MolecularNature Limited Purchases ACD/Structure Elucidator from Advanced Chemistry Development
Toronto, Canada, July 15, 2003 -
MolecularNature Limited (MNL) has purchased ACD/Structure Elucidator from Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) to aid their researchers in phytochemical compound discovery.
ACD/Structure Elucidator enables scientists to determine the chemical structure for unknown compounds using nearly any combination of experimental input data, including 1H and 13C NMR, 2D NMR, MS, and IR, along with information from Elemental Analysis. The powerful software package reduces the time spent on manual elucidations from several days to hours or minutes, and is capable of producing a range of possible structures that might otherwise be overlooked.
MNL was first introduced to ACD/Structure Elucidator in March of this year when they submitted data for a compound to the ACD/Structure Elucidator Challenge, an online challenge available to any company with structural elucidation problems and an interest in how ACD/Labs' Elucidation software works. Since January of 2003, ACD/Labs has received over 16 data sets from companies, including MNL, and has achieved a 100% success rate in the results. ACD/Labs answered MNL's challenge with a structure for their compound, and a report outlining how the solution was obtained.
Impressed with the results from the ACD/Structure Elucidator Challenge, MNL studied the software further and determined the benefits it would bring to their phytochemical research. Mr. Hadyn Parry, CEO of MolecularNature, states, "Our evaluation demonstrated the cost effectiveness of ACD/Structure Elucidator. We already elucidate many novel structures arising from our proprietary and collaborative drug discovery programs, but this software will allow MNL's experts to increase the rate significantly, to the benefit of our partners."
Antony Williams, Ph.D., VP of Scientific Development and Marketing at ACD/Labs, adds, "ACD/Structure Elucidator is being applied on a daily basis to the solution of problems which have tested even the best NMR spectroscopists in the world. We are pleased that MolecularNature recognizes the immense benefits this software will bring to their own elucidation challenges."
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 to produce ChemAnalyticsTM. 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, systematic nomenclature generation, and chemical patenting and publication. Combined, ACD/Labs' solutions create an analytical informatics system that provides dramatic feed-forward effects on the chemical and pharmaceutical research process. Founded in 1993, and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, ACD/Labs employs a team of over 100 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.
About Molecular Nature
MolecularNature Limited (MNL) is a Phytochemical compound discovery company concentrating on discovering novel compounds from temperate plants that have a known therapeutic activity. Formed in June 1999, MNL was a spin out from the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (IGER) in Aberystwyth. MNL has laboratories in Wales, and a commercial office in Maidenhead, UK. MNL uses its Phytoquest® platform to identify and isolate novel compounds of a wide range of classes. MNL has specific technology and expertise in the identification and isolation of water-soluble chemicals, putting them in position to isolate a full range of bio-active components. Information about MolecularNature Limited can be found at www.molecularnature.com.
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