CONTACT: Paul Bendix MDL Information Systems, Inc. (510) 895-1313 ext. 1506 London-March 27, 1997-ChemWeb Inc., which produces ChemWeb.com, the global Web "club" for chemical researchers, has appointed Bill Town to the new position of operation director. Town will manage the day-to-day running of the Web environment for chemists while continuing to build the ChemWeb.com library of chemical databases, journals and references. ChemWeb.com provides comprehensive information resources for chemical research and communication. It combines electronic publishing, databases, scientific forums, and informatics technologies for structure-based searching, high-speed text retrieval and manipulation of "live" molecular structures. ChemWeb Inc. is a joint venture of Current Science Group, London, and MDL Information Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq National Market System: MDLI), San Leandro, California. Town's career spans three decades in patent and scientific information publishing and software development. He was formerly with Derwent Information Ltd. where, from 1993, he was business development manager for scientific information. From 1991 to 1993 he served as an independent consultant to the chemical, pharmaceutical, publishing and software industries. Town was chairman and managing director of Hampden Data Services Ltd. from 1983 to 1991. While at the Commission of the European Communities from 1974 to 1983, Town helped forge a framework for sharing chemical and environmental information. "Bill Town brings us a valuable breadth of experience and skill at a time when we are readying ChemWeb.com for commercial launch," said Richard Charkin, chairman of ChemWeb Inc. "Bill will help ensure that the Web site offers an impressive range of chemical science resources. He will enable us to derive maximum performance from technologies such as Electronic Pr ess' Web-club software and MDL's Chemscape, which manipulates 'live' molecular structures. He will help us meet these technical challenges and deliver the highest quality of service to the chemical research community." About the Companies ChemWeb Inc. is a U.S. company with operations in the U.K. and the U.S. that produces ChemWeb.com, an online "club" for the world's chemistry researchers. ChemWeb.com delivers complete information resources for chemical research and communication via the World Wide Web. It is the first commercial Web service to combine electronic publishing, databases, journals and scientific forums?along with informatics technologies for structure-based searching, high-speed text retrieval and manipulation of "live" molecular structures. ChemWeb Inc. is a joint venture of Current Science Group, London, and MDL Information Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq National Market System: MDLI), San Leandro, California. The Current Science Group is headquartered in London with offices in the USA and Japan. The Group includes Electronic Press Ltd., the leading provider of software for organizing and running communities on the Internet used worldwide by publishers, the pharmaceutical industry, academic institutions, and other organizations serving the scientific community. Publishing companies in the Current Science Group include Current Drugs Ltd., Current Biology Ltd., Current Chemistry Ltd., Current Medicine Inc., and Science Press Ltd., publishing a range of scientific journals, books, and databases for the biological, medical, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and chemical communities. MDL Information Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated solutions that accelerate high-throughput discovery and development in the life science and chemical industries. Our software systems, databases, and services help customers manage, communicate, and analyze the volumes of data associated with modern R&D workflows. With applications supporting chemical and biological information management, bioinformatics, automated synthesis and screening, and materials science, MDL is committed to keeping pace with new technologies in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnology industries. MDL has offices worldwide with headquarters in San Leandro, California. _____________ I can now be reached at: e-mail: billt@cursci.co.uk tel. +44 171 323 0323 fax. +44 171 580 1938 ChemWeb, Inc. Middlesex House 34-42 Cleveland Street London, England W1P 6LB Apologies for the multiple posting. Bill Town ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)