Reel Two launches SureChem

December 1, 2004

Reel Two introduces SureChem, a new tool that extracts and associates chemical compound names in literature, including patents, enabling search by name or structure.

Reel Two, Inc. has released SureChem, a unique product that enables researchers and intellectual property analysts to find all the chemical compounds related to their search queries or areas of research. It is designed to address what many chemists and patent searchers consider the most tedious and aggravating part of literature and patent searching. As described by the discovery informatics director at a major European pharmaceutical firm, "for true compound tagging, SureChem is way out in front of anything else out there."

SureChem searches documents by name or structure. Compound names are highlighted in the text of documents such as MEDLINE abstracts, full-text patent documents and journal articles. SureChem also displays associations between compounds and the search query, as well as associations between the compounds identified and other entities retrieved during the search, including species, minerals and countries. SureChem is powered by Reel Two's Entity Extractor, a technology that rapidly identifies, tags and extracts single and multiple-word proper name entities, and OpenEye Scientific Software's OGHAM, a toolkit that enables accurate conversion between chemical names and structures.

SureChem is available as a hosted service or an onsite web service installation. Like all Reel Two products it is written in Java for cross-platform compatibility. For a demo of SureChem 1.0, please visit surechem.reeltwo.com. For more information about SureChem, including features, coming releases and licensing, please contact sales@reeltwo.com.

 

About Reel Two

Reel Two develops text-mining tools for the life sciences, including products for text classification and entity extraction as well as customized solutions. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with a development center in Hamilton, New Zealand. For more information, please visit www.reeltwo.com/.

About OpenEye Scientific Software

OpenEye develops molecular modeling software geared towards drug discovery and design. Applications include structure generation, docking, shape comparison, charge and electrostatics, chemical informatics and visualization. The software is designed for scientific rigor, speed, scalability and platform independence. OpenEye also makes its technology available as toolkits suitable for third-party software development. For further information, please visit www.eyesopen.com.