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NEWS FLASH: Toronto, Canada (February 13, 2008) - Structure Elucidation an Important Key to National Research Council's Goal of a Healthier, Wealthier South Africa
CSIR acquires structure elucidation software that will allow streamlining of a critical task in chemical and biological discovery, plant biotechnologies and more Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (January 22, 2008) - Building Solutions for Pharmaceutical Research with ACD/Analytical Automation Suite
Novel software solution brings high-throughput capabilities to knowledge management for various analytical techniques, automating and accelerating data reduction, standardizing results and more. Read more...
 

Falls Church, VA (December 12, 2007) - Chemical Drawing Package Finds a Home in the Realm of Intellectual Property Law
Law firm chooses ACD/ChemSketch to make quick work of drawing and editing chemical structures for patents and legal documentation. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (December 5, 2007) - Delivering What Chemists Want—ACD/Labs Introduces New NMR Software
ACD/1D NMR Assistant promises to make NMR data analysis and interpretation the way it should be—easy, fast, and helpful. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (November 26, 2007) - ACD/Labs Releases Version 11 Desktop Software Complete with Powerful New Features and Products
A new version of acclaimed software for chemistry, filled with enhancements, new features and functions, and a brand new product for NMR interpretation, is now available from Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs). Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (November 19, 2007) - Power-Packed Molecular Property Predictors Get a Boost in Newest Version Release
A new logP prediction model, an enhanced pK_a model, and a customizable report for quickly profiling individual compounds are just some of the highlights of ACD/Labs PhysChem Version 11.0. Read more...
 

Sales Force Grows with the Addition of New West Coast Account Manager
November, 12 2007—ACD/Labs is pleased to introduce Patrick Wheeler as a new Account Manager for the West Coast region. Patrick joins the ACD/Labs team after seven years as a Principal Scientist; for the past four years he led the Open-Access Instrumentation Team in Discovery Chemistry at Pfizer, La Jolla. In that role, he worked with walkup NMR and LC/MS, high resolution MS, NMR-based small molecule structure elucidation, high-throughput NMR, and also served as scientific liaison in outsourcing arrangements for physical properties measurements and small-molecule X-ray. Patrick was instrumental in the collaboration between Pfizer and Protasis to develop high-throughput technologies for capillary NMR. Previously, he spent 10 years working on NMR and LC/CE at Isis Pharmaceuticals, specializing in nucleosides and oligonucleotides. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (October 10, 2007) - Improving the Quality of Lead Candidates by Equipping Chemists with Predictive Tools
Molecular property prediction enables chemists to design lead compounds with optimal physical properties, thereby reducing the likelihood of failure later in the discovery pipeline. Read more...
 

SANTA CLARA, CA and TORONTO, ON (October 8, 2007) - Integration of ACD/Labs calculators and Symyx® Draw promotes improved efficiency, productivity in research and discovery
No-charge add-ins integrate Symyx Draw with ACD/Labs' nomenclature software, physical property calculators and NMR predictors. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (September 26, 2007) - Flexible Options Allow Greater Access to Chemical Nomenclature Tools
Making chemical nomenclature software available to all chemists enables greater efficiency and boosts the overall quality of naming in the corporate and public domain. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (September 18, 2007) - Helping Chemists Get Access to the NMR Tools They Need
Extending the applications of expert tools can make a difference to the bottom line for companies large and small. Read more...
 

Blacksburg, VA (August 30, 2007) - Biochemical Profiling Research Group Implements New Software for Metabolomics
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute uses innovative software from ACD/Labs to tackle biomedical and agricultural research. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (August 8, 2007) - NMR for Everyone—Manchester University Provides Access to Industry-Leading Software
Site-wide access to off-line NMR processing software gives research staff and students power to process and report their own NMR data, away from the instrument and in the comfort of their own lab, office, or home. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (July 26, 2007) - How Natural Product Research Benefits from Computer Assisted Structure Elucidation
Unigen Pharmaceuticals reaps the rewards of a software product that enables CASE, better data management, and reporting. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (July 23, 2007) - Big Solutions for Small Companies: ACD/Labs Software Shortens the Path to Marketplace Success
It is difficult to compete as a small- or medium-sized biotech company in the world of Big Pharma. If the goal is to bring innovative medicines to the marketplace in a cost-effective and timely manner, the road to success is fraught with obstacles, both large and small. What if there was software that could make the path to achieving those goals shorter and a whole lot smoother? Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (July 17, 2007) - Got NMR? A New Blog Highlights News and Tips for NMR Software Users
A new resource highlighting topics of interest to the NMR community is now available. Ryan's Blog on NMR Software promises to deliver up-to-date information and interesting tidbits about NMR Software, and how it can make your NMR workload more manageable. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (May 2, 2007) - Related Fragment Screening: Swift and Easy Elucidation of Drug Metabolites
Software assigns, interprets, and organizes LC/MS data, making it easier to visualize structural relationships between parent drugs and metabolites. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada and Marlboro, USA (April 16, 2007) - ACD/Labs and Protasis Shatter the High-Throughput Bottleneck for NMR Analysis
Collaboration between ACD/Labs and Protasis/MRM produces the most complete automated high-throughput system available for NMR data production and analysis. Read more...
 

Raleigh, North Carolina, and Toronto, Canada (April 10, 2007) - ACD/Labs Software Integrated into ChemSpider Service
Partnership brings predicted logP property values and systematic nomenclature identifiers to over 10 million chemical structures online, to support ChemZoo's vision of creating a chemical community. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (April 9, 2007) - Scientists at ACD/Labs Co-Author 'Most Accessed' Paper in MRC
Journal Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry lists an article on indirect covariance as the most accessed article on the publications website. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (March 29, 2007) - eMolecules Announces Integration of ACD/Labs LogP Predictions for Chemical Structures
Partnership brings predicted logP and related property values to more than 5 million chemical structures online. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (March 29, 2007) - Three Quarters of a Million Users Drawing Chemical Structures the ACD/Labs Way
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) recently celebrated the 750,000^th download—by users from literally every country on the planet—of their chemical structure drawing tool, ACD/ChemSketch. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (March 25, 2007) - New Freeware Offering Makes ACD/Labs Lipophilicity Predictions Available to All
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) today announced the release of a new freeware offering, downloadable from the ACD/Labs website. ACD/LogP, a software tool for predicting the lipophilicity of compounds based on their chemical structure, will now be available as an add-on (ACD/LogP Freeware) to the free and commercially-available chemical drawing package, ACD/ChemSketch. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada (March 12, 2007) - Collaborative Efforts Deepen Understanding in Alzheimer's Research
Since its inception in 1994, Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) has maintained a tradition of open collaboration with researchers in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as non-profit organizations and academic institutions. These collaborations have resulted in progress towards solutions to some very complex chemical issues. Read more...
 

Piscataway, NJ, and Toronto, Canada (March 2, 2007) - ACD/Labs Naming Software Celebrates Support of Worldwide Repository of Protein Structures for Over Five Years
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) and the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) are proud to announce the extension of a collaboration in which ACD/Labs will continue to provide molecular nomenclature software support to wwPDB for use in its data processing and annotation operations. Their mutually beneficial relationship has recently celebrated its five year anniversary. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada, February 6, 2007 - Wockhardt Equips Drug Discovery Researchers with ACD/Labs Software
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce that the Wockhardt Research Centre, Aurangabad, has equipped its new drug research facility with ACD/Labs NMR Predictors, NMR Managers, and ACD/Structure Design Suite. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada, January 29, 2007 - ACD/Labs Approaches Benchmark in NMR Prediction Accuracy with Release of New Software Version
ACD/Labs unveils a new version of their NMR prediction software building on large databases of experimental data, introducing new structural diversity, and continually developing their proprietary algorithms. As a result, the accuracy of NMR prediction for all nuclei treated by ACD/Labs has reached an all-time best and is approaching statistical benchmarks that have taken over 10 years to achieve. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada, and San Francisco, CA, January 23, 2007 - Reel Two and ACD/Labs Collaborate on Better Extraction of Chemical Structures from Patent Data
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) and Reel Two, Inc., have partnered to apply ACD/Labs' leading nomenclature software to the challenging task of converting chemical names found in full text patents to chemical structures. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada, January 17, 2007 - ACD/Labs Software Helps Achaogen to Improve Lead Optimization Efforts
Following a recent software purchase, developer of novel antibacterial compounds, Achaogen, Inc., now uses ACD/Labs' structure design software to aid the development and optimization of new products for combating drug-resistant pathogens. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada and Northridge, CA, January 15, 2007 - Zinsser Analytic and ACD/Labs Collaborating For the Betterment of High-Throughput Science
ACD/Labs and Zinsser Analytic are establishing an open relationship to better serve the Drug Discovery and Material Science communities by ensuring that existing and future technologies offered by both companies work together to meet the needs of customers. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada, January 11, 2007 - ACD/Name Ranks Best of the Best According to Recently Published Study
In a recent article published in the journal Molecules (2006, 11, 925-928), author Gernot A. Eller (Department of Drug Synthesis, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna) compared three 'state-of-the-art' nomenclature software tools, including Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.'s, (ACD/Labs') ACD/Name 9.0, concluding that ACD/Name was the best option available for computerized systematic nomenclature. Read more...
 

Toronto, Canada, January 10, 2007 - Vertex Pharmaceuticals Purchases ACD/Labs' Nomenclature Software
Scientists working for global biotechnology company Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated now have a new tool, ACD/Name Batch, which allows them to quickly generate systematic names for new chemical compounds added to the company's registry. Read more...