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ChemSpider Press Releases
ACD/Labs Software Integrated into ChemSpider Service
RALEIGH, North Carolina, and TORONTO, Canada, April 10, 2007 - ChemZoo and Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.,
(ACD/Labs) announced a collaboration that will allow integration of a number of ACD/Labs software tools to the ChemSpider service,
a new online chemistry database and property prediction service provider. ACD/Labs properties will be generated and published for
over 10 million chemical structures using some components of the ACD/Labs PhysChem and Nomenclature software suites.
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“By collaborating with novel chemistry information sources such as ChemSpider, we strive to make chemically intelligent web
resources available to researchers and chemistry students, to help them navigate their way through the publicly available annals of
chemistry knowledge, and be able to find useful information quickly,” comments Daria Thorp, ACD/Labs’ Director of Marketing
Communications. “ACD/Labs’ commercial chemistry software is about bringing scientists within a department or across an
organization together into a network that facilitates collaboration and knowledge sharing to achieve a fast breakthrough in their
proprietary research, discovery, or development efforts. We are pleased to be able to contribute to the public chemistry community
as well, to help educate future scientists, and enable knowledge exchange between researchers via the Internet.”
This collaboration is a part of the continuous efforts by ACD/Labs to deliver access to chemistry software to the fingertips of chemists,
students, and researchers. Since 1998, ACD/Labs has offered a comprehensive freeware version of their chemistry drawing software,
ACD/ChemSketch that also includes IUPAC naming conversion, to the research community.
Now enhanced with free logP prediction, ACD/ChemSketch freeware has just celebrated its ¾ millionth download. ACD/Labs’
recent collaborative efforts have included the integration of physicochemical properties into the online chemistry database provided
at www.emolecules.com.
Joint efforts with the Selected Organic Reactions Database (SORD) is tapping into the vast reserves
of chemical reaction information from academic research, making it searchable by a variety of parameters and accessible over the internet
to users worldwide. The collaboration with ChemSpider brings together some of the industry’s premier prediction algorithms to
provide added value to chemists for the purpose of data mining.
The ChemSpider service offers chemists access to an enormous collection of chemical structures and associated properties. Currently,
ChemSpider allows access to a database of over 10 million compounds with text and structure/substructure searching capabilities. The
addition of ACD/Labs’ physicochemical parameters offers the benefits of filtering the data using an abundance of molecular physical
properties (ACD/LogP, polar surface area, boiling point, number of freely rotatable bonds, and more) to further refine data
mining, and to quickly identify chemical structures of interest. The ChemSpider service strives to become the foundation of an online
community for chemists. Future development will enable chemists around the world to add their own structures and reactions to the
database for public review and access. The intention is for ChemSpider to provide an environment where chemists will feel comfortable
annotating an already existing database of chemical structures, adding to the dataset, and exposing their research in a structure-centric
environment.
About ChemZoo
ChemZoo, Inc., was founded with the intention of providing online chemistry software and services to help build a chemical structure
centric community for chemists. Their first offering, ChemSpider, is a chemistry search engine built with the intention
of aggregating and indexing chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository and making it
available to everybody, at no charge. Founded in 2007 and located in Raleigh, North Carolina, ChemSpider intends to become a facilitator
in the exchange of structure-based information between chemists worldwide.
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. 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, and chemical patenting and publication. Combined, ACD/Labs solutions create an analytical informatics
system that provides dramatic feed-forward effects on the chemical research process. Founded in 1994, and headquartered in Toronto,
Canada, ACD/Labs employs a team of over 145 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 can be found at www.acdlabs.com .
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Disclaimer:
ChemZoo, Inc., is founded by Dr. Antony Williams, who is also serving as VP and Chief Science Officer for ACD/Labs. ChemZoo and ChemSpider
services are not affiliated with Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) and are developed independently of ACD/Labs initiatives.
ChemSpider to Incorporate More OpenEye Software
Santa Fe, NM, and Raleigh, NC, December 12th, 2007 - OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc., the developer of innovative
molecular modeling and cheminformatics solutions for drug discovery, and ChemZoo, Inc., the provider of online chemistry software
and services for the chemistry community, announced today they had entered into an agreement that will allow the incorporation of
a number of OpenEye’s products into ChemZoo’s online chemistry database and property prediction service, ChemSpider.
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OpenEye’s Lexichem has already been used to generate IUPAC names for compounds in the ChemSpider repository. In the future, Lexichem
will also be used to convert IUPAC or other chemical names provided by users of the ChemSpider site into chemical structures in real
time. Ogham will provide 2D depictions of chemical structures. Filter will calculate physicochemical properties for compounds in the
ChemSpider repository, while Quacpac will allow the normalization of protomeric and tautomeric forms. Lastly, OEChem will be the engine
behind the manipulation and conversion of standard molecule file formats.
“We are very pleased to contribute to ChemZoo’s vision of providing structure-based access to federated chemistry databases in a chemist-friendly
environment via ChemSpider”, said Dr. Matthew Stahl, Senior Vice President of OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc. “We’ve allowed the
academic community free access to our products for ten years, as we have continued our research towards better modeling and cheminformatics
tools. This new partnership is fully in line with that philosophy: chemists from around the globe will now have free access to a central
repository with efficient data-mining and rendering tools, partly powered by our technology. This is a great satisfaction for OpenEye.”
“The ChemSpider service presently offers chemists access to a database of nearly 18 million compounds with text and structure/substructure
searching capabilities”, continued Dr. Antony Williams, Founder and President of ChemZoo, Inc. “The incorporation of OpenEye’s technologies
will allow us to add important capabilities to both our transactional services as well as to enhance and improve the data within the
ChemSpider repository. The ChemSpider service strives to become the foundation of an online chemical structure centric community for
chemists. Chemists around the world can already add their own structures and analytical data to the database for public review and
access. The near future will continue to enhance our collaborative and enabling environment for chemists.”
About OpenEye
OpenEye Scientific Software Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with offices in Boston, Massachusetts
and Strasbourg, France. It was founded in 1997 to develop large-scale modeling applications and toolkits - programming libraries suitable
for custom development. Primarily aimed towards drug discovery and design, areas of application include chemical informatics, structure
generation, docking, shape comparison, charge & electrostatics and visualization. The software is designed for scientific rigor, as
well as speed, scalability and platform independence. OpenEye software is distributable across multiple processors, supports 64-bit
processing, and runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, as well as HP, IBM, SGI and SUN flavors of UNIX. For further information on the
company and its products, see www.eyesopen.com
About ChemZoo
ChemZoo, Inc., was founded with the intention of providing online chemistry software and services to help build a chemical structure
centric community for chemists. Their first offering, ChemSpider, is a chemistry search engine built with the intention of aggregating
and indexing chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository and making it available to everybody,
at no charge. Founded in 2007 and located in Raleigh, North Carolina, ChemSpider intends to become a facilitator in the exchange of
structure-based information between chemists worldwide. For further information, see www.chemspider.com
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ChemZoo Joins Microsoft BioIT Alliance
Wake Forest, NC, March 27th, 2008 — ChemZoo Inc. announced today that it has joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance,
a cross-industry group working to enhance collaboration among life sciences organizations to accelerate the pace of drug discovery
and development. More...
"Collaborative science is facilitated by a common development platform and cooperation between informatics companies," said Antony
Williams, President of ChemZoo. "The ChemSpider Free Access website has been delivered with the intention of building a structure
centric community for chemists and is happy to contribute to the Microsoft BioIT Alliance initiative. As a leader in the domain of
online chemistry data management we look forward to collaborating with Microsoft BioIT alliance partners. In these efforts we believe
that ChemSpider as a common public access data platform will allow BioIT members to source information and connect to a database allowing
their users to solve problems more quickly. By providing a platform for crowdsourcing enhancement of an online chemistry resource
researchers around the world will have access to community-based data and knowledge.”
Rudy Potenzone, Worldwide Industry Technology Strategist for Pharmaceuticals and BioIT Alliance Director, said: “We are thrilled to
have ChemZoo join the Alliance. The ChemSpider team has created in a short time an important free resource for the scientific community
in an innovative and collaborative environment that will be a model for future projects in scientific information. We welcome their
participation.”
The BioIT Alliance is designed to enable collaboration among organizations in the life sciences field in order to shorten the time
between discovery of new biological data and the application of that knowledge to human health. ChemZoo will enhance their ChemSpider
platform in collaboration with other alliance members to provide access in a manner enabling collaborative science and, where appropriate,
public chemistry-based knowledge management.
About ChemZoo
ChemZoo, Inc., was founded with the intention of providing online chemistry software and services to help build a chemical structure
centric community for chemists. Their first offering, ChemSpider, is a chemistry search engine built with the intention of aggregating
and indexing chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository and making it available to everybody,
at no charge. Founded in 2007 and located in Raleigh, North Carolina, ChemSpider intends to become a facilitator in the exchange of
structure-based information between chemists worldwide. For further information, see www.chemspider.com
About BioIT Alliance
Formed in 2006, the BioIT Alliance is a cross-industry group working to integrate science and technology in order to accelerate the
pace of drug discovery and realize the potential of personalized medicine. Founding members include Accelrys Software Inc., Affymetrix,
Inc., Agilent Technologies Inc., Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Applied Biosystems, The BioTeam Inc., Digipede Technologies LLC, Discovery
Biosciences Corporation, Geospiza Inc., Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Illumina Inc., InterKnowlogy, Microsoft Corporation,
Sun Microsystems Inc., The Scripps Research Institute, VizX Labs LLC and other key companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware
and software industries. Additional information about the BioIT Alliance can be found on the BioIT Alliance Web site at www.bioitalliance.org.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses
realize their full potential. For more information, please visit www.microsoft.com.
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