ABOUT ACD/LABS
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is a software and informatics company that supports chemical and biopharmaceutical R&D. Our chemical and analytical knowledge management platform (Spectrus) helps organizations preserve information with chemical context so it can be easily searched, processed, and reanalyzed. Our professional services team delivers software configuration and customization to align our technology with scientific workflows. We integrate with existing informatics systems and undertake custom projects, including enterprise-level automation and remote data accessibility.
BACKGROUND
A privately held company that has served the R&D community for over 25 years, ACD/Labs has a global sales and support presence, with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Our team of over 200 employees, including many PhD-level scientists, have expertise in informatics and a broad range of chemical disciplines.
MARKETS SERVED
Our core customer base is the pharmaceutical industry, including 85% of the top 50 pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the world. We are also proud to serve a wide range of scientists and researchers, including many of the largest chemical manufacturers, academic organizations, and government agencies worldwide.
PRODUCT & SOLUTION AREAS
ACD/Labs’ unique expertise lies in a world-class knowledge management platform for handling vendor-neutral, multi-technique analytical data. The ACD/Spectrus Platform enables analytical data processing for NMR, MS, LC/MS, IR, RAMAN, and UV, as well as other optical and hyphenated instrumental techniques. Spectrus offers chemically in- telligent databasing to support collaborative research and efficient data-driven decision-making.
These data analysis and management tools are used in applications that support workflows in pharmaceutical discovery and development, including:
- Tools for chemical structure confirmation, verification, and elucidation
- Chromatographic method development and optimization software
- Comprehensive management of process and analytical data for pharmaceutical and chemical development—Luminata®
- Design, planning, execution, and analysis of high throughput experiments in a single application that integrates with existing technology for a streamlined workflow—Katalyst D2DTM
The ACD/Percepta Platform uses our industry-leading physicochemical property prediction algorithms to support property evaluation, compound screening, and lead optimization. Use Percepta’s software tools to predict logP, pKa, toxicological properties, and more.
