ACD and Waters Announce Integration
ACD/MolX to Become Part of Millennium®32 Software
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Milford, MA and Toronto, Canada, August 27, 2001 - Advanced Chemistry Development (Toronto, Canada), and Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) have signed a partnership agreement whereby ACD will provide its MolX software to scientists for use together with Waters Millennium32 chromatography software. The ACD component, based on ActiveX, will enable chemical structures to be viewed with chromatographic peaks. The integration with ACD/ChemSketch software will also allow structures to be appended to chromatograms so that the two-dimensional structural drawings can be stored in the Millennium32 database for later retrieval. The chromatogram, structure, and experimental conditions become distinct, but integrated, parts of the database record of the analysis. At any time, a scientist can search the database by structure, substructure, chromatographic parameter (e.g. mobile phase, column brand, column type) and retrieve results quickly.
The "structure intelligence" provided by ACD/MolX is expected to be especially attractive to scientists using photodiode array detection and mass spectrometry who want to associate structures with spectra and who wish to assign as much information to their samples as possible. ACD ActiveX components are available as a structural integration add-on for Version 4.0 of Millennium32 Software which was introduced in March at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry. Waters has scheduled the first shipments for late in September.
"Chromatographic science depends on the physical property attributes of individual molecular species and their interactions with the chromatographic column and mobile phase. We are excited about our collaborative partnership with Waters and think that the combination of our mutual software capabilities will allow scientists to realize significant productivity gains and access to legacy data," said Antony Williams, ACD's Vice President - Scientific Development and Marketing.
"Our customers are asking for tools that enable them to extract more chemical information from their data," said Tom Hall, Senior Marketing Manager - Data Products, Waters Corporation. "This agreement will allow both companies to demonstrate the powerful, combined capabilities of Waters chromatography software products and ACD's software tools to our mutual customers. We also look forward to working with Advanced Chemistry Development to investigate opportunities for closer integration between the two firms' products, in order to increase their combined problem-solving capabilities and ease-of-use."
When completed, Millennium32 Software will be the only 21 CFR Part 11 compliant-ready chromatography data system with chemical structure capability.
About Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT), headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts is the world's largest provider of HPLC instrumentation, chromatography chemistries, results management software, and related support services. The company reported revenues of over $795M for 2000 and has more than 3,500 employees. The company's Millennium chromatography software, first introduced in 1990, has more than 30,000 copies in use worldwide.
More information on Millennium software is available at http://www.waters.com/ .
About Advanced Chemical Development
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. is a leader in the field of physical property prediction, desktop chromatography and spectroscopy management, systematic naming, and Web-based access to chemistry prediction. Founded in 1993 and with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, the company employs over 100 people and has established worldwide distribution channels. ACD's mission is to define a new standard in capability for chemistry-based software, addressing the needs of spectroscopy, chromatography, global solutions for analytical data management, physical property prediction, and chemical naming. Advanced Chemistry Development has been named one of the fastest growing technology companies in Canada, according to the 2001 Canadian Technology Fast 50 Program, which tracks company growth over a 5-year period.
Information on the company and its products can be found at www.acdlabs.com .
Millennium and Waters are trademarks of Waters Corporation.
Advanced Chemistry Development and ChemSketch are trademarks of Advanced Chemistry Development.
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