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January, 2010
InfoChem's website gets a "face-lift".
In the effort of helping our present and future customers to find easily what they are looking for, we have modernized the Homepage, offering direct links to our blockbuster-products. Furthermore the addition of a new section "Projects" enables the visitor to follow new developments at InfoChem, that are still not available as products. Click here to view the new section.

October 21, 2009
InfoChem has won the Infonortics Prize for the Best Visual Presentation at the ICIC Meeting held in Sitges, Barcelona. Valentina Eigner Pitto (right) receives the prize from the hands of Anne Giraud (left) for the most clear, attractive and communicative presentation. Click here to read more.

September 30, 2009
ICEDIT offered as depiction tool in Reaxys, Elsevier's workflow solution for research chemists. Reaxys users may choose InfoChem's product as a drawing tool. Click here for more information about ICEDIT and to get download instructions.

July 18, 2009
20 years ago CEO Peter Loew and Heinz Saller founded InfoChem, one of the leading companies regarding handling and retrieval of structure and reaction information. On its anniversary InfoChem celebrates 20 years of successful software developments (e.g. ICCARTRIDGE, SPRESIweb, CLASSIFY) and reliable partnerships (Symyx, Thieme, BASF, etc.).
Happy Birthday InfoChem!

May 28, 2009
Germany's federal government and the Laender Gemeinsamen Stoffdatenpool Bund/Länder announce the launch of the new online application "GSBL Webapplikation 3.x". InfoChem as a strategic partner of the Umweltbundesamt has been responsible for the development and maintenance of the innovative and user friendly web based user interface of GSBL. Moreover, the hosting, maintenance and user administration of the web application is operated by InfoChem. The GSBL (Gemeinsamen Stoffdatenpool Bund/Länder) database can now be used via the Internet giving the public free access to critical information about 400,000 chemical substances. Click here to read the press release.

April, 2009
Version 1.0 of ICCHEMDESK InfoChem's desktop client application for management and visualization of chemical structure and reaction data, has been launched.

March 27, 2009
InfoChem's project "ChemProspector - Intelligent search of chemical structures in documents" announced among the winners of the "THESEUS MITTELSTAND" technology contest. THESEUS is a flagship initiative of the German Ministry of Economy and Technology and the goal of the contest is openening possibilities for small- and medium-sized enterprises to create the Internet of the future. With ChemProspector InfoChem wants to develop a platform for storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures contained in documents that can be stored in local and in external databases. The goal is to give scientists in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry as well as in patent offices the possibility of locating effectively representations of chemical structures and the respective patents. Click here to read the whole press release (German only).

March, 2009
The new version of ICCARTRIDGE, developed at InfoChem to enable structure and reaction retrieval in Oracle®, has been launched with new and innovative features.
Click here to see the whole version history.

February 10, 2009
The SPRESI structure and reaction database is now available to chemists via the Symyx Isentris® data access and decision support system. Click here to read the whole press release.