SHANGHAI; BOSTON, Mass. – LabNetwork, WuXi AppTec’s global chemistry ecommerce platform company, today announced a new collaboration with Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.

LabNetwork’s nearly four million commercially available discovery and research compounds will now be directly available to users of Reaxys, Elsevier’s premier chemistry database. The enhanced functionality means chemical companies and researchers, while using Reaxys, will also have access to both LabNetwork product availability and price information as a standard feature. The implementation deepens WuXi’s integration with chemists’ research and discovery workflows and expands exposure to WuXi ecommerce through LabNetwork.

Through the integration chemical companies and researchers can now enjoy product quality assurance that is guaranteed by WuXi, greater transparency over supply chains, and lower costs for a range of vital compounds on Reaxys. Researchers will also reap the advantages of a wider selection as LabNetwork sources compounds from more than 2,000 suppliers across the globe. Finally, the integration means that researchers will be able to easily compare the cost of buying a compound versus making it internally, allowing them to save time, accelerate research and better allocate budget resources.