Advanced Chemistry Development Donates Campus-Wide License of ACD/ChemSketch to SUNY Cobleskill

Toronto, ON, and Cobleskill, NY, November 15, 2002 -

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) has provided a campus-wide installation of the latest version of ACD/ChemSketch to the State University of New York, College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill. ACD/Labs' donation was initiated by Josephine Bissember of the college's Information Technology Services Department, who wanted to introduce ACD/ChemSketch's functionality and capabilities to her fellow staff, faculty members, and students.

ACD/ChemSketch is ACD/Labs' chemical structure drawing and visualization application for the Microsoft Windows (98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP) operating system. The software enables you to draw virtually any chemical structure within the scope of your imagination, and provides the ability to add chemical structures and drawn pictures, including lab equipment, Lewis structures, bond orbitals, and graphs, to reports and presentations. Other ACD/ChemSketch features include 2D and 3D optimization, the importing of various structure formats, and OLE linking, which enables you to paste chemical structures into other Microsoft applications.

For more information about ACD/ChemSketch, please visit our web site at: http://www.acdlabs.com/products/chem_dsn_lab/chemsketch/

About Advanced Chemistry Development

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is a chemistry software company offering solutions that truly integrate chemical structures with analytical chemistry information to produce ChemAnalytics™. 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, systematic nomenclature generation, and chemical patenting and publication. Combined, ACD/Labs' solutions create an analytical informatics system that provides dramatic feed-forward effects on the chemical and pharmaceutical 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.

About SUNY Cobleskill

The State University of New York at Cobleskill, SUNY Cobleskill's, College of Agriculture and Technology is a residential college enrolling approximately 2,400 students in four- and two-year degree programs. The college offers degree programs in Agriculture and Natural Resources; Business and Computer Technologies; Culinary, Hospitality and Tourism; Early Childhood; and Liberal Arts and Sciences. More information about SUNY Cobleskill and its degree programs can be found at http://www.cobleskill.edu/Academic/.