Visit to eMolecules
Visit to eMolecules
From left to right, Craig James (eMolecules), Rashmi Mistry (eMolecules & Modgraph) and Santi Dominguez (Mestrelab) in Del Mar, by the eMolecules office. Click on the photo to see the whole photo gallery
So, as part of our trip to California a few weeks ago, immediately prior to the ENC, we also visited eMolecules. I omitted this on that previous post to avoid overloading it, and also because I wanted to allow some more room to discuss what these guys are doing (in our opinion, extremely well).
Of course, the first great thing about visiting eMolecules is their location, in Del Mar, CA. This is a beautiful area just North of San Diego, with a spectacular beach. The eMolecules office as well as Klaus’ house enjoy stunning views. Combine this with the great restaurant and bar offer in Del Mar and we were obviously very happy there.
However, the most pleasing thing was meeting with the eMolecules team and hearing of the great progress eMolecules are making. Their star Cheminformatics product, eMolecules Plus, is now gaining excellent acceptance in the biotech and pharma industries, with several high profile adopters (not sure I am allowed to mention them here, so I will not, you could probably find them in the eMolecules web site somewhere, but some of them really are major players). If the Cheminformatics guys in your organization are not using eMolecules Plus, you should send them to the eMolecules Plus product page to take a look. They could find it very interesting.
The other great bit of news is that eMolecules is really succeeding at creating a great ecommerce solution for people buying screening blocks. They now allow you access to all major screening block suppliers in a ‘one-stop’ screening blocks e-commerce interface (I cannot link a demo here as it is not quite ready, we show a late alpha and it is very impressive. I will let you know as soon as it is available) which you can combine with many of the listing and searching features in eMolecules and eMolecules Plus to save outrageous amounts of time and effort in the procurement of screening blocks. I know one of their customers just managed to place an order for over 3,500 different compounds in one single process, and anyone who has tried to purchase a large variety of screening blocks in the past will know how useful this is. I believe they saved over a man-month!!! Now, what would you, or I, do with one extra month?. So, once again, I would point the people who buy screening blocks at your organization in the direction of the eMolecules ecommerce system – at this point, what they need to do is to contact Niko directly (niko@emolecules.com) as the general demo site is not quite up and running as explained above. Your purchasing guys will be forever in your debt, and you will be able to claim the favour some time later, I am sure!
From left to right Craig James (eMolecules), Carlos Cobas (Mestrelab) & Rashmi Mistry (eMolecules & Modgraph) and, behind them, the Pacific Ocean. Click on the photo to see the whole photo gallery
Finally, and not really related, we also heard while we were there that Niko just got a paper accepted in Science! Now, that is something you don’t hear from people everyday, so congratulations to Niko, these guys make good software but also do good science!
