ACD/Labs News Archives

GERMANY, June 1999, - Advanced Chemistry Development and Thieme Chemistry, Publishers of Houben-Weyl, Science of Synthesis, Synlett and Synthesis, announce that ACD/Name products have been adopted as the naming standard for the reference works and the journals. Close examination of the available systematic naming products on the market demonstrated that Advanced Chemistry Development tools showed the highest quality and accuracy in generating systematic names. These systematic naming products will be used for the Science of Synthesis series which is an expert guidance tool providing selective, reliable, quality solutions to synthesis problems.
Science of Synthesis is designed to stimulate new discoveries and the development of new methodologies in both industry and academia by providing an understanding of the whole field of synthesis to date. Science of Synthesis will be a flexible user-friendly system, allowing full text, substructure, exact structure and reaction searches with an easy to use interface. Science of Synthesis will be an expert guidance tool giving selective, reliable and high quality solutions to your synthesis problems. A recent review of our ACD/Name was published in the Synthesis journal.

TORONTO, 16 June 1999, - Advanced Chemistry Development proudly announces that we have delivered over 20,000 copies of ChemSketch, our FREE structure drawing package to PC desktops around the world in 6 months. The 20,000th lucky downloader, Dr. Andrew Eaton from Micromass UK Ltd., United Kingdom, will receive a free copy of our commercial software package, ChemFolder, the databasing package directly integrated with ChemSketch. Congratulations, Dr. Eaton!
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TORONTO, 1 June 1999 - Sirius Analytical Instruments Ltd (Sirius), designer and manufacturer of innovative instruments for analytical chemistry announces their collaboration with Advanced Chemistry Development. Under an agreement with Sirius Analyticals, ACD Inc. is preparing a special version of our Spectral/Chromatographic databasing software to allow databasing of curves associated with the data generated by the Sirius GLpKa instrument. This measurement is used to measure the physicochemical parameters pK_a and logP, which are used in pharmaceutical drug design and development. Click here for more info.

TORONTO, May 1999 - ACD/NMR Predictors Competitive Analysis - During the history of the development of the Advanced Chemistry Development NMR prediction tools we have compiled and checked data from thousands of literature articles to build databases of over 1 million chemical shifts from over 150,000 structures. With these as assignments and structures as a basis and using correlation algorithms developed over the past eight years, it should be obvious that our fragment based predictions will offer superior performance to any rules-based systems. Fragment-based prediction offers the opportunity to cover wide ranges of structural diversity not available to rules-based systems. It is this type of performance that has enabled Advanced Chemistry Development to become the industry leader in NMR prediction today. Rigorous testing of our capabilities relative to other software packages has resulted in our software becoming the package of choice on a worldwide level for companies such as Pfizer, Astra and Glaxo-Wellcome. There have been previous reports of our capabilities relative to other software packages performing NMR prediction today. We report here our competitive analysis of results with version 4.0 of our software with Cambridgesoft ChemNMR.

BRAZIL, April 99 - Advanced Chemistry Development were happy to be a patron of the 7th Brazilian NMR meeting. The NMR Users Association of Brazil (AUREMN) held the meeting at Angra dos Reis. We were happy to support a wonderfully exciting NMR community and note that our software is well known and noted on a number of the poster presentations. The talk which Tony Williams of our company presented at this meeting is posted here.

JAPAN, 8 Apr 99 - TUDOGS (The Ultimate Directory Of Gratis Software) awards the highest award of 5 dogs to ACD/ChemSketch 3.5 freeware.

TORONTO - April 99 - Advanced Chemistry Development is proud to announce another step to provide integration of our state of the art physical property, systematic naming and spectral prediction tools with alternative structure drawing packages. Previously we unveiled the integration of our prediction tools with MDL/ISIS . Now we announce the connection of our tools to Cambridgesoft's ChemDraw. More...

TORONTO - April 99 - With the recent announcement of Millennium³², Waters has positioned itself as the premier manufacturer of HPLC systems with state-of-the-art data processing and management software tools. Advanced Chemistry Development is proud to be announce that Waters has rated our ChromManager software as Millennium Compatible thereby offering Waters customers the opportunity to take advantage of our structure handling and databasing capabilities.

TORONTO - March 23, 1999 - Advanced Chemistry Development Inc and GlaxoWellcome have reached an agreement which provides GlaxoWellcome with the use of Advanced Chemistry's experimental data processing and management and software. More...

TORONTO - March 1, 1999 - Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs) announced that Pfizer, Inc. and ACD/Labs have signed a five-year agreement that will provide Pfizer with unlimited, worldwide use of ACD/Labs Software. More...