Wolters Kluwer Health adds chemical structure searching to its array of pharmaceutical intelligence tools: partnership melds structure-drawing power of ChemDraw to pipeline database
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of drug and medical information services and content to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, has announced a partnership with CambridgeSoft to market chemical structure search tools for drug discovery scientists and pharmaceutical chemists.
At the 2005 annual meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the companies demonstrated their first joint product, a software module that allows scientists to use ChemDraw, the leading chemical-drawing software, to search by chemical structure for all of the compounds in the existing Adis R+D Insight database.
Marketed by Wolters Kluwer Health, Adis R+D Insight is the industry's most authoritative pipeline intelligence tool that features a database of more than 20,000 compounds.
CambridgeSoft's technology converts chemical compound names into their associated chemical structures and makes them immediately searchable.
Using the new module, drug discovery scientists can query the vast, text-based Adis R+D Insight database using their own language.
The resulting benefit is that users can evaluate a structure in the context of related compounds.
"Using our new structure searching module, scientists can check to see if a target molecule is already in development or if it's near clinical trials," said John Monahan, president and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health, Pharma Solutions.
"By harnessing the power of ChemDraw and Adis R+D Insight, we've made it easier for scientists to identify a potentially competitive compound earlier in the development process".
"CambridgeSoft is pleased to be partnering with Wolters Kluwer Health," said Michael Tomasic, chairman and CEO of CambridgeSoft.
"Combining content provided by Wolters Kluwer Health with the leading chemical structure search technology, including ChemOffice and ChemDraw, from CambridgeSoft enhances the ability of the scientific community to search, analyze, and make decisions relevant to the direction of the research."
