CAS and ACD/Labs Collaborate to Provide Predictive Insights to Scientists

The decades-long collaboration will now deliver searchable reference data from the most current versions of NMR predictors and physicochemical property predictors with the addition of predicted ADME and toxicity data.

Toronto, CANADA ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of R&D, today announced a new multi-year collaboration with CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, to aggregate additional predictive property data from ACD/Labs predictive tools into the CAS Content Collection™.

CAS and ACD/Labs are long-time collaborators serving scientists in R&D. More than twenty years ago, CAS and ACD/Labs announced their first collaboration, introducing industry-standard physicochemical and molecular property data to the CAS Content Collection, delivered to scientists through CAS solutions including STN® and SciFinder®.  In 2008, predicted NMR data from multiple nuclei (1H, 13C, 15N, 19F, 31P), used widely in research for structure elucidation and verification, was added.

This new collaboration enables CAS to significantly expand the searchable reference data that will now be available to scientists through CAS solutions, including the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform and the STN IP Protection Suite. The most recent version of NMR prediction algorithms delivers larger experimental training sets and increased prediction accuracy and reliability, ensuring scientists are using the highest quality data available to make their decisions. CAS is also enhancing its physicochemical property prediction algorithms—for logD, logP, pKa, aqueous solubility, and more—to ACD/Labs most recent Percepta release with expanded training sets. In addition to these fundamental properties, CAS is expanding ADMET information in its offerings. Used widely across pharmaceutical, environmental, and other areas of research, the full range of physicochemical, ADME, and toxicity data will be invaluable to researchers. CAS’s investment in the newest predictive technologies from ACD/Labs will also ensure enhanced performance across their extensive libraries.

“At ACD/Labs we share CAS’s vision of facilitating innovation by providing scientists with high quality data. We’re continually expanding the training sets of our predictive algorithms to provide reliable predictions to support scientists from initial scientific conceptualization ‘what should I make next?’, through each iterative round of the design-make-test-analyze cycle”, said Andrew Anderson, VP Innovation & Informatics Strategy, ACD/Labs. “This recent upgrade further solidifies a continuity for more productive and innovative scientific experimentation.”

“Pinpointing insights that inspire scientists to accelerate discoveries is at the heart of our strategy to continuously improve the sophistication of our solutions and expand our reach across increasingly interconnected scientific domains,” said Dr. Gilles Georges, CAS Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President for Content Operations. “High-quality, accurate scientific information is the foundation on which our customers accelerate innovation.”

About ACD/Labs

ACD/Labs is a leading provider of scientific software for R&D. We help customers in >94 countries around the world assemble digitized analytical, structural, and molecular information for effective decision-making, problem solving, and product lifecycle control. Our enterprise technologies enable automation of molecular characterization and facilitate chemically intelligent knowledge management.

ACD/Labs provides worldwide sales and support and brings decades of experience and success helping organizations innovate and create efficiencies in their workflows. For more information, please visit www.acdlabs.com. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About CAS

CAS is a leader in scientific information solutions, partnering with innovators around the world to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. CAS employs over 1,400 experts who curate, connect, and analyze scientific knowledge to reveal unseen connections. For over 100 years, scientists, patent professionals, and business leaders have relied on CAS solutions and expertise to provide the hindsight, insight, and foresight they need so they can build upon the learnings of the past to discover a better future. CAS is a division of the American Chemical Society. Connect with us at cas.org.

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