NextMove Software Company Research Report
Company Overview
- Name: NextMove Software
- Mission: To develop next-generation chemoinformatics solutions to pharmaceutical industry problems.
- Founded: 2010
- Founder: Roger A. Sayle, Ph.D.
- Key People:
- Roger A. Sayle, Ph.D. - CEO and Founder
- John W. Mayfield, Ph.D. - Senior Software Engineer
- Ingvar Lagerstedt, Ph.D. - Senior Software Engineer
- Rachael Pirie, Ph.D. - Senior Software Engineer
- Headquarters: Innovation Centre, 320 Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WG, United Kingdom.
- Number of Employees: No information is available
- Revenue: No information is available
- Known For: Developing innovative informatics solutions for strategic decision making in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries.
Products
1. LeadMine
- Description: A text mining tool for the identification and annotation of chemicals and other entities in text.
- Key Features:
- Identification and correction of misspelt terms and entities.
- Handles large dictionaries efficiently.
- Supports Chinese and Japanese document processing.
2. HazELNut
- Description: Tools for unlocking and exploiting chemical reaction data in ELNs.
- Key Features:
- Export reaction databases.
- Reaction normalization and classification.
- Duplicate checking and elimination.
3. Sugar & Splice
- Description: Toolkit for integrating cheminformatics and bioinformatics.
- Key Features:
- Conversion between all-atom representations & sequences.
- Supports BLAST searching and sequence alignment.
4. SmallWorld
- Description: Technology for graph edit distance-based chemical similarity search.
- Key Features:
- Revolutionary approach to molecule comparison.
- Handles large databases efficiently.
5. Arthor
- Description: High-performance chemical database searching technology.
- Key Features:
- Outperforms current chemical cartridges.
- Provides real-time performance bounds.
6. Matsy
- Description: Tools for Matched Series Analysis.
- Key Features:
- Generating and searching matched series.
- Predicting R groups likely to improve activity.
7. CaffeineFix
- Description: Chemical nomenclature spelling correction tool.
- Key Features:
- Correct spelling errors in chemical nomenclature.
- Customizable suggestion scores.
8. Casandra
- Description: Real-time reactive hazard alerting.
- Key Features:
- Provides hazard alerts integrated with ELNs.
- Uses flexible condition encoding.
9. Pistachio
- Description: Reaction data, querying, and analytics.
- Key Features:
- Enrichment of reaction data.
- Powerful query capabilities.
Recent Developments
- New Team Members and Roles:
- July 3, 2023: Rachael Pirie joined the team from Newcastle University.
- Office and Infrastructure:
- June 26, 2019: Relocation to the new Innovation Centre, Cambridge Science Park.
- Product Enhancements:
- SmallWorld Version 5.0 made improvements in speed, size, and ease of use (October 2021).
- Research and Development:
- Daniel Lowe’s extensive work in reaction extraction and USPTO (Series work with Pistachio).
- Community and Conferences:
- Attends industry conferences like ACS Meetings, showcasing advancements like LeadMine and SmallWorld.
- Partnerships and Collaborations:
- Past collaborations with AstraZeneca to improve chemistry text mining (CaffeineFix).
(Note: The above report compiles information available up to date and any unavailable data has been marked as such.)
