Tripos will use next month’s Drug Discovery Technology (DDT) conference in Boston to launch a new laboratory informatics product suite called Benchware.
“Benchware is targeted at the lab chemist or scientist,” says Bryan Koontz, senior vice president and general manager of Discovery Informatics at Tripos. The product suite will include some new products and a mix of re-branded Tripos and Optive Research products, which Tripos acquired last year.
Tripos claims the suite was developed in response to customer demand for more intuitive and robust predictive chemistry, scientific planning, and collaborative applications for lab scientists. To that end, the suite’s products help with chemical synthesis and testing decisions and with the storage, search, and retrieval of research informatics data. They also give scientists a way to more easily share lab results.
The products in the suite include:
Benchware 3D Explorer, which performs chemical visualization and decision support (Benchware 3D Explorer was formerly offered by Tripos as LITHIUM)
Benchware HTS DataMiner, which helps locate, define, and prioritize prospective leads from screening data sets (this product was formerly SARNavigator)
Benchware LibraryMaker, with includes product-based library enumeration features for quickly pulling together compound libraries
Benchware LibraryDesigner, which helps chemists decide which reactants to use when making compound libraries
Besides launching the Benchware suite, Tripos says it will announce two other laboratory informatics applications at the DDT conference.