ChemACX is a database of available chemicals that provides a unified, up-to-date, structure-searchable source of chemicals from over 500 suppliers worldwide. The ChemACX database aids in streamlining chemical procurement workflows and provides accurate supplier information, including pack size, purity and price. This release adds 13 new suppliers to ChemACX, including the widely requested VWR International catalogs.

This latest version of ChemACX contains:

• 497,439 unique molecules
• 21,248 new unique molecules
• 1,536,552 products
• 340,596 new products
• 526 vendors.
• 13 new vendors

ChemACX 9.9 is available on the Internet, as an MS Access database, or as an SDfile of structures. ChemACX can also be integrated with CambridgeSoft’s Inventory and E-Notebook applications. We are planning quarterly updates to ChemACX during 2009 and beyond, and the Q1 2009 update will be delivered in March 2009.

Read the full ChemACX 9.9 update article
or View a ChemBioClip demonstrating ChemACX within Inventory

This review of CambridgeSoft's Inventory Enterprise system is by Elsevier's John O'Brien. Elsevier runs an integrated application of CambridgeSoft's Inventory and E-Notebook.

The need for in-depth chemical safety information in the daily work of both bench chemists and environmental health and safety officers within pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing firms is well known. MSDS’s are omnipresent, as required by OSHA regulations. Yet often MSDS’s just don’t cut it; more in-depth information is necessary. That is when one would traditionally turn to a print book such as Bretherick’s Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards. Yet print editions of reference materials have their own limitations; they are limited to one user at a time, and looking up information can be cumbersome.

The integration of Bretherick’s reactive hazard information into CambridgeSoft’s Inventory management software would pre-populate EHS information for over 5,000 heavily used industrial chemicals in Inventory’s EHS tab. Such information would make reporting a snap, as well as provide valuable information as to possible risks of chemicals stored in the same lab.

Elsevier’s chemical safety information would enable synthetic chemists and EH&S officers to help themselves and their organizations avoid chemical accidents. By providing access to this information through the CambridgeSoft tools which they use everyday, CambridgeSoft and Elsevier feel confident that they can provide significant mission critical information at the point in scientists workflows when they need it most.

Read the full Inventory article
or View an Introductory Inventory webinar

CambridgeSoft now offers free one-month trials of Cresset BioMolecular Discovery's Fields-based tools.

Cresset’s family of Fields-based tools provide you with a powerful new insight into the biological activity of your chemical compounds. Fields model the surface properties and shape of a compound (which determine its interaction with a target protein), and allow much more detailed analysis of how chemical structure relates to biological activity, whether or not you have a structure for your target.

FieldAlign™ enables you to align molecules based on their field properties rapidly and in a biologically relevant conformation. FieldAlign overlays compounds against a 3D template that is provided by the user. You can create templates with FieldTemplater™ or use a ligand extracted from the active site of a protein, docking or pharmacophore studies.

FieldTemplater™ generates hypotheses for the bioactive conformation of ligands from a set of 2D active chemical structures. The program not only suggests the bioactive conformation of the molecules, but also the relative alignment of the different molecules in the binding site. FieldTemplater has been successfully used in drug discovery programs against a wide range of targets, including projects focusing on targets without 3D structural information. The easy to use graphical user interface enables models to be built rapidly, bringing together structures from the literature or in-house molecules to explain why different chemotypes may bind to the same target, and to understand how the synthetic plans can be refined.

Details about Cresset FieldAlign & a 1-month trial
or Details about Cresset FieldTemplater & a 1-month trial

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

What better way to say "Happy Valentine's Day" than with a SciCard? SciCards are chemically- and biologically-based Valentine's Day cards that you send online.

Our collection of Valentine's Day SciCards brings that special chemistry to the holiday. Each one features a Valentine-oriented scene with an associated molecule, such as:

• Chocolate molecules on a box of chocolates
• Pheromone molecules on candy hearts
• Epinephrine molecules on a human heart

And more molecules that provide the biochemical basis for love and SciCards! All fun, all free, all drawn with ChemDraw & Chem3D.

Check out our collection of SciCards at the SciStore

Feb. 10^th Training: ChemDraw Basic

Feb. 10^th Training: ChemBioViz — Administration and Configuration

Feb. 11^th Webinar: Using E-Notebook in the Classroom

Feb. 11^th Training: Chem3D Basic

Feb. 11^th Training: Managing Materials with Inventory Enterprise

Feb. 18^th Webinar: How Do I Decide?

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

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