August 16, 2007
CHEMNAVIGATOR TO PROVIDE CUSTOM CHEMISTRY SERVICES TO NCI/NIH SCIENTISTS
NCI/NIH Awards Contract for Development of New Custom Chemistry Request System
ChemNavigator announced today that it has extended its agreement with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to include the development of a new Semi-Custom Synthesis On-line Request System (SCSORS), funded mostly by NCI with additional financial support from the NIH Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC). The agreement is lead by Dr. Marc Nicklaus' Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) Group at the NCI.
The creation of new potential drug compounds is a slow and expensive process that forms a significant bottleneck in basic pharmaceutical research process. The NIH is seeking to speed the creation of new untested compounds to be used in its basic pharmaceutical research programs. In addition, the NIH would like to minimize the cost of acquiring compounds. With these goals in mind, the NCI/NIH has extended its current relationship with ChemNavigator to include the development of SCSORS.
Once fully formed, SCSORS will provide a strategy for all NIH scientists to circulate requests for specific chemical samples among thousands, if not tens of thousands, of synthetic chemists at suppliers registered in the system. Sample quantities will range from milligram up to kilogram scale requests. Suppliers will be provided tools that allow them to review these requests and make proposals to NIH scientists for the synthesis of substances.
It is expected that using the SCSORS strategy will allow the NIH to acquire chemical samples at less than 10% of the internal cost of synthesis while offering access to world wide chemical expertise and diversity.
As it grows, SCSORS will become an archive of commercially accessible custom chemistry products for pharmaceutical research. It is expected that this database of commercially accessible substances will grow to over 250 million substances in the coming two years.
Once implemented, SCSORS will be made available to other organizations under an annual subscription model. Commercial and academic subscribers will save time and money in the pharmaceutical research process by drawing upon world wide synthetic resources to create new compounds rather than relying only on costly internal synthesis.
About ChemNavigator
At ChemNavigator® we help research organizations identify and procure the chemistry they need for drug discovery and agrochemical research. We serve researchers in medicinal, computational, and synthetic chemistry as well as chemical procurement professionals by providing products and services to help select and purchase novel chemical products used in research.
The iResearch Library™ tracks over 95 million chemical products. These range from drug-like compounds for testing in molecular screening to synthetic building blocks for use in chemical synthesis. You can rapidly explore a research hypothesis by purchasing existing chemical samples for testing rather than taking months to synthesize compounds in-house. You can easily identify new sources of chemistry and expand your research effort beyond your corporate chemical library.
Our Chemistry Procurement Service provides a cost effective strategy for research organizations to procure one to thousands of novel chemical samples and products for use in research programs. Our service allows you to focus on your research and core activities by outsourcing costly and time-consuming compound purchasing projects involving many suppliers.
Selecting the right compounds and chemistry requires the right tools. We provide software tools to help you manage your chemical database and select novel compounds for testing. Our software tools provide a range of functionality, from chemical structure management to virtual screening. We support both the Windows and Linux operating systems, and our tools may be easily integrated into your own research informatics systems.
For more information contact:
Scott Hutton, President & CEO
here
NCI/NIH Awards Contract for Development of New Custom Chemistry Request System
ChemNavigator announced today that it has extended its agreement with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to include the development of a new Semi-Custom Synthesis On-line Request System (SCSORS), funded mostly by NCI with additional financial support from the NIH Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC). The agreement is lead by Dr. Marc Nicklaus' Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) Group at the NCI.
The creation of new potential drug compounds is a slow and expensive process that forms a significant bottleneck in basic pharmaceutical research process. The NIH is seeking to speed the creation of new untested compounds to be used in its basic pharmaceutical research programs. In addition, the NIH would like to minimize the cost of acquiring compounds. With these goals in mind, the NCI/NIH has extended its current relationship with ChemNavigator to include the development of SCSORS.
Once fully formed, SCSORS will provide a strategy for all NIH scientists to circulate requests for specific chemical samples among thousands, if not tens of thousands, of synthetic chemists at suppliers registered in the system. Sample quantities will range from milligram up to kilogram scale requests. Suppliers will be provided tools that allow them to review these requests and make proposals to NIH scientists for the synthesis of substances.
It is expected that using the SCSORS strategy will allow the NIH to acquire chemical samples at less than 10% of the internal cost of synthesis while offering access to world wide chemical expertise and diversity.
As it grows, SCSORS will become an archive of commercially accessible custom chemistry products for pharmaceutical research. It is expected that this database of commercially accessible substances will grow to over 250 million substances in the coming two years.
Once implemented, SCSORS will be made available to other organizations under an annual subscription model. Commercial and academic subscribers will save time and money in the pharmaceutical research process by drawing upon world wide synthetic resources to create new compounds rather than relying only on costly internal synthesis.
About ChemNavigator
At ChemNavigator® we help research organizations identify and procure the chemistry they need for drug discovery and agrochemical research. We serve researchers in medicinal, computational, and synthetic chemistry as well as chemical procurement professionals by providing products and services to help select and purchase novel chemical products used in research.
The iResearch Library™ tracks over 95 million chemical products. These range from drug-like compounds for testing in molecular screening to synthetic building blocks for use in chemical synthesis. You can rapidly explore a research hypothesis by purchasing existing chemical samples for testing rather than taking months to synthesize compounds in-house. You can easily identify new sources of chemistry and expand your research effort beyond your corporate chemical library.
Our Chemistry Procurement Service provides a cost effective strategy for research organizations to procure one to thousands of novel chemical samples and products for use in research programs. Our service allows you to focus on your research and core activities by outsourcing costly and time-consuming compound purchasing projects involving many suppliers.
Selecting the right compounds and chemistry requires the right tools. We provide software tools to help you manage your chemical database and select novel compounds for testing. Our software tools provide a range of functionality, from chemical structure management to virtual screening. We support both the Windows and Linux operating systems, and our tools may be easily integrated into your own research informatics systems.
For more information contact:
Scott Hutton, President & CEO
here
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