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The necessary tools for planning combinatorial chemistry experiments.

Author: Camden A. Parks, Ph.D.
Company: CambridgeSoft Corporation
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Issue: 13.3



COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY is a powerful technique for increasing a chemist's productivity. It allows the chemist to produce large libraries of compounds relatively quickly. These libraries can then be screened to find, for example, drug compound candidates. This ability to generate great numbers of compounds brings with it great demands for managing data.

Microsoft Excel is Handy

Chemists have long used Microsoft Excel to manage information about combinatorial chemistry experiments: lists of reagents, lists of products, and properties for the compounds used and generated. Excel allows chemists to easily sort and graph their data. However, Excel itself is not equipped to handle chemical structures, nor can it take a generic reaction and lists of reagents and generate the products which would result.



Combinatorial Chemistry in Excel

CambridgeSoft provides you with the tools you need to plan combinatorial chemistry experiments in Excel. CambridgeSoft's ChemDraw/Excel add-in provides the basic .....