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.


