Synthematix and Advanced Chemistry Development Announce Their Collaboration to Integrate Selected Products
Research Triangle Park, NC, December 6, 2002 -
Synthematix, Inc. and Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD/Labs) today announced a new partnership to integrate selected market-leading ACD/Labs solutions with Synthematix's Arthur™ Suite, a comprehensive chemistry workflow environment for synthetic chemists.
Using Synthematix's Arthur Suite, synthetic chemists are able to search, model, mine, and save synthetic reactions and their associated experimental procedures. Arthur includes the ability to access analytical data associated with any reaction, procedure, or procedure step. ACD/Labs' award winning ACD/SpecManager™ provides chemists with powerful tools to process, predict, and manage analytical data in a wide variety of formats. Under the collaboration, both companies will develop the capability for their users to access a homogenous interface to both software offerings.
"We are very pleased to have Advanced Chemistry Development as a product development collaborator," said Clay B. Thorp, President and CEO, Synthematix, Inc. "ACD/Labs' expertise in the 'high science' segment of chemical computing is well recognized. They are a market leader in predictive analytical chemical software solutions. Synthematix offers a comprehensive workflow environment for searching and planning chemical reactions. The ability to access actual spectral data through ACD/Labs' software is tremendously important to the synthetic chemist as he or she plans their reactions using our Arthur software. Both companies will gain from this collaboration."
"We are greatly impressed with Synthematix's products," said Antony Williams, V.P. of Scientific Development and Marketing at ACD/Labs. "We've seen how the Arthur Database and Suite offer chemistry organizations a comprehensive planning environment for synthetic chemistry. Using ACD/Labs' predictive tools in the Arthur environment, scientists can predict the physicochemical properties of their molecular structures, predict the multinuclear NMR spectra of their reaction products, and generate chemical names, either IUPAC or CAS Index, to populate their databases with systematic nomenclature. The integration to our analytical data processing and databasing tools provides direct access to 1D and 2D NMR, LC-MS, chromatography, UV-Vis, IR, and many other forms of analytical data. ACD/SpecManager provides a homogenizing environment for heterogeneous data and the integration with Arthur has the potential to greatly enhance the effectiveness of R&D."
The two companies are discussing further opportunities to integrate other products for the benefit of their users.
About Advanced Chemistry Development
Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD/Labs) is a chemistry software company offering solutions that truly integrate chemical structures with analytical chemistry information. ACD/Labs creates innovative software packages that aid chemical research scientists worldwide with spectroscopic validation of structures, elucidation of unknown substances, chromatographic separation, medicinal chemistry, preformulation of novel drug agents, and chemical patenting and publication. Combined, ACD/Labs' solutions create an analytical informatics system that provides dramatic feed-forward effects on the chemical research process. Founded in 1993, and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, ACD/Labs employs a team of over 100 dedicated individuals whose continual efforts carry ACD/Labs' innovative technologies into pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and materials companies throughout the world. Information about Advanced Chemistry Development and its products can be found at www.acdlabs.com. For more information contact Daria Jouravleva at 416-368-3435 or email at daria.jouravleva@acdlabs.com.
About Synthematix
Synthematix, Inc., an early stage company based in Research Triangle Park, NC, provides software for building and mining Organized and Searchable Institutional Memory of synthetic reactions and procedures. The Arthur System provides the first Comprehensive Synthetic Planning Environment for chemists. The system consists of a suite of modules for searching reactions and associated experimentals, visualizing related chemistries and processes, annotating experimental results, modeling new results based upon data collected in prior experiments, linking analytical data in the context of specific reaction steps, integrating with or establishing electronic registry and inventory databases, printing reports for intellectual property and group planning, and establishing immutable file records for archival purposes. Synthematix's other customers include Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Duke University, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inspire Pharmaceuticals and Plexxikon, Inc. For more information, contact Tom Laundon at 919-474-0742, ext. 105 or email at tom.laundon@synthematix.com.
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