A corporate chemistry registration application, usually centered around compound and batch information, is the cornerstone of most chemical R&D activities. Organizations may subsequently add components to extend the capabilities of these applications to manage experiments and reactions. When considering the introduction of chemistry electronic laboratory notebooks, organizations should investigate how they can best tap into the functionality of these existing application components.
Aleksandar Ruzicic of Global Biopharma Solutions says, “MDL will standardize other middle-tier services to provide essential business logic to MDL customers. In the context of a registration solution, MDL has already built an enumeration domain service based on MDL Cheshire for chemists performing parallel or combinatorial chemistry experiments. Another area MDL is currently exploring is an experiment management service that optionally includes the ability to register reactions.”
