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Adept Scientific are pleased to announce the launch of CambridgeSoft’s BioOffice 2005: the ultimate suite for managing biological data.

With the addition of new and exciting biology-based desktop applications, CambridgeSoft has created a new suite of products especially for biologists called BioOffice. Combining the computing and analysis capabilities of BioAssay, BioViz, E-Notebook and Inventory, with the superior drawing and database capabilities of ChemDraw, Chem3D and ChemInfo, BioOffice is the ultimate suite for biological computing.

Included in BioOffice Ultra 2005…

BioAssay Ultra – the cornerstone of BioOffice, provides flexible storage, retrieval, and analysis of biological data. Designed for complex lead optimisation experiments, the software supports the quick set-up of biological models. Users model an assay mathematically in BioAssay to organise their data, perform automatic calculations and create plots.

BioViz/Chem & BioOffice – the ability to combine biological data with chemical structures is extremely important in any drug discovery environment. BioViz/Chem & BioOffice allows any user to analyse structure-related data combined with biological data visually. As an add-on to ChemFinder, this application provides a graphical representation of the data loaded into a ChemFinder form. Users can search over data and construct a scatterplot, histogram, or other useful data graphs of the resulting dataset. Plots are interactive to allow the selection and analysis of subsets of data.

E-Notebook Ultra – the most efficient and accurate way to write lab notebook entries as part of the daily work process. E-Notebook stores Microsoft Office documents, ChemDraw structures and reaction drawings, and related data in an electronic notebook that can be searched by text or chemical structure. Users organise pages by project, experiment, or according to their own style with Access. CombiChem/Excel builds combinatorial libraries.

Inventory Ultra – the desktop application designed to deliver much of the functionality of CambridgeSoft’s Enterprise level applications without a widespread rollout. Using MSDE as the desktop database, users are given the opportunity to organise, store and search over their inventory from their desktop. Inventory Ultra includes a copy of the ChemACX Database, providing a complete tool for research chemical sourcing and purchasing. It includes 350 major catalogues, from Alfa Aesar and Sigma Aldrich to TCI.

ChemDraw – allows users to easily draw chemical structures, featuring stereochemical intelligence, atom numbering, structure and style templates, a large choice of bonds and arrows, full colour drawing, and much more. These structures can be pasted into Microsoft Word documents, Excel documents, and PowerPoint presentations, to allow for professional looking journal articles, reports, and presentations.
Chem3D – this chemical modelling application provides realistic 3-dimensional quality renderings of complex chemical structures. Drag and drop structures from ChemDraw documents, calculate transition state geometries and physical properties with Fujitsu’s MOPAC, and add descriptive statistics and plots for structure-activity relationships with ChemSAR/Excel.

BioDraw – for drawing, annotating, sharing and presenting biological pathways. BioDraw makes it easy to draw biological pathways. Common pathway elements (membranes, DNA, enzymes, receptors, reaction arrows, etc.) are built in, and other elements can be imported. The pathways users create with BioDraw can be exported for use in presentations, grant proposals, and publications.

Scientific Databases – BioOffice 2005 includes a copy of ChemIndex Ultra, ChemRXN, NCI, and AIDS. The databases are searchable by chemical structure as well as molecular formula, molecular weight, and many other data fields. ChemINDEX is a directory of over 75,000 unique chemical substances, listing chemical structure, 3D structure, registry numbers, synonyms, physical properties, and links to Internet sources of further information. ChemRXN is a refined selection of over 29,000 fully atom-mapped reactions, including carefully selected reactions from InfoChem’s ChemSelect database and ISI’s ChemPrep database. National Cancer Institute (NCI) provides structures, names, and biological screening results from the Developmental Therapeutics Program (DTP), including DTP Human Tumour Cell Line Screen and DTP AIDS Antiviral Screen.

BioOffice will provide any biologist with the resources, tools and knowledge to dramatically improve the way they work and the quality of the results they produce.

BioOffice 2005 is supplied and supported in the UK by Adept Scientific plc, Amor Way, Letchworth, Herts. SG6 1ZA; telephone (01462) 480055, fax (01462) 480213, email chem@adeptscience.co.uk; or see Adept’s World Wide Web site http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/.

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