ACD/Labs News Archives

TORONTO, June 25, 2004 - ACD/Labs Discontinues Shipment of Free Naming DLLs for MDL ISIS
ACD/Labs announces that the shipment of FREE Naming DLLs for MDL ISIS ® will not be a part of our Version 8 release of software. This action is taken as a result of user expectations that such DLLs will be supported and maintained as a result of being a part of the software shipment, which is covered under maintenance. These FREE DLLs were originally produced 4 years ago and are not eligible for maintenance. Users can still download the freeware DLLs from http://www.acdlabs.com/download/nameisis.html and deploy under the freeware license agreement.

TORONTO, June 8, 2004 - ACD/Labs Version 8.0 Software is Shipping!
ACD/Labs version 8.0 software has been officially released. We encourage you to review What's New in Version 8.0 to learn more about our latest advances and innovations. If you wish to upgrade your present software and are not under maintenance please contact sales@acdlabs.com.

TORONTO, June 4, 2004 - ACD/Labs Welcomes a new Enterprise Solutions Product Manager
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce the addition of Eric Milgram, Ph.D., as our new Enterprise Solutions Product Manager. Prior to joining ACD/Labs, Eric worked for Pfizer at the La Jolla, California, site where, in addition to serving as team leader of the HTS ADMET Bioanalytical group, he was heavily involved with designing, building, and deploying numerous productivity enhancing software applications. These applications spanned the gamut from standalone packages, like those used for determining drug-drug interactions or metabolic stability of new chemical entities, to full-scale enterprise systems for use by multiple departments, such as medicinal and combinatorial chemistry, drug metabolism, materials management, and drug safety. Prior to Pfizer, Eric worked for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. While there, in addition to developing sample preparation and LC/MS/MS methods for detection of trace levels of environmental toxicants in human urine, serum, and plasma, he also developed software for unattended optimization of MS/MS parameters and facile data processing and analysis of the resulting analytical data. Eric earned his Ph.D. at the University of Florida designing and building software and hardware for applications with Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry.

TORONTO, May 31, 2004 - ACD/Labs Celebrates 10^th Anniversary with a New Web Site Design
In connection with the commercial release of ACD/Labs version 8.0, and our 10^th anniversary celebration, we are pleased to launch an exciting web site redesign that brings a fresh new look and improved navigation to the rich content provided at acdlabs.com. More...
 

TORONTO, May 5, 2004 - Eisai Research Institute Implements ACD/Labs' Processors throughout Discovery Research Facility
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) today announced that Eisai Research Institute (ERI) has chosen ACD/Labs' software to perform advanced spectral and chromatographic processing on their complex synthetic and organic chemical compounds. More...
 

TORONTO, April 30, 2004 - ASMS Seminar in Nashville, TN on May 23, 2004
ACD/Labs invites you to join us for our Seminar during the ASMS 2004 conference in Nashville, TN, on Sunday, May 23^rd. This seminar will entail a variety of presentations from our Mass Spec and Chromatography experts, as well as from invited guest speaker Dr. Kevin Owens from Drexel University. Presentation topics include "Extracting Information from Mass Spectral Data Using Correlation Analysis", "Meeting the Challenges of Information Overload in Data and Information Handling", and "New Developments in Mass Spectrometry Processing and Fragmentation Prediction", among others. It will be of particular interest for MS specialists working in the areas of organic impurities and metabolite identification. View the agenda and register today!
 

ASILOMAR, CA, April 18, 2004 - ACD/Labs Provides Enhanced Support for Structure Elucidation by NMR with the Release of Version 8.0
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) announces the version 8.0 release of ACD/Structure Elucidator, which through a significantly enhanced user interface, makes it possible to quickly and easily transform experimental spectra of unknown compounds into plausible chemical structures fit for expert evaluation. More...
 

ASILOMAR, CA, April 18, 2004 - ACD/Labs Raises the Standard for NMR Prediction Accuracy with the Release of Version 8.0
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) improves the prediction accuracy of their industry leading ¹H and ¹³C NMR prediction software with the release of version 8.0. More...
 

SWITZERLAND, March, 2004 - Advanced Chemistry Development and Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta
- Advanced Chemistry Development and Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta (VHCA), publishers of Helvetica Chimica Acta and Chemistry & Biodiversity, announce that ACD/Name products have been adopted as the naming standard for use in all journals and books. Close examination of the available systematic naming products on the market demonstrated that ACD/Labs is the undisputed leader, providing the highest quality and accuracy, for the automated generation of systematic names. These systematic naming products will be used for both the flagship traditional chemistry journal Helvetica Chimica Acta and for the new journal Chemistry & Biodiversity, as well as for the books published by VHCA. More...
 

TORONTO, March 31, 2004 - ACD/Labs Provides Online Access to the EPA DSSTox databases
The EPA has recently announced their Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) Database Network which provides a community forum for publishing standard format, structure-annotated chemical toxicity data files for open public access. ACD/Labs has enhanced these files by using our PhysChem predictors and systematic naming software to add these parameters to the databases. These enhanced databases are available as ACD/ChemFolder databases from our downloads page. These databases have also been made available online using ACD/Labs Web Librarian technology. For online access use the links listed at Samples & databases page for Web Librarian.
 

TORONTO, March 29, 2004 - ACD/Labs Provides Superior Inorganic Structure and Polymer Support with the Release of Version 8.0
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) announces the release of ACD/ChemSketch version 8.0, which through the addition of new bond types and molecular classes, extends its capabilities to provide chemically-intelligent support of inorganics and polymers. More...
 

TORONTO, March 29, 2004 - ACD/Labs Provides Sophisticated Chemical Data Management with ACD/ChemFolder Version 8.0
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs), announces the version 8.0 release of ACD/ChemFolder, providing enhanced searching, retrieving, and reporting capabilities that make it easier than ever to effectively manage multitudes of chemical data from various instruments and analytical devices. More...
 

TORONTO, March 24, 2004 - ACD/Labs Welcomes a New Product Manager
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is happy to announce the addition of Michael Boruta, B.Sc., as our new Product Manager who will be developing the capabilities and applications of our UV-IR Manager and Curve Manager products. Michael brings over 25 years of experience in Infrared spectroscopy and the development of software applications to support IR. He joins ACD/Labs after a sabbatical period before which he was at Bio-Rad for over two decades. During this period he achieved the position of Senior Staff Scientist having previously held the position of Spectroscopy Lab Manager. Michael was responsible for the creation of both the concept and the knowledge base for Sadtler's IR Mentor software. Michael received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture.
 

TORONTO, March 22, 2004 - Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., Announces New Academic Site Licensing Program
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) today announced a new strategy for academic pricing that will enable educational institutions worldwide to provide faculty and students alike with industry-standard chemistry software at affordable academic prices.
Under the new pricing model, academic institutions will be able to purchase discounted annual site licenses of the commercial ACD/ChemSketch and ACD/ChemFolder software modules, granting faculty-wide access to our top-of-the-line chemical structure drawing and databasing tools. Annual site license pricing will be based on the size of the academic institution, making a site license an affordable option for even the smallest establishment.
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TORONTO, March 8, 2004 - ACD/Labs Announces Version 8.0 at Pittcon®
ACD/Labs is excited to announce the impending release of our version 8.0 software. Learn about the new features and capabilities and join us from March 8-11 at booth # 963 to explore them first-hand, including demonstrations of our new product ACD/Workflow Manager which now allows sample management and workflow integration with ACD/SpecManager and ACD/Web Librarian.
ACD/Labs' Press Releases for v.8.0
 

TORONTO, March 1, 2004 - Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., Designs an Automated Approach to Analytical Data Management
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) announces the release of ACD/Automation Server, a utility that provides automated data collection, processing, and database population throughout the enterprise using ACD/Labs tools and user-written programs. More...
 

TORONTO, February 12, 2004 - ACD/Labs Tightens the Coupling Between Measurement and Prediction with the Release of ACD/PhysChem Version 8.0
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) tightens the coupling between measurement and prediction with the release of ACD/PhysChem, version 8.0. Providing the industry's most accurate prediction algorithms for logP, pK_a, aqueous solubility, and other physicochemical properties, version 8.0 of ACD/PhysChem software contains unsurpassed capabilities for tuning predictions with experimental data. These advances ensure that medicinal chemists can base their molecular design decisions on accurately predicted properties within novel proprietary classes of compounds. Specialists in the measurement lab also benefit from these advances because they identify which subset of compounds need to be measured. More...
 

TORONTO, February 12, 2004 - ACD/Labs Improves the Support of Virtual Screening with Increased Speed of Calculation in Version 8.0
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) extends the application of its industry standard PhysChem prediction software by significantly increasing the speed of property calculation in version 8.0. More...
 

TORONTO, February 5, 2004 - ACD/Labs Provides Leading Solutions for Property Based Drug Design with ACD/MedChem Advisor
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) introduces a novel approach to property-based drug design using the suite of tools packaged within the newly released ACD/MedChem Advisor. Building on their industry-leading physicochemical property prediction tools, ACD/Labs now presents medicinal chemists with a complete design studio to help them rapidly identify and assess which chemically relevant structural modifications will aid in the optimization of a lead compound's molecular physical properties. More...
 

300,000!!!

TORONTO, January 22, 2004 - Announcing 300,000 Downloads of Freeware ChemSketch
Only six months since our last announcement and downloads of our popular freeware structure drawing software have achieved another impressive milestone. On January 20th, the 300,000th copy of ACD/ChemSketch version 5 freeware was downloaded from our web site. This signals a continuation of the daily average of 300 downloads and supports ACD/ChemSketch as one of the premier molecular structure drawing software packages available today. More...
 

TORONTO, January 12, 2004 - Systematic Naming Tools Deployed throughout Incyte via ACD/I-Lab: Intranet Edition
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) has successfully deployed their systematic naming tools throughout Incyte Corporation via their Interactive Laboratory tool, ACD/I-Lab. Medicinal chemists at Incyte will access the I-Lab tools from within the Synthematix® Arthur™ Suite reaction planning system, which through an ongoing agreement between ACD/Labs and Synthematix, Inc., enables direct access to selected market-leading ACD/Labs solutions from within the Arthur environment. More...