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27 September 2000, Research Triangle Park, NC. ACD Announces Collaboration with US EPA

Advanced Chemistry Development has collaborated with the US Environmental Protection Agency (Research Triangle Park, NC) to provide access to the EPA/IARC database in ACD/ChemFolder format. This database will be provided free of charge to all ChemFolder users.

The EPA/IARC Genetic Activity Profiles (GAP) database is a joint collaboration between the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs. Mike Waters, project head for the GAP DB project, comments "This is the first time that the GAP database has been available with structure and substructure search capabilities as well as all of the power that comes with structure display visualization tools."

There are approximately 500 chemical agents in the GAP database that were evaluated by IARC peer review for human carcinogenicity and subsequently were included in the IARC Monographs [Vol. 44-73 and Suppl. 6, 1987-1999]. The database also includes over 250 EPA priority chemicals, e.g., pesticides, agents found in the toxic residue at Superfund waste-sites, or hazardous air pollutants. The EPA/IARC GAP database, including the ChemFolder database, is updated annually.

Antony Williams of ACD comments "Structures are extremely important to properties including uptake and toxicity, something that ACD has recognized all along. This is hopefully the first step in the unification of structure database exchange formats for chemists at the US EPA. We look forward to assisting in the migration of structural databases for many projects underway at the EPA."

More information on ACD/ChemFolder is available at: http://www.acdlabs.com/products/chem_dsn_lab/chemfolder/
To purchase a registered copy, contact us or a distributor in your area.

Note: The US EPA does not officially endorse ACD products. This collaboration is intended to broaden the range of supported formats for viewing the chemicals in the GAP database.