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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March
3, 2006.
FMC
acquires global all product ChemAxon licenses and switches over
to JChem structure search platform.
March
3rd, 2006, Budapest, Hungary and Philadelphia, US: ChemAxon, a software
solutions provider for chemistry, and FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC)
announce global licensing of ChemAxon's complete product line and
the switch over of FMC Agricultural Products Group's structure search
platform to ChemAxon's JChem cheminformatics platform.
The
FMC Corporation is one of the world's foremost, diversified chemical
companies with leading positions in agricultural, industrial and
consumer markets. FMC's Agricultural Products Group is responsible
for discovering, optimising and producing insecticides and herbicides
for use on a broad range of crops and pests.
ChemAxon
is a leading provider of platform independent cheminformatics toolkits
and chemical research software. Through the global acquisition of
ChemAxon's toolkits FMC is able to implement state of the art cheminformatics
platforms useful for insilico structure design, screening, property
prediction and management. The migration of the structure search
at FMC's Agricultural Products Group is the first step in this integration.
"FMC's
APG Discovery Research has evaluated ChemAxon's products, JChem
and Marvin, and found the products to be intuitive, easy to use,
reliable, and scalable. In FMC's opinion, ChemAxon's tools are technically
sound and are enterprise solutions. More importantly, the evaluation
has, in FMC's opinion, shown that the search results from JChem
Cartridge are more chemically precise and logical than those from
the existing search engine. FMC has found that ChemAxon's other
software products are also very useful and interesting. In addition,
the cost of purchasing and maintaining ChemAxon's products is very
competitive and ChemAxon's customer service and technical support
are among the best that FMC has found. As a result, FMC's APG Discovery
Research has moved its structure search platform to the ChemAxon
platform." said Dr. Ann Orth, Research Director for FMC's Agricultural
Products Group
"We
are very pleased to be working with an organisation like FMC, we
were particularly happy with the fast and straightforward platform
changeover process." commented Ferenc Csizmadia, CEO Of ChemAxon.
About
ChemAxon
ChemAxon is a leader in providing cheminformatics software development
platforms for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and agrochemical
industries. With core capabilities for structure visualization 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 and programming interfaces to power modern cheminformatics
and chemical communication. For more information please visit http://www.chemaxon.com
About
FMC Corporation
FMC Corporation is a diversified chemical company serving agricultural,
industrial and consumer markets globally for more than a century
with innovative solutions, applications and quality products. The
company employs approximately 5,000 people throughout the world.
The company operates its businesses in three segments: Agricultural
Products, Specialty Chemicals and Industrial Chemicals.
Contact.
Alex Allarydce,
Dir. Communications.
Tel.: +361 453 2658
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