University of Toronto Empowers Three Campuses of Chemistry Students with ACD/Labs' Web-based Prediction and Database Service

Toronto, Canada, February 11, 2005 -

ACD/Labs is proud to announce that the University of Toronto has chosen to enhance its undergraduate chemical education curriculum and graduate research endeavors by purchasing a site license subscription to Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.'s, (ACD/Labs) web-based property prediction and database service, ACD/Labs Online (I-Lab).

Through the subscription to ACD/Labs Online, all members of the University of Toronto's academic community, at three distinct campuses, will gain unlimited access to the same cutting edge prediction algorithms and databases used at all of the top 10 pharmaceutical and chemical companies.

Members of the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Pharmacy are very pleased with the accuracy and breadth of tools now made available to them. The obvious benefits to individual research groups is readily apparent, however the true winners will be the undergraduate students who have gained a very powerful and easy to use tool to help them in visualizing and comprehending many challenging concepts that span the areas of pharmacology, organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, analytical chemistry, and pharmaceutical sciences.

ACD/Labs Online is a subscription-based or pay-per-prediction service that allows anyone with an Internet connection and web browser, preferably Internet Explorer or Netscape, access to almost all the NMR, physicochemical property value, and nomenclature prediction applications ACD/Labs currently develops. For a complete list of services, visit http://www.acdlabs.com/ilab/services.html.

ACD/Labs Online can also be accessed directly from ACD/ChemSketch if you have the ACD/I-Lab Add-on for ACD/'ChemSketch installed and are connected to the Internet.

To try ACD/Labs Online, you may login as a guest at the following website http://ilab.acdlabs.com/. To conduct a thorough evaluation of ACD/Labs Online, you will need to register at the website or request a site license trial by contacting education@acdlabs.com.

The freeware version of ACD/ChemSketch and ACD/I-Lab Add-on for ChemSketch may be downloaded from http://www.acdlabs.com/download.

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 is available at www.acdlabs.com.

About the University of Toronto

Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto is Canada's largest and most distinguished university. Consistently ranked Canada's top research-intensive university by Maclean's magazine, U of T offers teaching programs in 17 academic divisions. Its programs are held on the historic St. George campus in downtown Toronto, on campuses in Mississauga and Scarborough, and in nine fully affiliated teaching hospitals in Toronto. Along with the diversity of a world-class university, U of T also offers the intimate scale of small college life. The university is composed of 10 colleges, each with a distinctive feel and sense of community. It has more than 150 student clubs and organizations on all three campuses, and innumerable activities ranging from cultural events at Hart House to intercollegiate and intramural sporting activities. Further information about the University of Toronto can be obtained at www.utoronto.ca.