NEWS LABORATORY INFORMATICS
Elsevier and PerkinElmer partnership aims to enable faster chemistry research
Elsevier has announced a strategic collaboration with PerkinElmer to integrate the company’s chemistry software platforms. The first phase of this collaboration will see the integration of Elsevier’s flagship chemistry database, Reaxys, with PerkinElmer’s ChemDraw software. The ChemDraw JS software will be
available directly through Reaxys, allowing academic and industry users to access the structure editor from within Reaxys to create publication-ready drawings, and simplifying access to a range of commonly used features. ‘By integrating ChemDraw with Reaxys
we are enhancing the user experience, allowing chemists and researchers to work in whatever way is most natural and familiar to them,’ said Neal Katz, director of life science solutions marketing at Elsevier. ‘At Elsevier, we are consistently working to understand how the ways chemists work on a day-to-day basis are transforming, and to develop solutions that help them achieve their goals faster. We’re so excited about collaborating with PerkinElmer. This is the first step in a collaboration that will benefit chemists and researchers around the world.’ The integration will provide users with
greater flexibility and seamless workflow transitions, by allowing them to use their
MODELLING AND SIMULATION Altair acquires FluiDyna
Altair has acquired Germany- based FluiDyna, a renowned developer of Nvidia CUDA and GPU-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and numerical simulation technologies. Altair originally invested in the company in 2015 and now builds on its initial investment to strengthen its capabilities for GPU-based high performance computing (HPC) for fluid mechanics. FluiDyna’s simulation
software products UltraFluidX and NanoFluidX have been available to Altair’s customers through the Altair Partner Alliance and also offered as standalone licences.
‘We’ve worked closely
for more than 10 years with FluiDyna, an elite solution provider in our Nvidia partner network nprogram,’ said Shanker Trivedi, senior vice president of enterprise business, Nvidia. ‘Together, we’ve helped develop forward- thinking simulation tools that leverage Nvidia technology for better performance and efficiency throughout the design process.’ UltraFluidX solves large-
scale internal and external aerodynamics problems for a broad class of applications including ultra-fast prediction and evaluation of vehicle,
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building, and environmental aerodynamics. The software is based on the Lattice Boltzmann method, providing users with superior performance and dramatically reducing the model preparation time for large, complex models. The integrated volume meshing and fast transient analyses deliver short turnaround times, resulting in completely new possibilities for simulation-driven design and significant cost savings. NanoFluidX is a fluid dynamics simulation tool based on the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method to predict the flow in complex geometries with complex
motion. For example, it can be used to predict the oiling in powertrain systems with rotating shafts and gears, and analyse forces and torques on individual components of the system. James Scapa, founder, chairman, and CEO at Altair said, ‘We are excited about FluiDyna and especially their work with Nvidia technology for CFD applications. ‘We believe the increased
throughput and lower cost of GPU solutions is going to allow for a significant increase in simulations which can be used to further impact the design process.’
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preferred structure editor directly within Reaxys whenever they wish to create graphics for publication or queries for chemistry search solutions, rather than having to adapt or be trained on a new tool. It also gives users multiple ways to initiate a structure search depending on their particular needs for each task. With the introduction of ChemDraw into Reaxys, organisations can spend less time training chemists to master different tools, resulting in lower costs and increased productivity per user. ‘We are delighted that ChemDraw will be integrated with Reaxys as we
are dedicated to enhancing scientific discovery This integration means our users will enjoy a fluid and seamless research process, accelerating discoveries and opening up new areas of scientific inquiry,’ said Michael Swartz, business segment leader, research, at PerkinElmer. Reaxys contains more than 240 years’
worth of chemistry content, including 105 million organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds, 42 million chemical reactions, 500 million published experimental facts, 16,000 chemistry related periodicals and six indexing sources.
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