Whilst there are many commercial packages for creating structure searchable chemical databases there is little in the way of Open Source packages, in particular a solution that provides a web front end. There is the RDKit PostgreSQL cartridge however installing PostgreSQL and building the database is probably a step to far for those unfamiliar with the use of the command line.

I recently came across ChemRPS whilst this uses the same RDKit PostgreSQL cartridge a search engine (API) and a preconfigured webserver with register/search web pages including structure editor Ketcher from EPAM, the installation comes as a Docker image which should make things much easier.

The system had not been tested on a Mac so I've detailed the instructions in this review…