(Please feel free to re-post this message to any list you feel would be interested. Please copy davidh@mdli.com with any such cross postings, so that I can be sure to update those lists later, as this information evolves.) (This message is being posted to: acsmedi, chemweb, chemind-l, chminf-l, isisforum-l, mol-diversity, sts-l) Announcing New MDL Academic Package for North American Academic Institutions We will issue a press release concerning this package; I wanted to give the members of these lists an early notice. MDL is offering (available immediately) a new bundle of databases and programs intended to help researchers at academic institutions in their search for important chemical information and in their maintenance of their own research results. The bundle consists of databases and programs that are in wide use throughout the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, and that should be uniquely helpful in academic research. These products also will give students an important early look at software they are likely to encounter when then enter the workforce. The databases in the package include two 3D molecule databases (a comprehensive list of compounds from over 200 chemical suppliers and a database of 78,000 drug candidates, complete with biological activity information), three reaction databases (containing 600,000 reactions covering novel syntheses and preparative methods in organic chemistry from 1946 onwards) and Metabolite, a database of metabolic transformation of xenobiotic compounds (as well as a registry system for storing your own metabolic transformation information.) The programs in the package include ISIS (a client-server package that is used for structure, reaction and data storage, searching, retrieval and viewing), Chemscape (a package you can use to search and view 2D/3D molecule and reaction databases within the WWW environment), ISIS for Excel, and Project Library (a program designed to manage combinatorial "libraries"). Institutions that license the MDL Academic Package can distribute copies of the client software to their students and faculty members, and these individuals can then use that client software to access the databases provided (as well as create and access their own databases). This package is initially available in North America only for $20,000 per year. Details about the MDL Academic Package can be found at: http://www.mdli.com/academic/academic.html A FAQ page is provided at http://www.mdli.com/academic/aca_faq.html. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at davidh@mdli.com. -David Hughes ------------------------------------------------------------------ David Hughes Group Manager, Core Products, ISIS Business Unit MDL Information Systems, Inc. phone: (510) 895-1313, x.1432 14600 Catalina Street fax: (510) 352-2870 San Leandro, CA 94577 email: davidh@mdli.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- 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)