ACD/Labs Announces the Release of Version 9 of Web Librarian

ACD/Labs Announces the Release of Version 9 of Web Librarian

Toronto, Canada (March 6, 2006) -- Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce the latest version of ACD/Web Librarian, the Web browser-based software for sharing and viewing spectral, chromatographic, and chemical data. ACD/Web Librarian allows chemists to securely access analytical results from anywhere via the corporate intranet or a secure internet link, search and retrieve information by spectral parameters or chemical structures, and create instant reports.

ACD/Web Librarian enables users to view over 130 file and database types. It supports an extensive variety of 1D NMR, 2D NMR, UV-Vis, IR, Raman, MS, Chromatography, XRPD, DSC, TGA, and other analytical curve data, as well as chemical structures and metadata. Information is displayed and maintained in a centralized repository that is accessed to authorized members of an organization via a Web browser such as Internet Explorer.

Key new features of this release include convenient display of hyphenated datasets which allow users to scroll through and view individual scans. Users will now also be able to add images to records, and export raw spectral data to the ACD/Labs desktop processing tools for re-processing and review. With the augmented support of ACD/SpecManager, specific interlinking of various spectral data with individual chromatographic peaks is now possible. Existing users of the software will find numerous new advancements that augment the usability of the software for chemists, analysts, and IT personnel.

Mark Bayliss, Director of Analytical Informatics for ACD/Labs, adds, “Creation and processing of data can be enabled through our desktop software processing and data management platforms. Making this valuable analytical information available to all appropriate personnel locally and globally within your organization is delivered in a cost effective format using your corporate intranet technologies ensuring low deployment overheads for informatic departments through our Web Librarian technology.  A Web Services layer augments the standard product offering allowing integration with existing corporate informatics systems”

For further information on ACD/Web Librarian, please visit www.acdlabs.com/weblibrarian/.

Examples of this software’s application to display various analytical data, including the free chromatographic applications database, is available at www.chromdb.com.

About Advanced Chemistry Development

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is a chemistry software company offering solutions that truly integrate chemical structures with analytical chemistry information to produce ChemAnalytics^®. ACD/Labs creates innovative software packages that aid chemical research scientists worldwide with spectroscopic validation of structures, elucidation of unknown substances, chromatographic separation, medicinal chemistry, preformulation of novel drug agents, systematic nomenclature generation, and chemical patenting and publication. Combined, ACD/Labs' solutions create an analytical informatics system that provides dramatic feed-forward effects on the chemical and pharmaceutical research process. Founded in 1993, and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, ACD/Labs employs a team of over 100 dedicated individuals whose continual efforts carry ACD/Labs' innovative technologies into pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and materials companies throughout the world. Information about Advanced Chemistry Development and its products is available at www.acdlabs.com