Partnership to benefit drug discovery research by creating integrated laboratory informatics solutions
Tripos, a provider of drug discovery chemistry and informatics products and services, and CambridgeSoft, a provider of desktop and enterprise-class software for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, announced that that they have formed an alliance to ensure compatibility between Tripos's Benchware suite of laboratory informatics products and the latest versions of the ChemOffice application suite, including the ChemDraw chemical sketching tool.
News of the partnership follows Tripos's recent launch of Benchware, a portfolio of laboratory informatics applications designed to support chemical synthesis and testing decisions, to digitally store, search and retrieve research information, and to share experimental results with project team members, including computational scientists.
Through the alliance, CambridgeSoft will provide Tripos with support and development licenses of its ChemOffice suite, enabling the companies to ensure interoperability of ChemOffice applications with key Benchware products.
"As we expand our software portfolio into the laboratory, many of our Benchware customers are also using innovative products from CambridgeSoft, including industry-leading tools such as ChemDraw," said David Lowis, senior director of product management at Tripos.
"This alliance benefits our joint customers by ensuring seamless interoperability between our respective laboratory informatics products." CambridgeSoft joins the Tripos alliance programme as a software and content partner.
ChemDraw will be featured by Tripos as a preferred chemical rendering tool for Benchware.
"We are pleased to be working together with Tripos to provide more comprehensive solutions to our enterprise and desktop customers," said Michael Tomasic, chairman and CEO of CambridgeSoft.
"With this agreement, we are ensuring that our customers benefit by being able to integrate the CambridgeSoft tools of their choice into existing Benchware-supported workflows."
