A: The DiscoveryGate provides significant enhancements in both usability and functionality over the classic DiscoveryGate and is accessed directly through your web browser with no installation required, making it reliable and easy to use.

DiscoveryGate incorporates a powerful text search engine into the clean, user-friendly interface.  Search by common identifiers like the MFCD number or chemical name. You also have the option to search by drawing a molecular structure.

One-stop chemical sourcing
DiscoveryGate is the ideal portal to Accelrys Available Chemicals Directory, a comprehensive chemical database of more than 900 suppliers, and Accelrys Screening Compounds Directory (SCD) with over 50 suppliers and over 9.5 million compounds. With DiscoveryGate, you can locate, compare, and make purchasing decisions with unmatched speed and efficiency. That means no more hunting around the web or toggling back and forth between sites for price or availability comparisons.

The reaction databases are no longer available via the DiscoveryGate. Reaction subscribers can continue to use reactions on DiscoveryGate Classic until May 31, 2012, at which time they will be retired. The Bioactiviety databases also will continue to be available via DiscoveryGate Classic until May 31, 2012, after which CMC, MDDR and Accelrys Toxicity will remain available via Isentris, ISIS and the DiscoveryGate Web Service (with MDDR and Toxicity also available as SDFiles). Accelrys Metabolite will remain available via Isentris and ISIS.

Please see our new website for the DiscoveryGate and take a quick tour:

A: ACD is licensed by annual subscription on our all new DiscoveryGate platform.  Please email Sales and one of our sales professionals will be in touch with you shortly.

A: Please contact ACD Suppliers and someone will contact you to discuss listing your products in ACD.

A: To evaluate DiscoveryGate, which includes ACD and SCD, please email Sales.

A: Please see the requirements documents.
Please note, DiscoveryGate Classic will be retiring may 31, 2012

A: We are looking into bringing back catalog number searching.  Since these numbers often turn out not to be unique, this functionality was disabled in DiscoveryGate because the results were not always accurate.  We plan to redo the logic, and that should improve the results.

A: For now we’ve used smaller structure images while in grid view to ensure acceptable performance when loading results, although this is dependent on your screen resolution. We have added a "quick zoom" feature that allows you to see an expanded view of each structure thumbnail image directly from the grid view.

A: Yes, printing and exporting and saving are all areas we are actively working to enhance.

A: In the DiscoveryGate we offer a few different ways to export data.  First, you can export your shopping cart, which includes structures for users of ISIS for Excel or Isentris for Excel (users of standard Excel also can export their shopping cart but structures are not included at this time).You can also export your shopping cart as an SDFile, which includes Chime String information. The other way to export data is directly from a result set, as illustrated below. Clicking the “Export” button in the upper-right of the chemical detail view displays this dialog, which includes options for customizing the export.

From DiscoveryGate Classic you can export a list of structures into a spreadsheet.  The structures are exported as Chimestrings which are recognized by Isentris for Excel and displayed as structures.  If you use regular Excel, you will likely want to delete the Chimestring column. To create the spreadsheets, please see the “Help” Topic  “Export/Files” which uses the “Export Records” link on the tool bar:

This toolbar (dark blue with white links) is where you find the export/save/import and related links. Please note that DiscoveryGate Classic will be retiring May 31, 2012.

A: DiscoveryGate itself does not support automatic uploads from ACD to internal databases.  However, customers that license ACD on DiscoveryGate can use the DiscoveryGate Web Service to upload data programmatically, and some of our customers are doing that. This path requires someone at the customer end who can utilize XML to query the Web Service and receive data feeds that can then be directed to internal applications and databases.

We also supply monthly updates for ACD—for in-house use so that customers can host ACD on their own servers. These are available in Accelrys Direct and RCG formats (which would require the server version of Isentris or ISIS/Host), and then there are SDFile and RDFile formats which customers can use as they like.

A:  Depending upon which database is being offered, the short explanation is that the SDFile contains either 2D structures or 3D models and data fields, while the RDFile provides 2D molecules or reaction structures along with data in a hierarchical format (not flat) which preserves the relationships between all values in all fields

A: Possibly a few.  This is not a searchable field in CMC.

A: MDDR currently covers 197,500 compounds of which 1,883 are launched drugs.

A: The SDFile formats are released with the same frequency as the database releases.

A: Yes, we also offer the databases via the DiscoveryGate Web Service and for in-house installation on your Isentris, ISIS, or Pipeline Pilot platform. Customers who license ACD and Symyx Notebook by Accelrys can take advantage of the automated link to populate the Materials Table.  Please see more information about DiscoveryGate Web Service and more information about accessing Accelrys databases on Isentris.

A: We would enjoy speaking with you about your interest in the Accelrys databases and how they might assist your research efforts.  Please email Sales and our sales professionals will contact you shortly.