ACD/Labs News Archives

TORONTO, December 21, 2005 - ACD/Labs Announces Manager of Business Development in North America
ACD/Labs is pleased to welcome Tim Blacker as the Manager of Business Development in North America. Tim is a former member of the ACD/Labs team, having worked in various Sales and Business Development capacities from 1996 until 2001. During that timeframe, Tim was an instrumental part of ACD/Labs' early success. Over the last 5 years he has performed Business Development and Marketing roles in a number of life science and scientific software companies, including Pharma Algorithms, Bioinformatics Solutions Inc., and most recently, Protana. Tim has a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, with a Pharmacology/Toxicology double specialist. Tim will be working from our head office in Toronto, Canada.
 

TORONTO, December 13, 2005 - Bayer CropScience Extends the Installation of ACD/Labs' NMR Software Across European Research Centres
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce that Bayer CropScience, a worldwide leader in agriculture and environmental health solutions, has chosen to extend the installation of ACD/Labs' expert tools for NMR prediction, processing, and data management across all their major European research centers at Monheim, Frankfurt, and Lyon. Read more...
 

BUENA VISTA, FL, USA, December 7, 2005 - Chenomx, Inc Announces Metabolite Database for ACD/Labs
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) and Chenomx, Inc., are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Chenomx Metabolite Database for ACD/Labs. Read more...
 

CAMBRIDGE, TORONTO, December 1, 2005 - Reactive Reports Celebrates Its Fiftieth Issue
Reactive Reports, the chemistry Webzine from science writer David Bradley and software company ACD/Labs, is proud to celebrate its fiftieth issue this month. Read more...
 

TORONTO, November 29, 2005 - ACD/Labs and Protasis/MRM Announce Collaboration to Offer a Complete High-Throughput System for NMR
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) and Protasis/MRM are proud to announce the start of a collaboration that will produce the most complete automated high-throughput system for NMR data production and analysis available. By combining Protasis' One-Minute NMR system and ACD/Labs' Automation Server, the entire NMR process - from loading samples to interpretation - is now automated. Read more...
 

TORONTO, November 22, 2005 - ACD/Labs Integrates ChemSketch to Chmoogle Search Engine
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce that it has integrated both our commercial and freeware ChemSketch application to the Chmoogle Web site (www.chmoogle.com), created by eMolecules, Inc. Read more...
 

TORONTO, November 15, 2005 - ACD/Labs Streamlines LC/MS Peak Identification with ACD/Ion Presence™ Technology
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce ACD/Ion Presence™, the latest improvement to ACD/MS Manager software for processing, analyzing, and managing mass spectrometric data. Read more...
 

TORONTO, November 7, 2005 - Listen to an Interview with Dr. Antony Williams, ACD/Labs Vice President and Chief Science Officer, for the "Drug Discovery and Development Roundtable"
This two minute recording offers listeners a high-level view on the values ACD/Labs software offers to the pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Broadly used in this highly competitive and emerging marketplace, ACD/Labs' software has helped companies to effectively utilize their internal systems and extract valuable knowledge from the ocean of information that is currently available in-house to the medicinal, synthetic, and analytical chemists. Our predictive tools help optimize leads to bring drugs to the market faster. Multiple software file formats have been brought together and supported in a uniform platform for efficient analysis, assembly, and dissemination, epitomizing the company's "Switzerland approach" of vendor neutrality to collaboration and integration. Click here to run the recording in Windows Media Audio (WMA) format.
 

TORONTO, November 7, 2005 - Advanced Chemistry Development's Free Naming Software Service Generates 200,000 IUPAC Names via the World Wide Web
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) remains the premier supplier of quality systematic nomenclature generation for over half a decade. New synthetic structures are constantly being developed, making it increasingly important to adopt definitive systematic nomenclature and utilization of a software tool to ensure accuracy and organizational homogeneity in generating chemical names. Read more...
 

TORONTO, October 26, 2005 - Companies Announce Intention to Integrate ACD/Labs' PhysChem and Nomenclature Software and Klee's Kalabie Application
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce that it has established a collaboration with Klee, one of the leading vendors in Electronic Laboratory Notebooks. The intention is to deliver an integrated product, delivering access to the industry standard nomenclature and physicochemical prediction algorithms via the Kalabie electronic notebook, with the intention of delivering more efficient and repeatable discovery processes. Read more...
 

TORONTO, October 18, 2005 - ACD/Labs Releases Version 9.0 of Chemical Drawing and Nomenclature Software - Now Both InChI Compatible
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce that with the release of version 9.0 of the chemical structure drawing program, ACD/ChemSketch and the expert nomenclature tool, ACD/Name, we have now introduced full compatibility with the InChI™ chemical nomenclature protocol, making it possible to produce unique alphanumeric string representations for chemical compounds that will facilitate the communication of molecular structures electronically. Read more...
 

500,000!!!

TORONTO, September 19, 2005 - Announcing 500,000 Downloads of Freeware ChemSketch
It is time, yet again, to celebrate another milestone for our ChemSketch freeware. This one is a special milestone: half a million copies have now been downloaded and are being used worldwide. There is no doubt that chemistry software is playing an increasing role in producing publication quality chemical structures for reports and publications. Chemistry software keeps improving and evolving, and so does ACD/ChemSketch. For example, IUPAC Chemical Identifier (InChI™) is now supported in our freeware. Furthermore, the ability to draw Markush structures efficiently and improvements to polymer and organometallic structure drawing capabilities speaks to our desire to offer an ever more complete solution for chemists. One of the main reasons for the popularity of this software is the fact that its powerful tools remain easy and intuitive. The ease of use is one of the central points reported in a feature article by David Bradley that includes interviews with chemists from around the world who have chosen ACD/ChemSketch as their drawing package of choice. The fact that we have reached a half million downloads a year ahead of earlier projections is a testament to the growing popularity of this software in the scientific community. Read more...
 

TORONTO, August 29, 2005 - ACD/Labs Announces a New Partnership with the Center for Chemical Methodology and Library Development at Boston University (CMLD-BU)
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs) and the Center for Chemical Methodology and Library Development at Boston University (CMLD-BU) would like to announce that they have entered into a partnership to provide the CMLD-BU with a number of NMR-related software modules to aid them with structure confirmation, verification, and elucidation efforts. Some of the included modules are ACD/Labs' flagship computer-assisted structure elucidation package, ACD/Structure Elucidator, and ACD/Labs' high throughput NMR analysis software, ACD/CombiNMR. More...
 

TORONTO, August 25, 2005 - ACD/Labs to Integrate PhysChem and Nomenclature Software with SciTegic's Pipeline Pilot Platform
ACD/Labs is pleased to announce that it has established a collaboration with SciTegic, the leader in data pipelining and workflow tools. ACD/Labs has joined SciTegic's independent software vendor (ISV) partner program to provide software compatibility between their product lines. Joint customers will be able to access ACD/Labs' PhysChem and Nomenclature batch software from within SciTegic's Pipeline Pilot™ framework, leading to more efficient and repeatable discovery processes. More...
 

TORONTO, August 22, 2005 - ACD/Labs Provides Chemists with New Affordable Naming Software
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce the release of their new software, ACD/Name Chemist Version, offering versatile chemical drawing, editing, and reporting functions, paired with the industry-standard nomenclature algorithms for IUPAC name generation and name-to-structure conversion. More...
 

TORONTO, August 15, 2005 - ACD/Labs Releases Version 9.0 of Software
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce the release of their version 9.0 software, marking 11 years of ongoing software development, and providing deeper integration between various analytical, chemical, nomenclature, and physicochemical modules to help enable efficient information exchange and communication at the enterprise level. More...
 

TORONTO, August 10, 2005 - German Institute for Polymers Utilizes ACD/Labs' NMR Software Tools in Polymer Research
The Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut (German Institute for Polymers, DKI) at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, (TU Darmstadt) has chosen a suite of ACD/Labs' NMR prediction, processing, and databasing tools to aid in the identification of polymers, copolymers, and macromolecules at Dr. Wolf Hiller's lab in Darmstadt, Germany. More...
 

TORONTO, August 8, 2005 - New ACD/Labs Software Assists in Chemical Structure Design
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce the release of their new software, ACD/Structure Design Suite, that analyses the physicochemical properties of the new chemical entity or parent compound, and suggests subsequent biologically-acceptable substituents and structural modifications, leading to enhanced molecular physical properties, ADME characteristics, or environmental endpoints. More...
 

TORONTO, August 1, 2005 - ACD/LogD Suite Selected by Degussa as (Q)SAR Tool for Registering Chemicals Under EU REACH Mandate
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce that the Services Environment, Safety Health Chemicals Safety Management Department of Degussa AG at Hanau, Germany, will use ACD/LogD Suite software as a (Q)SAR tool to evaluate the structure-activity relationships of many existing chemical substances on the European Union (EU) market. Under a new regulatory framework for chemicals proposed by the European Commission to improve health and environmental protection, chemicals require re-evaluation to gain better knowledge of their potential risks on human health and the environment. More...
 

TORONTO, July 20, 2005 - Gedeon Richter Chooses ACD/ChemSketch as Their Chemical Drawing Package
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce that Chemical Works of Gedeon Richter Ltd., the largest pharmaceutical company in Hungary and a key player in the Eastern European pharmaceutical market, has licensed ACD/Labs' comprehensive chemical drawing software, ACD/ChemSketch, for their headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, and manufacturing unit in Dorog, Hungary. More...
 

TORONTO, July 5, 2005 - ACD/Labs Fosters Academic Research into New Environmental Applications of NMR Spectroscopy Through Software Donation to the University of Toronto
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) announces a substantial donation of software to the Environmental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Centre at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, to facilitate Dr. André Simpson in his research on the structural categories of carbon in the environment. This donation includes ACD/SpecManager SQL, ACD/NMR Predictor Suite, ACD/Structure Elucidator, ACD/LC Simulator, ACD/Name to Structure, ACD/ChemFolder, and ACD/MS Fragmenter. More...