoft will come something other than CML like they did for Math in Office, OMML and not MathML.