ChemAxon Major Software Release brings New Desktop, Web and Visualization Applications to Power Chemistry Decision Making

BUDAPEST and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

New version sets the standard in chemistry software for scientists and IT infrastructure

ChemAxon, a leader in chemistry software solutions and consulting services for life science research, announces Version 6 of their cheminformatics suite. This major software release introduces four new products: Marvin for JavaScript, Instant JChem Web Client, REST Web Services, and the Plexus project, a public beta of a web-based discovery application for bench scientists. In addition, Version 6 sees a raft of enhancements across the ChemAxon Marvin/JChem product suite improving user experience, computational performance and collaboration support, and enabling more effective chemistry data management.

Version 6 for scientists:

• All GUIs are refreshed to simplify both the user experience and access to key chemistry functions
• Marvin for JavaScript - new light-weight chemical editor for web pages which does not require Java
• Plexus - new web-based application for medicinal and computational chemists, featuring dynamic data visualization
• Improved integration with Microsoft Office

Version 6 for enterprise IT:

• Instant JChem Web Client - enables Instant JChem data visualization forms to be easily made available and worked with as Web pages
• New REST Web Services to complement existing SOA Web Services
• New search features and indexing support for ISIS and ChemDraw Excel workbooks in JChem for SharePoint
• Enhanced compound registration capabilities, including project-related data storage

"Research-based organizations need to support increasingly diverse and distributed R&D environments," commented Alex Drijver, CEO of ChemAxon. "The Version 6 release deepens our core chemistry and technical capabilities, and focuses on making that functionality more relevant to researchers' processes with improved usability and new collaboration and analysis interfaces."

ChemAxon software is adopted by a diverse customer base to support and accelerate the process from initial concept to new product candidate, minimizing IT overheads. The software suite offers robust, scalable and flexible chemistry information management that is easily aligned with organizations' business processes. ChemAxon's client base includes all of the top 15 global pharma companies, major chemical and agrochemistry companies, innovative biotechnology enterprises and academic research centres world-wide.

ChemAxon Version 6 will be launched at the European UGM, May 28-29^th, Budapest, Hungary (see chemaxon.com/events/ugm-budapest-2013). ChemAxon presentations outlining new features will be made available in our library archive as they are presented. We will also be hosting a series of Webinars to cover major new features. Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/chemaxon for notifications.

About ChemAxon
ChemAxon is a leader in providing cheminformatics software platforms and desktop applications for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. With core capabilities for structure visualization, search and management, property prediction, virtual synthesis, screening and drug design, ChemAxon focuses upon active interaction with users and software portability to create powerful, cost effective cross platform solutions that power modern cheminformatics and chemical communication. The company is privately owned with European headquarters in Budapest, US East Coast headquarters in Cambridge, MA, and sales and support offices in Europe, Japan and across North America.

SOURCE ChemAxon