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News Release from: Advanced Chemistry Development | Subject: PhysChem 7.0
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 24 June 2003
Prediction software for drug discovery
Provides predictive tools which help medicinal chemists select potential compounds for pharmaceutical screening purposes
Advanced Chemistry Development announces the release of PhysChem version 7.0, the prediction software package that assists medicinal chemists in the crucial decision making process that accompanies drug design/discovery Developed for chemists involved in the innovation of new potential therapeutics, PhysChem version 7.0 provides predictive tools which help chemists select potential compounds for pharmaceutical screening purposes
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 4 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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This software provides the industry's most accurate prediction of critical physical organic properties such as logP, pKa, aqueous solubility, logD, and polar surface area.
These molecular parameters form the basis for passive absorption, protein binding, tissue binding, food effect, clearance, half-life, and excretion.
As a result, medicinal chemists are equipped with the appropriate knowledge to enhance the potency and efficacy of their compounds.
Aqueous solubility has become increasingly important to ensure successful oral absorption of candidate bio-organic compounds.
Since the various compartments of the gastrointestinal tract have different pHs, PhysChem places great emphasis on enabling medicinal chemists to calculate solubility at specified pH values.
In the art and science of prediction, measurement is critical.
"This year, we've worked hard to ensure our clients can use every logD, logP, and pKa measurement they make to enhance the accuracy of the PhysChem predictions.
We believe that a systematic combination of targeted measurement and ACD/PhysChem can provide high throughput and high accuracy.
The upshot is that timely data will be in the hands of medicinal chemists when they are actively considering alternative compounds for synthesis," says Robert DeWitte, director of medicinal chemistry solutions at ACD/Labs.
New to PhysChem version 7.0 is LogP Accuracy Extender.
This advanced training tool helps users extract fragments from their own data to calculate new increments for the LogP additive algorithm, resulting in improved accuracy of logP prediction and increased speed of calculation for the required classes of organic compounds.
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