January 4th 2012 - Optibrium and Cresset Announce Technology Collaboration
Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, and innovative software and services provider Cresset, today announce an agreement to collaborate on the development of next-generation platforms. The innovative companies will work together, combining unique approaches to help drug discovery projects quickly identify novel, potent compounds with a high chance of success downstream. Read press release.
December 29th 2011 - UKTI helps Cambridge firm discover how to boost exports
Discovering a new drug and turning it into a safe product that works is a difficult and very expensive process costing hundreds of millions of pounds, but one Cambridgeshire firm is helping to find the cure, with assistance from UK Trade & Investment (UKTI). Most of the cash spent in the drug discovery process goes on creating and testing compounds that fail. Optibrium, based on the Cambridge Research Park, has come up with some special software to address these issues. StarDrop™ has been on the market since 2005 but the company, which was founded as a spin-out in 2009, have focused on Europe, USA and Japan due to historic relationships. Now, with help from UKTI's Life Sciences Specialist Trade Advisor Claire Lachlan, the company have made in-roads into Singapore, China and India, all huge developing markets. Read press release.
October 18th 2011 - Optibrium Expands StarDrop Availability with Apple Mac Compatibility
Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, today launches StarDrop 5.1, an upgraded version of its innovative support tool which helps drug discovery scientists to guide key decisions in drug discovery and quickly achieve successful project outcomes. As a result of this upgrade, StarDrop's unique capabilities to guide the design and selection of high quality, novel compounds are now available on the Apple Mac, a reflection of the increasing popularity of Macs within the industry. Read press release.
July 19th 2011 - Optibrium Launches New Version of Free StarVue App
Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, today launches a new version of StarVue, its innovative free desktop application that enables scientists to quickly and conveniently view sets of compound structures and related data. The latest version of StarVue can be downloaded free from Optibrium's on-line community. Read press release.
May 23rd 2011 - Optibrium Announces Free Models to Predict Toxicity of Compounds
Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, announces the availability of a range of models to help predict the toxicity of potential new compounds. Optibrium has generated a range of Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) models of key toxicity endpoints, based on data made available by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of its Toxicity Evaluation Software Toolkit (T.E.S.T.). The toxicity prediction models were built with the Auto-Modeller module of the newly launched StarDrop 5 and are available to all StarDrop users free-of-charge. To find out more and download the models please visit Optibrium's on-line community. Read press release.
March 7th 2011 - Optibrium to Unveil StarDrop 5 and Revolutionary Nova Module at ACS Spring 2011
Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, will be officially launching the next generation of StarDrop featuring the ground-breaking Nova module on booth #1121 at the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Exposition, 27th-31st March, 2011, Anaheim, CA. This intuitive platform helps to guide scientists' decisions to quickly identify compounds with a high chance of success for their drug discovery project. Nova is a completely new module within StarDrop 5, helping pharmaceutical and biotech companies to search for high quality drugs by generating new chemistry ideas, prioritised against specific property profile requirements when making critical decisions in drug discovery. Read press release.
January 31st 2011 - Optibrium to Preview New In Silico Drug Discovery Platform at Molecular Med Tri-Conference 2011
Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, will be providing a sneak preview of the next generation of StarDrop at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco, CA, 23-25 February, 2011. The exclusive preview of this ground-breaking platform will be available on booth #501, at San Francisco's Moscone North Convention Centre prior to its official launch at the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Exposition, 27-31 March, 2011, Anaheim, CA. StarDrop 5 includes new features focusing on compound idea generation, enhanced visualizations and mathematical data transformations. To schedule a booth meeting with Optibrium and learn more about the new features of enhanced StarDrop 5 please email or visit: www.optibrium.com/stardrop5. Read press release.
June 28th 2010 - Optibrium Secures 25 Accounts in First Year of Business
High Profile Client Base Reinforces Optibrium's Commitment to Providing Industry-leading Solutions
Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, today celebrates two significant milestones: its first year of trading and signing its 25th customer. Based in Cambridge, UK, Optibrium has a global customer base ranging from top-ten pharma companies to small biotechs and academic groups, including Johnson & Johnson PR&D, Pfizer, Merck Serono, Teijin Pharma Ltd., Galapagos N.V., MRC Technology, The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research and The University of Dundee. Read press release.
February 18th 2010 - Optibrium Showcases StarVue at ACS Spring 2010
Offering an Innovative Free Way to Explore Compound Data for Drug Discovery
Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, will be showcasing StarVue on booth #121 at 2010 Spring ACS National Meeting and Exposition, March 21-25, San Francisco, CA, USA. Optibrium's StarVue is a free desktop application that enables scientists to quickly and conveniently view compound structures and data. The new application eliminates the need to use expensive plug-ins for Microsoft Excel to examine, sort and search chemistry data sets. Visitors to Optibrium's booth #121 at ACS Spring 2010 will receive a copy of StarVue, allowing users to explore their compound data in a new way. Read press release.
February 4th 2010 - Optibrium Unveils StarDrop 4.3
Delivering Enhanced Features to Guide Decisions for Drug Optimisation
Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, today launches StarDrop 4.3. The intuitive software offers advantages over traditional predictive modeling platforms as it specifically helps users to identify chemistries with a high chance of success and focus expensive in-house resources. Used by pharmaceutical and biotech companies and research establishments globally, StarDrop 4.3 guides compound selection and design decisions in all stages of drug discovery. StarDrop 4.3 is the first major update to StarDrop from Optibrium, helping scientists to select high quality drug candidates with confidence, improving efficiency and productivity. Read press release.
November 19th 2009 - Optibrium Launches Online Community for Drug Optimisation
Optibrium today announces the launch of its online community. This provides a rich environment for users of its StarDrop software to interact and gain even more value from this unique platform to guide compound design and selection decisions in drug discovery. The Optibrium community will also provide a forum for the wider drug discovery community to discuss approaches to drug optimisation and share ideas and best practices aimed at improving the productivity of drug discovery. Read press release.
September 22nd 2009 - StarDrop Auto-Modeler Wins Environmental Toxicity Prediction Challenge.
Optibrium successfully demonstrated that its technology for automatically building predictive models of molecule properties can match 'hands-on' modelling approaches by generating the equal-best model in a competition organised by ICANN'09: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, European Neural Network Society (ENNS) and CADASTER. The entry by Olga Obrezanova, Principal Scientist at Optibrium, came out joint winner in a challenge to build a model that can predict the environmental toxicity of new molecules. Read press release.
September 15th 2009 - Optibrium and Molecular Networks announce collaboration plans
Optibrium Ltd. and Molecular Networks GmbH today announce plans to further intensify their collaboration and share complementary technology platforms. The companies demonstrated their cooperation with the integration of Molecular Networks' premium 3D structure generator CORINA into StarDrop, Optibrium's intuitive platform for guiding compound selection and design decisions in drug discovery. Read press release.
June 20th 2009 - StarDrop version 4.2.1 released
Optibrium is pleased to announce the first new release of StarDrop since opening for business in May. Version 4.2.1 is a minor upgrade, addressing some of the requests that our users have made for small changes or additions. Along the way, we've also made a few other improvements.
May 20th 2009 - Optibrium opens for business
Based on a management buyout of the StarDrop drug discovery software, Optibrium is dedicated to providing software to guide decisions involving complex, uncertain data in an intuitive way. We'd like to welcome all current and potential StarDrop customers to Optibrium. Read press release.
