Our annual European CambridgeSoft Conference and User Meeting will take place on March 9^th-10^th in London, U.K. Included are training sessions in Inventory, E-Notebook, and ChemBioViz. Click below if you'd like to attend in London, or contact Ron Wagner, our training director, at rwagner@cambridgesoft.com to schedule an on-site training session at your company.

On-site, instructor-led training is one of the best ways for companies to realize the full potential of their investments in technology. Given the current state of business practices, the tight employment market in technology, and the rapid pace of technology change, many pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical companies are unable to devote internal staff to training personnel on the use of new equipment or software tools.

The 4 C’s of On-site Training Services:

• Convenience: delivered to your team, at your location, on your schedule.
• Consistency: The entire team gets one training experience on one platform - so that all team members are on the same page at the end of the training.
• Customization: On-site instructor lead training can be customized to meet customer defined requirements and to use their specific workflow on their own systems.
• Cost: Eliminates travel time and expenses for your employees.; and also decreases employee downtime and improves their productivity.

There are also new training methods and media available today that, when combined with on-site instructor lead training can create an even more effective an enriching learning experience. This combination of standard instructor lead training with other media and events is called Blended Learning.

Blended learning means that traditional instructor lead training is supplemented with other electronic formats. The goal of blended learning is to combine various training media into an integrated mix – one that can be tailored to the needs of each training program and customer.

Read the full article on On-Site Training Services

ChemFinder users have always been able to store, search and move data around. The latest versions of ChemBioViz and ChemFinder 11.0 bring new ways to work with data. Users can now visualize it, analyze it, plot it and program with it.

ChemFinder / BioViz features include:

• Importing SD files
• Basic searching and reporting
• Security Considerations
• Building a ChemBioViz form
• Scripting Features
• Intelligent forms with scripting

ChemFinder is a database management system for anyone who works with chemical information. It provides a place to store chemical structures, physical properties, notes, tables of data, and charts based on that data. With ChemFinder, you can search through data efficiently and quickly, and you can organize the data instantly.

BioViz allows you to create plots from ChemFinder databases with just a few clicks of the mouse. It also allows for easier access to information individual data points as well as more advanced filtering capabilities and statistical analysis.

ChemFinder / BioViz Ultra 11.0 provides a tightly integrated visualization suite, allowing users to visualize and analyze their structures and data graphically, and identify trends and correlations within subsets of data. Users can retrieve or search for a set of compounds, choose the data they want to see, whether it is biological test results, physical property values calculated automatically or prices in a catalog, and ChemBioViz will generate an interactive window showing a scatterplot, histogram, or other useful data graphic.

View an introductory webinar about ChemFinder/BioViz
or Register for upcoming webinar on ChemFinder advanced searching

Chemistry has deep roots as an experimental, lab-based science. As experiments yielded information, chemistry has also developed into an information-based science. Today, computer-based chemical information plays a key role in supplementing, guiding, and helping to interpret laboratory work.

CambridgeSoft, as a leader in chemistry software, began offering chemical information services with its early Internet presence, ChemFinder.Com. ChemFinder.Com went on to become one of the busiest sites of value for its substance data and its links to Internet information sources.

This article looks at CambridgeSoft's much expanded database offerings in three important subject areas.

• Pharmacological and Reference Information
• Look up important reference information, explore the world of biologically active compounds, validate in-silico screens, and mine unique natural products databases.
• Chemical Sourcing and Safety Information
• Save time and money by using ChemACX to find, evaluate, and purchase research chemicals. Take advantage of ChemMSDX and the Sigma-Aldrich MSDS collection to stay informed on important safety information.
• Synthetic Methodology Information
• Find literature references for chemical reactions. Search by starting material, product, or complete reaction transformation to develop plans for new experiments.

Read the full article summarizing available chemical databases
or View a webinar on databases

CambridgeSoft is pleased to newly offer the latest versions of two Textco bioinformatics products: Gene Inspector and Gene Construction Kit.

A Molecular Biologist's Laboratory Assistant

• Gene Inspector^® (GI) combines a powerful sequence analysis package with a versatile electronic research notebook for molecular biologists. GI offers more than 40 built-in nucleic acid and protein analyses, a sophisticated multiple sequence editor, and an analysis panel interface that takes the guesswork out of defining analysis parameters. Exclusive to GI, researchers can "define and save" suites of analyses, and can choose a name for the suite that everyone in the group will recognize. This unique feature provides an elegant way for everyone in a research group to be able to compare their results in a meaningful and consistent way.

The Premier Desktop Cloning Software

• The Gene Construction Kit^® (GCK) software allows easy manipulation of DNA, either graphically or as sequence text and brings intuitive productivity to the molecular biologist. GCK eliminates tedious examination of sequence data by automatically identifying open reading frames (ORF's), keeping track of sticky ends during cutting and pasting of restriction enzyme digestion fragments, and enabling comprehensive annotation of sequence features.

Click here for details about Textco's Gene Inspector

We are in search of reviewers to put CambridgeSoft products to the test. Of particular interest to us are comments on our newest release of ChemBioFinder, BioOffice, BioDraw, BioAssay, BioViz, Inventory, E-Notebook, and ChemACX. If you are up to the challenge, please contact our reviews department at reviews@cambridgesoft.com. Approved applicants will be eligible to receive free software in order to write the review. In addition, you will receive a free t-shirt if your story appears online or in print.

Apply by email to reviews@cambridgesoft.com

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Instructions:

The following nine elements appear nine times each in the grid above:

Al Am C I In La Os Te Y         

Each element appears once in each of the nine rows, once in each of the nine columns, and once in each of the 3x3 boxes outlined with a heavy border.

HINT:The top row spells out a class of medicinal compounds, which is displayed in the ChemDraw generic structure shown below.

You cannot solve this puzzle unambiguously without figuring out that word!

First to send correct answer to Jesse Gordon: editor@chemoku.com (please use subject line “Chemoku #37 Answer”) earns a CambridgeSoft T-shirt! 

The answer will appear online at www.ChemStore.com/sudoku along with hints about solving techniques. You can find downloadable fill-in-the-blank versions there now.

March 9^th: CambridgeSoft Conference and User Meeting in London

March 18^th: Advanced Searching in ChemFinder & ChemOffice

Please click here for list of other upcoming events