3rd Oct 2006 13:00
Elsevier MDL, the market leader in discovery informatics andworkflow integration for the life sciences and chemical industries,announces the release of a substantially enhanced version of MDL(R)Notebook, its state-of-the-art electronic laboratory notebook (ELN).Built on the MDL(R) Isentris(R) system, MDL Notebook supports a broadrange of chemistry experiments from the single-step synthesis ofdiscrete molecules to multi-step synthesis and complex parallelchemistry experiments. £ "Efficient data capture and integration are increasingly criticalin the research and development of new chemical entities," said Dr.Trevor Heritage, senior vice president and chief scientific officer atElsevier MDL. "By enabling scientists to build searchable experimentalrepositories quickly and easily, and share information in astraightforward manner, the latest release of MDL Notebook letsscientists work smarter, not harder, in an advanced e-R&D environment.It is a major step in the development of an ELN optimized forchemistry workflows in the short term that will ultimately be suitablefor biologists too." £ MDL Notebook integrates smoothly with the critical laboratorysystems, workflow applications and content sources chemists use everyday, including the MDL(R) Available Chemicals Directory sourcingdatabase, the MDL(R) Logistics reagent management system, the newMDL(R) Registration system for creating corporate compound registriesand the DiscoveryGate(R) content platform. £ Integration with DiscoveryGate (www.discoverygate.com) enablesresearchers to access key data sources for investigating the synthesisand properties of target substances, including the MDL syntheticmethodology and bioactivity databases, the essential Beilsteinchemistry reference and valuable EH&S information from Elsevier MDLOHS. £ With over 25 years of experience building large, electronicallysearchable reaction databases and 14 years of experience developingpioneering ELNs, Elsevier MDL has built an advanced Notebook systemthat uses the industry-leading MDL(R) Direct chemistry platform. MDLDirect (data cartridge technology) is the only chemistry search engineto combine full reaction transformation searching, unsurpassedchemistry sophistication and proven performance on databases with overfive million reactions and at least 20 million molecules. £ MDL Notebook builds a true reaction database from experiments,provides a powerful reaction-based enumerator for parallel chemistryand supports the full range of industry-leading MDL chemicalrepresentation and search features, including enhanced stereochemicalrepresentation. £ The enhanced user interface is as easy to use as the familiarpaper notebook while offering all the advantages of electronic datacapture -- including faster, more efficient searching, improvedknowledge management, easier collaboration and enhanced productivity.The flexible, template-based approach to entering experimentalprocedures and data supports routine synthesis activities such asstoichiometry calculations and reaction drawing (with support forMDL(R) Draw and CambridgeSoft's ChemDraw(R) software). Automaticprotocol generation with built-in AutoText capability saves time,reduces the amount of typing required to capture data and producesstandardized experimental reports that are easy to format and sharewith colleagues. A helpful experiment navigator function acceleratesworkflows by enabling researchers to quickly locate previously run orfrequently used experiments. £ MDL Notebook is part of a growing, new generation of MDL workflowtools available to researchers today. For more information, visitwww.mdl.com. £ About Elsevier MDL £ Elsevier MDL provides informatics, database and workflow solutionsthat accelerate successful life sciences R&D by improving the speedand quality of scientists' decision making. Researchers around theworld depend on Elsevier MDL for innovative and reliable discoveryinformatics software solutions and services augmented by 400 Elsevierchemistry and life sciences journals and related products. For moreinformation, visit www.mdl.com. Elsevier is a world-leading publisherof scientific, technical and medical information products andservices. For more information, visit www.elsevier.com. Elsevier ispart of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher andinformation provider. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (EuronextAmsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York StockExchange). For more information, visit www.reedelsevier.com. £ MDL, Isentris and DiscoveryGate are registered trademarks of MDLInformation Systems, Inc. ('Elsevier MDL') in the United States. Allrights reserved. Beilstein Database: Copyright (C) 1988-2006,Beilstein-Institut zur Forderung der Chemischen Wissenschaftenlicensed to Beilstein GmbH and MDL Information Systems GmbH. ChemDrawis a registered trademark of CambridgeSoft Corp. All other trademarksmentioned in this document are the property of their respectiveowners. Copyright Business Wire 2006Related Shares:
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