Daylight Chemical Information Systems Announces Vertex Pharmaceuticals Becomes New DayCart Customer.Business Editors and Health/Medical Writers BIOWIRE2K MISSION VIEJO Mission Vi·e·jo A community of southern California southeast of Irvine. It is mainly residential. Population: 96,300. , Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--Jan. 22, 2002 Daylight Chemical Information Systems, Inc., the leading cheminformatics innovator in the life science industries, announces that it has signed a multiyear global license agreement for its DayCart(R) product with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company with activities spanning the length of the pharmaceutical product pipeline, from target identification through to clinical trials and marketing. , Inc. (Nasdaq:VRTX An earlier real time operating system for embedded systems from Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, OR (www.mentor.com). VRTX was the progenitor of the VxWorks OS from Wind River and was superseded by Nucleus OS. VRTX - Virtual Real-Time Executive. ), a leader in small molecule drug discovery. DayCart(R) is Daylight's state-of-the-art chemistry cartridge which extends an Oracle database server with complete chemical intelligence. DayCart(R) is an important tool that offers biotech companies increased flexibility in designing and building chemical information systems which meet the demands of a pharmaceutical corporation's specific approach to drug discovery. The open architecture, speed, and scalability of Daylight technology enable researchers and IT personnel to develop an information system tailored to their scientific strategy. Designed with the expressed goal of allowing company-wide integration of chemical information with other types of data, DayCart(R) empowers the integration of molecular and biological information. "DayCart(R) represents a new way to build comprehensive chemical information systems," said Yosef Taitz, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Daylight. " Daylight is breaking new ground in cheminformatics, and we are pleased to expand our relationship with an innovative company like Vertex. We hope that our product will provide Vertex and other companies with opportunities for the rapid advancement of their scientific mission and commercial success." About Daylight Daylight has been providing the highest performance chemical information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. systems since 1987 and is widely regarded as the leading cheminformatics innovator in the life science industries. All Daylight chemical information systems use chemical structure as the key for storage and retrieval of data and are designed and built to robustly handle all the world's chemical information. Using Daylight tools, researchers and information architects can assemble the ideal chemical information system for any project, regardless of the scale or functionality. Daylight CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S , Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with corporate offices in Mission Viejo, CA and research offices in Santa Fe, NM and in Cambridge, England. |
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