ACD/Labs News Archives

TORONTO, December 18, 2002 - Synthematix and ACD/Labs Announce Their Collaboration to Integrate Selected Products
Synthematix, Inc. and Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD/Labs) announce a new partnership to integrate selected market-leading ACD/Labs solutions with Synthematix's Arthur™ Suite, a comprehensive chemistry workflow environment for synthetic chemists. Read the complete press release.

TORONTO, December 17, 2002 - ACD/ChemSketch supports IUPAC Chemical Identifiers (C&E News)
Chemical & Engineering News published an article highlighting ACD/Labs' contribution to the development of IUPAC Chemical Identifiers (IChI). "Advanced Chemistry Development is already supplying users with software from its website that connects its ACD/ChemSketch structure-drawing package directly to a test version of the IChI algorithm."
Read the full article here.

TORONTO, November 27, 2002 - ACD/Labs Announces New Product Manager for the NMR Product Line
Advanced Chemistry Development is happy to announce the new product manager for our NMR product line. Brent Lefebvre recently joined us from Chenomx where he was the Product Development Manager responsible for the development of software to support Metabonomics analysis. Prior to Chenomx, he was employed as a spectroscopist for BioTools Incorporated, investigating the development of Magnetic Resonance Diagnostics (MRD). ACD/Labs is committed to the development of functionality to support metabonomics in our analytical software applications. We look forward to Brent applying his skills in this area to the future development of the ACD/SpecManager software suite.

TORONTO, November 20, 2002 - A Response to the Article "Using Neural Networks for ¹³C Chemical Shift Prediction - Comparison with Traditional Methods"
Relative to the article published by Meiler et al. in J. Magn. Reson. 157, 242-252 (2002), we wish to offer a response regarding the application of ACD/CNMR Predictor, version 6.0, to the prediction of the chemical shifts for Taxol. Chemical shifts are obviously dependent on the configurations of double bonds and chiral centers. As a result, for any software application used to predict shifts, appropriate care must be taken when sketching the molecular structure as an input to the prediction algorithm. Specifically, using the representation of the chemical structure displayed in the article, it appears that the appropriate drawing rules were not used to provide a good input structure. When drawn correctly the statistics for ACD/CNMR Predictor shows that ACD/Labs offers superior prediction capabilities to the neural network algorithms and all other approaches cited in the article. More...

TORONTO, November 4, 2002 - Reactive Reports proud winner of the 2002-2003 Golden Web Award
The International Association of Web Masters and Designers recognized Reactive Reports as a recipient of their 2002-2003 Golden Web Award. The Golden Web Awards are "presented to those sites whose web design, originality and content have achieved levels of excellence deserving of recognition." We are thrilled to have Reactive Reports acknowledged with this award.

TORONTO, November 1, 2002 - ACD/Labs MS Seminar: Converting Data Into Knowledge - Applying ACD/Labs Mass Spectrometry Software to the Detection and Identification of Unknowns
ACD/Labs invites you to join them at the Westin Princeton, in Princeton, NJ for a half day of Mass Spec discussions on Tuesday, December 10th. Learn about applications of ACD/MS Manager to the elucidation of metabolites and structural verification. View the agenda and register early as space is limited.

TORONTO, October 23, 2002 - Advanced Chemistry Development Inc., and CambridgeSoft Corporation announce plans to integrate ACD/SpecX technology with E-Notebook
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) announced that it will work to integrate its SpecX technology with CambridgeSoft's E-Notebook. Customers in the US, Japan, and Europe have expressed a preference for the versatility, performance, and ease of use that the ACD/SpecX technology provides, and have requested that both companies work together to deliver best-of-breed applications to their scientist users. More...

TORONTO, October 16, 2002 - ACD/Labs Reaches 400,000 Software Downloads
As we achieve 200,000 downloads of our popular ChemSketch structure drawing program, we also reach 400,000 total software downloads. Less than 10 months after our last milestone achievement of 300,000 downloads, ACD/Labs has surpassed the 400,000 mark and continues to add to the total every day. With downloads occurring at a rate of approximately 400 per day, we continue to surpass Moore's Law and stand by our forecast of reaching 1,000,000 downloads within the next five years.

TORONTO, October 16, 2002 - ACD/Labs Announces 200,000 Downloads of ACD/ChemSketch
In June 1998 Advanced Chemistry Development, ACD/Labs, made the ACD/ChemSketch chemical structure drawing program available as freeware. Now, just over 4 years later, ACD/Labs is proud to announce that on October 15, 2002 the 200,000th copy of the award winning and highly reviewed software was downloaded by Mr. Boris Nachtsheim from Frankfurt, Germany. Antony Williams, VP of Scientific Development and Marketing, comments, "When we released ACD/ChemSketch we believed that chemists worldwide would benefit from the quality of our drawing software. While we certainly feel validated, we are incredibly proud to be recognized with the ongoing feedback and comments from the users. Their requests for enhancements continue to keep us active in developing the premier molecular structure drawing software." More...

TORONTO, October 8, 2002 - Advanced Chemistry Development Enhances Integration with Marinlit
ACD/Labs has enhanced their integration with the Marinlit database through direct software connections. With the next version of Marinlit, users will be able to view all predicted chemical shifts in an ACD/CNMR predictor user database. This improved partnership will provide users of the Windows version of Marinlit software with access to the strengths of the ACD/Labs interface for spectrum display and manipulation and, as users of the ACD/CNMR predictor program, direct access to the industry standard NMR prediction platform utilized by companies all over the world. The databases have also been populated with physicochemical properties from the ACD/Labs PhysChem suite and systematic names from ACD/Labs' renowned software package ACD/Name. For more details, please read the ACD/Labs newsletter for Marinlit users.

TORONTO, October 2, 2002 - ACD/Labs Licenses Patent Rights for QSDAR from the FDA
ACD/Labs announces that it has licensed the rights to U.S. Patent Application Nos. 09/496,314 and 09/629,557 from the FDA. The technology represented in these patents will be utilized by ACD/Labs for the development of software modules which examine spectrum-structure Quantitative Spectrum Data Activity Relationship (QSDAR) correlations. ACD/Labs NMR predictors have been utilized in the development of this work by scientists at the FDA. Beger et al have reported the details of these developments in a number of recent publications. Antony Williams, VP of Scientific Development and Marketing, comments, "We appreciate the opportunity to bring our technology developments to bear on the development of this technology and look forward to delivering an integrated suite of tools to allow QSDAR analyses."

TORONTO, September 20, 2002 - ACD/Labs Funds Basic Research in NMR
Advanced Chemistry Development is happy to announce a collaborative project presently being conducted with Dr. István Pelczer of Princeton University. This project will test the viability of high sensitivity 13C 1D DEPT-135 NMR experiments with a focus on its applications on component analysis. ACD/Labs has provided funds to enable his laboratory to work on this particular project during the next few months and will be making appropriate modifications to some of our core NMR software components to support the effort. We look forward to a profitable alliance with Dr Pelczer and hope to report on the results in the near future.

TORONTO, September 16, 2002 - Deliver analytical data via a standard web browser with new ACD/Web Librarian
Are you striving to deliver analytical data to multiple users inside or outside your enterprise? Try the ACD/Labs solution: ACD/Labs databases can be viewed and searched using a standard web browser interface via ACD/Web Librarian. Visit ACD/I-Lab to subscribe for a FREE trial. More...

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TORONTO, September 11, 2002 - ACD/Labs Announces 190,000 Downloads of ACD/ChemSketch Freeware
Advanced Chemistry Development is pleased to announce the 190,000th download of our leading chemical drawing software, ACD/ChemSketch. Our user-friendly software enables you to draw virtually any organic or inorganic chemical structure within the scope of your imagination. Download ChemSketch version 5.0 freeware today! New features available in the commercial version of ChemSketch 6.0 include: the Search for Structure command (allowing users to search for structures within documents on file systems) and the ability to draw polymers and Markush structures.
Are you an educator or student? ACD/Labs is proud to announce that we are donating campus-wide licenses of the commercial version of ACD/ChemSketch to all academic institutions. If your university, college, or high school does not have an easy-to-use chemical visualization tool readily available to all students, please contact ACD/Labs to see why ACD/ChemSketch truly is one of the leading chemical structure-drawing software packages on the market. See the list of schools who have taken advantage of this fabulous offer already.

TORONTO, September 3, 2002 - Validating the Value of ACD/HNMR Predictor in the Research Laboratory
Lee Griffiths and Jonathan D. Bright of AstraZeneca recently published an article in Magnetic Resonance In Chemistry which examined the value of Proton NMR prediction to speeding up the process of structure verification in an automated fashion. ACD/Labs' proton NMR prediction software was highlighted during the work. Read the article.

TORONTO, August 29, 2002 - ACD/Labs' Japanese Users' Meeting - Two Sessions
ACD/Labs is hosting two Japanese Users' Meetings in association with Fujitsu in Makuhari (Oct. 8th) and Osaka (Oct. 10th). Join us for an overview of what's new in version 6 of our NMR products. Click here for more information and to register.

TORONTO, August 9, 2002 - Register for ACD/Labs' SMASH Users' Meeting
ACD/Labs will be hosting a Users' Meeting in conjunction with SMASH on Sept. 15th at the Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, CO, USA. Join us for an overview of what's new in version 6 of our NMR products. Our NMR Product Manager will also lead a discussion regarding future developments and what enhancements you would like to see included in upcoming versions. Click here for more information and to register.

TORONTO, July 24, 2002 - 3rd Annual European Users' Meeting
ACD/Labs extends an invitation to you to join us in Obernai, France from Oct. 23-24 for our 3rd annual European Users' Meeting. Preview the planned Agenda for details about activities and how you can participate in our presentation and poster session. Join us for talks by ACD/Labs staff members as well as several invited guests, and don't forget about the traditional evening meal at La Cloche! Register early as seats are limited.