Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., Donates Campus-Wide License of ACD/ChemSketch to Trent University

Toronto, ON, and Peterborough, ON, October 25, 2003 -

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) has provided a campus-site wide installation of the commercial version of ACD/ChemSketch v5.0 to Trent University (http://www.trentu.ca) in scenic Peterborough, Ontario. After seeing ChemSketch in action at the most recent IUPAC and Canadian Society for Chemistry national conference in Ottawa, ON, assistant professor Dr. Andrew Vreugdenhil felt that our software would be the perfect addition to the chemistry department's newly created computational center.

ChemSketch is ACD/Labs' chemical structure drawing and visualization application for the Microsoft Windows (98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP) operating system. ChemSketch enables the user to draw virtually any chemical structure within the scope of their imagination and provides the ability to add chemical structures and drawn images, such as lab equipment, Lewis structures, bond orbitals, and graphs to reports and presentations. Other ChemSketch features include 2D and 3D optimization, importing various structure formats, and OLE linking to enable copying and pasting of 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 Trent University

Trent University (www.trentu.ca) is located in Peterborough, Ontario, 90 minutes north-east of Toronto. The University's Symons Campus sits on a 580-hectare property in an uncommonly beautiful setting along both banks of the Otonabee River at the northern edge of the city.

Trent University stresses the importance and the value of a liberal undergraduate education, and is committed to ensuring, through a general emphasis on interactive learning, that each student has the opportunity to pursue fields of interest intensively and with ample access to the University's teaching resources and facilities. Trent's new Chemical Sciences Building is slated for completion this fall and will house the University's Water Quality Centre, state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories and the offices of the chemistry department.