San Diego, USA and Pune, India: Molsoft LLC, a leading software development company, announced today that they have entered into an agreement with Advent Informatics to promote distribution of Molsoft’s ICM computational drug discovery software in India.
Through this agreement chemists and biologists in India will be able to facilitate access to the software tools and services for lead discovery, ligand docking, screening, modelling, cheminformatics, bioinformatics offered from Molsoft LLC. Under the terms of this agreement Advent Informatics will utilize its marketing and research expertise in India to distribute and support Molsoft products in India.
“High quality modelling tools are very essential in drug discovery, we want to empower the research community in India by providing access to software that is used by leading global pharmaceutical companies” said Surojit Sadhu, Founder, Advent Informatics.
“We are excited to enter into this agreement with Advent Informatics because they have a lot of experience in the Indian IT drug discovery market. The ICM-Pro desktop modeling suite is currently outperforming other software for ligand docking and screening accuracy and working with Advent will help expand access to the software for scientists in India” said Dr. Andrew Orry (Business Development, MolSoft LLC).
About Molsoft LLC: Molsoft is a San Diego company that develops new breakthrough technologies in computational chemistry and biology. Molsoft is committed to solving intellectually challenging problems in drug discovery and computational biology. Molsoft has built proprietary computational environments including the ICM suite of programs for molecular modeling, bioinformatics, cheminformatics and ligand docking, and MolCart. Molsoft offers software tools and services in lead discovery, modeling, cheminformatics, bioinformatics, and corporate data management, forms partnerships with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and is the recipient of several NIH and DOE-sponsored awards.
About Advent Informatics: Advent Informatics is a Pune based start-up focusing on providing state-of-the-art software to researchers and students. Advent Informatics promotes solutions from International companies by acting as a bridge between researchers based in India and international software and database companies. Primarily focusing on life sciences, Advent Informatics offers software and IT solutions that catalyze the research of users working in the field of Chemistry, Biology and Drug Discovery, as well as provide technical support offered to its users.