ACD/Labs News Archives

TORONTO, December 1999 - Advanced Chemistry Development continues to gain recognition from the public as a primary player in the marketplace of Chemistry Software. In the December Issue of Scientific Computing and Instrumentation Advanced Chemistry Development was recognized as a Technology Leader in two areas of Chemistry Software. The particular products acknowledged as leaders were ChemSketch, our free structure drawing software and SpecManager, our PC-based integrated software system for the processing and management of all forms of spectral data (NMR, MS, UV-Vis, IR and Raman).

ALBANY, NY, December 12th 1999 - Advanced Chemistry Development are happy to have had BOTH our website and our associated Reactive Reports Webzine recognized as Top 5% Chemistry Websites. We continue to strive to provide the ultimate in synergistic chemistry software tools as well as breaking news in the arena of Chemistry-related research and appreciate the recognition for our efforts!

TORONTO, December 6th 1999 - Advanced Chemistry Development is proud to announce our sponsorship of the World Chemistry website based at the Leipzig International School, Germany. World Chemistry is a superb collection of Java applets, VRML and molecular models, tutorials, and quizzes for general chemistry. We believe that World Chemistry will certainly be one of the most highly recognized and utilized sites for academia and we are delighted to be able to contribute our support.

TORONTO, November 1999 - General Chemistry Online recognizes Reactive Reports as one of their Web Picks for the month. General Chemistry Online is a Web site designed as a resource for general chemistry students and is the creation of Frostburg State University chemistry professor Fred Senese. The site has much to offer high school chemistry students who will appreciate the highly interactive nature of the information presented on the site. We are overjoyed to have Reactive Reports recognized as one of their web picks!

TORONTO, November 1999 - The Scout Report recognizes Reactive Reports
The Scout Report is the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Project. Published every Friday both on the web and by e-mail, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Their team of professional librarians and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate each resource. Published continuously since 1994, the Scout Report is one of the Internet's oldest and most respected publications.The Internet Scout Project is located in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. We are happy to have had Reactive Reports recognized by The Scout Report.

TORONTO, November 26th - Advanced Chemistry Development is proud to announce our sponsorship of the ANZMAG2000 NMR conference in Australia to be held in February of 2000. We are happy to provide our support to our colleagues down under and wish them all success at the meeting.

TORONTO, November 8th - Advanced Chemistry Development and Finveash Data Management Inc. announce collaboration.
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SAN DIEGO, CA, 19 October, 1999 - Molecular Simulations Inc. (MSI) and Advanced Chemistry Development announce tighter integration.

UNITED KINGDOM, 15 October, 1999 - Advanced Chemistry Development Implement SIMPLE web-based system at Pfizer's Analytical Research And Development Lab
Advanced Chemistry Development announce the implementation of SIMPLE, a system for Sample Information Management in a Process Laboratory Environment. This application has been developed for Pfizer's Analytical Research and Development Department in Sandwich, UK. This is a web-based system capable of tracking, scheduling and reporting of analytical data generated from and during the development process and builds upon the functionality developed for ACD/SLIMS. SLIMS is a full-featured sample manager allowing desktop access to sample information, chemical structures and analytical spectra (NMR, MS, IR, UV-Vis). Each aspect of the LIMS system is integrated to the appropriate helped application tool for textual reporting, molecular structure drawing and spectral processing and manipulation. For SIMPLE, the intention is to extend the functionality of the system to include the integration of automated system alongside the implementation of electronic notebook functionality. "This application has for the first time utilised the innovative strengths of web-based technology and three-tier architecture for management of analytical data in a pharmaceutical R&D laboratory" says Antony Williams, Chief Science Officer at Advanced Chemistry Development. "We have delivered a flexible architecture and foundation in this product for Analytical R&D at Pfizer Central Research and further developments will take place to provide additional functionality".

TORONTO, 13 October 1999, - Advanced Chemistry Development proudly announces that we have delivered over 30,000 copies of ChemSketch, our FREE structure drawing package to PC desktops around the world in 13 months. Mr. David Harper, a Graduate Research Assistant at Washington State University, is the fortunate 30,000th downloader and wins a copy of ChemFolder and a site licence of ChemSketch for Washington State University. Congratulations, Mr. Harper!  More...

TORONTO, 7 October, 1999. - David Bradley Science Writer and Advanced Chemistry Development are proud to announce the release of Reactive Reports, a new web-based Chemistry Magazine. Reactive Reports will provide the chemistry community with cutting edge reports of exciting developments in the world of the chemical sciences and related fields.

WESTBOROUGH, MA, 1 October, 1999 - Mantra Software Corporation and Advanced Chemistry Development announced today that they will create an interface between NuGenesis™ Scientific Data Management System (SDMS) archiving tools and Advanced Chemistry Development's spectroscopy and chromatography processing tools. More...

TORONTO, 15 September, 1999. - Advanced Chemistry Development has been active in the field of software development for systematic naming for about four years. Certainly, with our suite of IUPAC name and CAS Index name generation, as well as our latest offering for Name-to-Structure conversion, we offer the most complete and integrated suite of dealing with systematic naming. We have participated in conversations with CNOC, the Commission on Nomenclature of Organic chemistry, an Organic Chemistry Division of IUPAC, for the past three years. As a result of our contributions to this area of research we are proud to announce that Dr Andrey Erin, the Project Manager for our systematic naming software, has been elected as a Titular Member of CNOC. Andrey will actively assume this position on the board in January 2000.

TORONTO, 10 September, 1999. - FREE I-LAB predictions for Chemsketch users.
Advanced Chemistry Development has delivered over 25,000 copies of ChemSketch, our FREE structure drawing package to PC desktops around the world in 12 months. We are proud to announce that now you can upgrade FREE Chemsketch to access the I-Lab site so that you have instant on-line access to the ACD/Labs prediction modules. Download and install ACD/I-Lab Add-on for ChemSketch, draw your molecule in ChemSketch, click on the I-Lab button and your input molecule will be immediately sent to the Interactive Lab for any number of predictions: NMR spectra, logP and pK_a, IUPAC name generation, and so on. Hurry... this service is FREE OF CHARGE but only until December 31^th, 1999.

NEW ORLEANS, 22 August, 1999 - ChemWeb, Inc. and ACD/Labs announce they have reached agreement to create a novel link between ChemWeb.com and the Interactive Lab (ILab) at acdlabs.com. The link will allow ChemWeb.com members to access ACD/Labs' ILab and perform physical property predictions (some of which will be free of charge), to name compounds using systematic nomenclature (IUPAC and CAS Index rules), predict NMR Spectra and to search spectral databases. ACD/Labs customers will benefit from the vast wealth of information and services available on ChemWeb.com and ChemWeb.com members will benefit from having access to industry standard software and prediction engines at acdlabs.com. For more info see press release...

SWITZERLAND, 9 August 1999, - MDPI - Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) is an international nonprofit organization, and provides services for worldwide collection, deposit and exchange of chemical samples. AS part of their venture they publish online the journal Molecules, a journal of synthetic chemistry and natural product chemistry. Their aim is to encourage chemists to publish as much as possible their experimental detail, particularly synthetic procedures and characterization information. We are proud to announce that our ACD/Name software has been adopted as the systematic naming software of choice for the Molecules journal.

TORONTO, August 1999, - Advanced Chemistry Development is proud to be a co-sponsor of The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry (http://www.mdpi.org/ecsoc-3.htm section E) (September 1 - September 30). We are looking forward to a fruitful and exciting scientific exchange.

TORONTO, 1 August 1999, - Advanced Chemistry Development proudly announces our Scientific Scholar of the Year Award. In our venture to further support academia we now offer the opportunity to all scientific students to participate in our award system. In order to enter the competition we request that any student from the fields of Chemistry or BioChemistry send us a short report (maximum 5 pages) of a particular research study or lab work that they have been involved with in 1999. More...

TORONTO, July 1999, - Scientific Computing & Instrumentation 1999 Readers' Choice Awards We are very pleased to announce that our NEW ACD/MS Manager software has already been voted as a finalist in the results of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation's Eighth Annual Readers' Choice Awards. These awards are our opportunity to formally recognize their readers' favorite products in a variety of categories in the scientific and technical markets. Check out the details of ACD/MS Manager.

TORONTO, 26 July 1999, - ACD/Labs announces NEW Free Stuff Web Page - Here at Advanced Chemistry Development we are proud of the fact that our offer of free software to the chemical community has been welcomed and recently we celebrated over 23,000 downloads of our ChemSketch drawing software. We have continued to expand our list of downloads to include spectroscopy viewers and databases. We have just unveiled a new web site to allow more intuitive access to these modules and have upgraded the site to include: Updates of software to Version 4.0, demo movies and presentations, spectroscopic databases, new ChemBasic goodies and, by popular request all User's Guides are now available as PDF files. We are always looking for customer feedback to help improve our website so feel free to contact us at the Expanding Universe of Advanced Chemistry Development with your comments (info@acdlabs.com)

ROCHESTER, NY. July 1999, - Walkup analytical laboratories have become a crucial component of chemical and pharmaceutical analytical support during the past few years. These laboratories offer organic synthetic chemists access to automated NMR, MS, LC and other analytical techniques. These technologies generally produce a printout of the results for the chemist to analyze but the delivery of the data to the desktop for further processing has been the vision for many companies. The Eastman Kodak company has been one of the companies at the forefront of developing walk-up technologies and delivering data to the desktop. Advanced Chemistry Development is proud to announce the installation of our desktop processing tools for NMR, MS and LC, with fully integrated structure drawing, at the Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) to support the need for Windows NT-based desktop applications to help further enable this vision.