ACD/Labs News Archives for I

TORONTO, June 30, 2000 - ACD/Labs Welcomes New Physicochemical Science Product Manager

ACD/Labs is proud to welcome Dr. Robert S. DeWitte to its Toronto Office. Rob will be joining us at the end of July 2000 and comes to ACD/Labs from Abbott Laboratories where he has excelled both as a scientist and as an information specialist. Rob's scientific background began at McMaster University where he earned a B.Sc. (Chemistry and Physics). At Harvard University, Robert focused his interests on theoretical and computational approaches to the prediction of ligand-protein binding which work led to the Ph.D. in Chemical Physics. At Abbott, Dr. DeWitte worked closely with Dr. Yvonne Martin in several areas of prediction including molecular properties, and is co-editor of an upcoming volume on the Hydrophobic effect in Drug Discovery. At Abbott, Robert also became active in emerging a direction for Discovery Informatics which led him to take responsibility for a major initiative in Discovery information management. Robert has taken on additional responsibility as Chair of the Working group on Cheminformatics at the Object Management Group's task force on LifeScience Research. Rob will be focussing his numerous skills on the development of ACD/Labs' line of phys-chem products, and his experiences and professional relationships in Pharmaceutical Discovery Research and Scientific Information Management are welcome additions to our team.

TORONTO, June 15th, 2000 - Advanced Chemistry Development Start Shipping Version 4.5 Software
Finally, after many months of innovation, development and rigorous testing, Advanced Chemistry Development are proud to announce that we have begun shipment of version 4.5 releases of our multiple software packages. It is less than a year since we released our last version but, in keeping with our company vision to innovate quality software at the pace required by top-level clients, we have added outstanding levels of functionality into our software modules. For a detailed listing of new capability for the individual components please consult our What's New page for each product. We are sure that you will agree that our efforts have produced a suite of tools that live up to expectations!

LONG BEACH, CA. June 10th 2000 - ASMS - Waters-Micromass and ACD/Labs Announce MassLynx Integration
At the American Society of Mass Spectrometry annual meeting in Long Beach, California, Waters-Micromass and ACD/Labs announced push button integration between Micromass MassLynx software (version 3.5) and ACD/MS Manager (Version 4.5). More...

WILMINGTON, NC, May, 2000 - ACD/Labs collaborates with Phosphorus Chemistry expert
ACD/Labs consults the experts. Advanced Chemistry Development is presently working with a number of experts in their individual fields in a consulting capacity. In particular we are presently in conversation with Dr Louis Quin, a renowned expert in Phosphorus chemistry and Phosphorus NMR. As an author of seven texts and over 240 refereed journal articles regarding Phosphorus chemistry we chose to consult with Dr Quin to ensure that our XNMR DB for P31 chemical shifts and couplings is as up to date as possible. As a result of our collaborations we will be expanding the database in the near future and expanding capability based on our input. We look forward to a fruitful collaboration.

TORONTO, May, 2000 - ACD/Labs offers onsite training support
For a number of years ACD/Labs has been performing onsite training for customers. This includes optimization of the training course based on the customers needs, dealing with example customer problems onsite and coaching of staff regarding implementation. As a result of our successes in this area we have chosen to extend our training staff and add to our faculty Dr. Brian Smith of Spectros Associates, a well known name in terms of onsite spectroscopy and scientific software training. We welcome Dr. Brian Smith to our expanding partners and collaborators.

TORONTO, April 25th, 2000 - ACD/Labs Supports the International Chemistry Olympiad
Advanced Chemistry Development is proud to support the US Chemistry Olympiad Study Camp with donations of our Chemistry software to help in their studies. The Chemistry Olympiad Study Camp this year will be held at the U. S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO from June 4-18. The purpose of the camp is to prepare the team for The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO)competition to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from July 2-11 (http://www.icho2000.gymfag.dk/). This is the 32nd IChO competition and will be the 17th year that the U. S. has sent a team. Last year's U. S. team placed first in the world! We wish the US team the best of luck!

TORONTO, April 22nd, 2000 - ACD/Labs announces collaboration with Milestone Development Services
Advanced Chemistry Development announce a collaboration with Dr. Mike Lee of Milestone Development Services, a consulting company dedicated to connecting industry needs with innovative technologies and solutions. Our collaboration will include developments around the utilization of ACD/Labs tools for training purposes as well as benefiting from Dr. Lee's extensive experience for innovating new and novel software applications for the spectroscopy marketplace.

TORONTO, April 17th, 2000 - Cohesive Technologies and Advanced Chemistry Development announce distributive agreement
Cohesive Technologies and ACD/Labs announce a co-marketing and distribution agreement of ACD/ChromManager and ACD/LC Simulator software. Cohesive Technologies manufactures the 2300 HTLC(TM) System, based on its revolutionary patented TurboFlow(R) liquid chromatography technology. Many major pharmaceutical companies use Cohesive's high-throughput equipment to find and develop new drugs quickly and efficiently. ACD/Labs provides unique Chromatography software capabilities including molecular structure based LC/GC simulation and processing and databasing of chromatograms with chemical structures. We look forward to continuous innovation of experimental technology and software solutions for the chromatography industry.

MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, April 11th, 2000 - The First ACD/ENC Users Meeting a BIG Success
The Experimental NMR Conference is certainly the largest NMR conference held in North America annually. Once again, we were there unveiling our latest and greatest capabilities in our NMR suite (release date May 15th). We also held our first ACD/ENC Users Meeting and had almost 50 people attend our seminars. If you missed our meeting or would like to revists some of the talks please peruse them online. Our next Users Meeting will be in October in Obernai, France.

TORONTO, April 3rd, 2000 - Just a couple of months after announcing the download of 40,000 copies of ChemSketch we are happy to announce we have reached our 50,000 mark! Mr. Doug Ferguson of CEM Corporation, NC was the fortunate winner and will be the recipient of a copy of ACD/ChemFolder and one year of free access to I-Lab, our web-based prediction site. ACD/ChemSketch still averages 150 downloads a day so if you don't have a copy yet download it today!
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TORONTO, April 3rd, 2000 - FREE IUPAC Naming service from Advanced Chemistry Development
Advanced Chemistry Development are proud to announce the release of FREE versions of our IUPAC Naming software available both online and as PC-based packages. Details regarding our naming service are given at our FREE IUPAC page. If you are interested in providing access to the ACD/Labs naming service from your webpage visit our I-Lab Affiliation page. ACD/Labs...providing access to the best tools free of charge!

Scholar-2000

TORONTO, April 3rd, 2000 - ACD/Labs Scholar of the Year Award 2000 Following on from the success of our Scholar of the Year Award 1999 we are now happy to announce our Year 2000 competition. The rules are the same as last year except the personal and school benefits are significantly better. The awards for the Year 2000 competition are listed at the rules page but first prize is $1000 for the winner, multiple ACD/Labs goodies PLUS a ChemSketch licence for their academic institution and FREE access to ALL predictions at the I-Lab. This awards package has a total value of over $7500 and you will be a hero at your school with professors and students alike. We are willing to receive submissions for ACD/Scholar of the Year Award 2000 until January 31st 2001, allowing us at least two months to judge the entries and select the winners. We encourage your participation...send your entries to info@acdlabs.com and mark them as ACD/Scholar of the Year award. Good luck!

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TORONTO, March 31st, 2000 - Advanced Chemistry Development celebrates 100,000 downloads!
Advanced Chemistry Development has been donating software to the world of chemistry at large since April 1998. On March 31st, 2000, almost two years later, ACD/Labs is happy to announce that we are celebrating both the 50,000th download of ACD/ChemSketch, our free structure drawing software and the 100,000th download of all of our free software modules combined. These modules include a chemistry programming language, Chembasic (free), spectroscopic databases, tools and utilies for MDL/ISIS and Cambridgesoft Chemdraw and most recently our I-Lab add-on for access to web-based services. During the past two years we have had people from as far away as Croatia, Columbia, Hungary, Peru, Indonesia, Turkey, Estonia, Aruba, Namibia, Ukraine, Korea and, as of last night, Mongolia! ACD/ChemSketch was recently the basis of our ACD/Scholar of the Year Award and proven to be an extremely powerful tool by the winning authors. We are certainly proud to be the authors of the most popular FREE chemical structure drawing software in the world, especially when the reviews are so favorable. We are certainly happy to be able to contribute back to the world of chemistry who has enabled us to be so successful. Thank you all! More...

Today's Chemist at Work, March 2000 - Advanced Chemistry Development cited
For those of you who have perused our webpages, it is possible that you have visited our partners page. Here at Advanced Chemistry Development we have been collaborating with some of the high profile advisory boards, hardware and software vendors in the industry to provide to our customers complete solutions, especially for chromatography and spectroscopy. In the March Issue of Today's Chemistry at Work, we were cited as being one of the primary examples of successful corporate collaborations.

Winners-1999

SAN FRANCISCO, ACS Meeting, 27th March 2000 - ACD/Labs Scholar of the Year Award
We are happy to announce the results of our first ACD/Labs Scholar of the Year Award. With the daunting task of wading through a large number of entries the judges were certainly challenged to come up with the winners. The work presented was of the highest scientific standard and we are happy to reproduce the award winners work at this website. The three winners, in order, were Györgyi Kovács, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary, Valentine P. Ananikov, ND Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Oleh Tanchak, the Department of Applied Chemical and Biological Sciences, Ryerson Polytechnic University. Honorable mention is also given to Jiansuo Wang, Institute of Physical Chemistry & College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University whose work we found extremely interesting. We thank everybody for their participation. You are all winners! ACD/Labs Scholar of the Year 2000 will be announced soon.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 2000 - ACD/Labs wins award at LogP2000.
Every few years a group of scientists whose primary interests include an interest in the determination and calculation of the octanol-water partition coefficient, LogP, gather together to discuss the state of the art in this area of chemistry. As one of the software developers at the cutting edge of physicochemical prediction software including logP, pK_a and logD it was only natural for us to participate and share our knowledge and understanding, and latest developments, with the experts in the field. We are therefore extremely proud to have had one of our three scientific poster presentation entitled "Correlation of Inhibition Constants for HIV-1 Protease and Viral Replication" voted as the best poster of the conference. Two other posters, entitled "Limitations of Fragmental Methods and ACD/LogP Training Feature" and "ACD/Labs Approaches for Phys-Chem Data Prediction" were also on display. These posters allowed us to demonstrate our capabilities and understanding in the field of LogP prediction and staying at the cutting edge of software development in this area of science.

TORONTO, 8th March 2000 - ACD/MS Manager offers Finnigan Xcalibur Support. While the support of native file formats for spectrometers is a challenge, we believe that this is the only appropriate route to providing integration between our spectroscopy software modules and different vendor data systems. We have continued to expand our format support for the impending 4.5 release. For ACD/MS Manager we are happy to announce the support of the OCX control provided to us by Finnigan to support their Xcalibur files. We have even established a Finnigan Users Page for aiding in the import of older formats.

TORONTO, 9 February 2000 - Reactive Reports, our chemistry webzine, continues to attract attention and recognition from the chemistry community. We have been awarded the "Critical Mass Award" with glowing comments including "...recognition for excellent designs, beautiful original graphics, informative content, entertaining, presented well and easy to access. Worthy enterprises and positive contributions to the Web. Thanks for helping make the Web a more interesting, useful and attractive place to visit." We are happy to contribute in this way to the World of Web Chemistry community.

TORONTO, 1 February 2000 - 1st ACD/Labs ENC Users meeting
Advanced Chemistry Development will be holding our first Experimental NMR Conference (ENC) Users Meeting at Asilomar on Tuesday morning from 9am until noon. This will be a "round table" discussion of software needs for the small molecule NMR spectroscopist and an overview of new release features in Version 4.5. This will be an invitation only meeting and if you are interested in participating please respond to info@acdlabs.com. Please note there is limited space.

TORONTO, 1 February 2000 - Advanced Chemistry Development and Fiveash Data Management Inc. are proud to announce the release of FDM FT-IR databases as add-on databases compatible with the ACD/UVIR manager software. Five FDM databases are presently available as add-ons. These include FT-IR spectra of Organic Compounds, Drugs, Polymers and Polymer Additives, Surfactants and Minerals and Inorganic Compounds. Please contact us for more information.

TORONTO, January 2000 - Today's Chemist at Work. In the January issue Terrance Rooney reviewed ChemSketch 4.0 as part of his Computers in Chemistry "Drawing Programs Reach New Dimensions" article. Included in his comments were "The freeware version has a remarkable complement of chemical drawing features...and is hard to beat". With an average of over 150 downloads per day ChemSketch is quickly becoming the new standard. Download your copy today.

TORONTO, 24 January 2000 - As we enter the New Millennium Advanced Chemistry Development is proud to announce that we have crossed our own magic number barrier....40,000 downloads of ChemSketch from our website. Since we first made ChemSketch, our structure drawing package, available for free in July 1998 we have been very happy to receive complimentary feedback. ChemSketch continues to develop based on your valuable comments so please continue to let us know what you'd like to see included! The 40,000th downloader of ChemSketch was Donald Piekarski, a senior chemist at Oxychem in Niagara Falls, NY. Don will receive a complimentary copy of our ACD/Name software and our recently released module for converting Names to Structures. Congratulations Don! More...

TORONTO, January 2000 - ACD/I-Lab II Release
With a list of services including systematic naming generation, NMR and physicochemical prediction, and online database searching by structure and substructure, the Interactive Laboratory (I-Lab) has become renowned as the one-stop shopping mall for prediction capability. The first release of I-Lab saw a Java-based site offering a structure drawing applet and Molfile upload to initate prediction and searches. In 1999 we released I-Lab support for ACD/ChemSketch, our FREE PC-based structure drawing package. As a result we have performed over 50,000 predictions and database searches in the last six months. Now we are proud to announce the release of I-Lab II, the commercial venture. With added capability in terms of both prediction technologies and databases I-Lab II offers access to our industry standard tools via an internet connection. It is possible to pay-per-prediction or subscribe to one of more services for a defined period of time. There are already academic schools taking advantage of annual site licences! I-Lab II will surely be recognized again as the portal to one-stop shopping for predictions and property database searches. Visit us now at http://ilab.acdlabs.com and sign up for your FREE trial.