New JChem extensions for KNIME delivered by Infocom provide integration of ChemAxon chemical structure handling functionality to the KNIME user community to enable chemical structure manipulations within the KNIME workflow environment.
TOKYO, JAPAN and ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Infocom, Corporation, a ChemAxon integration partner and provider of Bioinformatics solutions announced the release of the new version of the JChem Extensions version 2 for KNIME. The modules allow researchers to handle chemical structure data using ChemAxon’s software tools such as Marvin, JChem, and Standardizer within the open source KNIME workflow environment.
The KNIME platform provides a modular environment to visually create data flows, analyze and build predictive models. The JChem Extensions contain some nodes that are free of charge for general use. These nodes are called “Marvin Family Nodes” which include a set of nodes for structure conversion, “Marvin Sketch”, “Marvin View”, and “Marvin Space” which offer sophisticated rendering capabilities for chemical structures that users of KNIME in the Cheminformatics sector have been waiting for.
"The JChem Extensions for KNIME and the Marvin Family Nodes allow researchers to achieve high quality drawing and visualization of chemical structures on top of the KNIME workflow platform” said Shojiro Morishita, General Manager and responsible for KNIME extensions at Infocom. "Our work allows the scientists in chemical and pharmaceutical research to use the ChemAxon tools together with the KNIME high quality data analysis and data mining functionality.”
“The JChem Extensions for KNIME are another example of the flexibility of ChemAxon's tools being integrated into all major workflow programs“ said Alex Drijver, CEO of ChemAxon. “We are happy to see the results of Infocom making more functionality available to KNIME users in this release.”
“KNIME is an already proven and widely used integration platform for a wide range of chemo and bioinformatics tools. The free available components of the JChem Extensions provide excellent rendering capabilities to the users of KNIME", said Prof. Michael Berthold, CEO of KNIME.com. "Infocom’s implementation complements the already rich features of KNIME and makes our solution even more interesting for the Cheminformatics market".
The JChem Extensions for KNIME are another example of how the open source workflow engine can be enhanced with domain specific functionality to deliver an integrated solution to the customers.
About Infocom
Infocom Corporation offers a variety of IT services and solutions. The Chem & Bio Informatics Department provides solutions for companies in the drug discovery space covering Bioinformatics, Proteomics, DrugDesign, ADMET and drug development. The department is serving clients in different areas of from research to pre-Clinical and Clinical. Infocom has a long term relationship with several vendors in the Bio- and Cheminformatics space. Please see http://www.infocom.co.jp for more information.
Contact:
Shojiro Morishita
Infocom Corporation
2-34-17, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, 150-0001, Japan
info-science (at) infocom.co.jp
http://www.infocom.co.jp
About KNIME.com
KNIME.com GmbH provides professional enterprise solutions and services around the open source platform KNIME. http://www.KNIME.org. The modular data exploration platform enables the user to visually create data flows, execute selected analysis steps, and later investigate the results through interactive views on data and models. The KNIME.com product pipeline includes KNIME Enterprise Server, KNIME Cluster Execution, KNIME Report Server, and professional support for KNIME installations in business environments. KNIME.com also offers services such as data analysis, hands-on training and the development of customized components for KNIME. Please see http://www.KNIME.com for more information.
Contact:
Frank Schaffer
KNIME.com GmbH
Technoparkstr. 1
8005 Zurich, Switzerland
Frank.Schaffer (at) knime.com
http://www.knime.com
About ChemAxon
ChemAxon is a leader in providing cheminformatics software development platforms and applications for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. With core capabilities for structure visualization, search and management, property prediction, virtual synthesis, screening and drug design, ChemAxon focuses upon active interaction with users and software portability to create powerful, cost effective cross platform solutions and programming interfaces to power modern cheminformatics and chemical communication. For more information please visit http://www.chemaxon.com.
Contact:
Alex Allardyce
ChemAxon Ltd.
Maramaros koz 3/A,
Budapest, 1037
Hungary
Aa(at)chemaxon.com
http://www.chemaxon.com