ISIS - Integrated Scientific Information System

ISIS is the standard software, more than 96% market penetration, of managing chemical and biological information in pre-clinical research. It is truly a large integrated system:

"We are looking for an easy-to-use interface for our discovery scientists that would integrate chemical structures from medicinal and combinatorial chemistry with biological data from the therapeutic areas and high-throughput screening.

With MDL solutions, our scientists were able to build a browser that accesses the multiple data sources and pivots the data from a single user interface. The new browser has proven its effectiveness very quickly."

"We selected ISIS because of its speed, performance, and flexibility. ISIS enables us to enhance our current capabilities, to manage our chemistry data using modern information technology standards, and to integrate data seamlessly with existing applications. We have very aggressive productivity goals, and ISIS will help us manage the huge amount of information that results from our extensive discovery program."

Dr. Edward W. Petrillo
Director of Combinatorial Drug Discovery
Bristol-Meyers Squibb

from Delivering a World of Discovery Information brochure, March, 2000

Dr. Marcel Janssen
Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry
Janssen Research Foundation

from Delivering a World of Discovery Information brochure, March, 2000

The underlying architecture of ISIS is changing from a client/server system to a three-tiered system. MDL's technology is called "isentris™".