Chemical Databasing

Chemical laboratories today are faced with the challenge of having to effectively manage multitudes of chemical structures and associated data. The time and resources that could be saved by making the data available in an easily searchable repository is momentous, especially when increasing numbers of individuals and scientific bodies rely on electronic publishing to communicate their results.

Manage Your Synthetic Work

ACD/Labs chemical databasing software, ACD/ChemFolder, makes it possible for scientists to manage their synthetic work effectively. Included chemical drawing interface comparable with all of the major chemical electronic formats makes this task simple. Electronically organize and manage thousands of separate files with chemical structures and reactions, create and compare databases, and group and analyze data using advanced graphical presentation and statistical analysis in an easy to use interface.

Equipped with superior chemical reaction support, ACD/Labs' databasing software facilitates the storage of single- and multi-step reaction schemes, as well as the associated experimental reagent amounts, conditions, yields, and observations. Extensive search capabilities make it easy to retrieve data based on text, structure similarity, or substructure queries. Databases of structures and related data can also be transferred to a PDF document for easy viewing and sharing.

Store and Access Chemical Data

Through the integration of ACD/Labs' databasing software with other ACD/Labs products, it is possible to make the stored chemical data available to other members of your research team worldwide, or carry it with you to a warehouse or a meeting on your PDA. Read more:

• Grant access to the stored chemical data to other users over the Intranet or Internet.
  
  Relevant software: ACD/Web Librarian
   

Combine Databasing and Inventory Control

An additional module included with ACD/ChemFolder allows chemists to encode chemical structure information into 2D barcodes for enhanced inventory control. ACD/ChemCoder can also interpret the 2D barcodes scanned by industrial scanners and convert them into chemical structures with associated information. Read more about ACD/ChemCoder applications in the following overview of mobile technology: "Chemistry Databases in the Palm of Your Hand: New Palm and Pocket PC utilities useful in the laboratory".

Process and Store Analytical Results

Do you process your own spectra and want to gain easy access to the analytical results, link them to the peaks on chromatograms, and assign spectral data to particular structures and fragments? Specialized analytical databasing tools offered by ACD/Labs can do that, as well as unite the analytical results to create a structure-searchable database of analytical data, automate processing, and assist with spectral validation of structures. Read more.