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Communicating & Working with Chemical Information

Author: Paul Wight, Ph.D.
Company: Array BioPharma, Inc.
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Issue: 14.4

Some ideas in chemistry appear deceptively simple, but have a nasty habit of sneaking up on you-concepts like solubility, purity and acidity/basicity. Concepts I thought I knew well have caught me, and probably everyone else who shared this same assumption, off guard more than once. It is the problem of efficiently and effectively communicating and discussing subtle chemical concepts like these which bring about the need for a solution like ChemOffice, designed to work with the ideas and language we use in chemistry and biology.

I have been evaluating ChemOffice Ultra 2005, as a final candidate version, which aims to provide chemists with a complete suite of tools which integrate with industry standard office suites. ChemOffice has developed rapidly, utilizing the latest developments in information technology, and now offers an incredible array of tools unimaginable to chemists only 10 or 20 years ago. You have to wonder whether we will .....