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Archive for November, 2010

The Telegraph: Drug and cosmetics firms back plan to cut animal testing

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Today The Telegraph published an article about drug and cosmetic firms planning to cut back on animal testing, click here to see full article.  The time is right for a big push in this area with affordable computing power, sophisticated computer models based on many years’ experience and huge quantities of experimental data now all available. Success [...]

European Pharmaceutical Review: New Paper from Optibrium and Tessella

Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, and Tessella, the information technology and consulting services company and world leaders in digital preservation technology, published a new paper highlighting that scientists’ instincts may not always lead them to making good drug discovery decisions. The challenges of decision-making arise from the importance of multiple/conflicting criteria [...]

Fusion Business: ITER project management contract awards

UK companies have been successful in winning a number of ITER International Organisation (ITER IO) project management contracts to assist the central engineering team with design, procurement scheduling and liaison with other partners’ ITER Domestic Agencies..read more

PRESS RELEASE: Leading science labs collaborate on open source software

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory neutron source scientists team up with Tessella to deploy open source software solution for international data reduction and analysis project Oxford, UK |December 9, 2010. Tessella, the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services is pleased to announce that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) [...]

Tessella Prize for Software at University College London

Friday, November 12th, 2010

Each year Tessella sponsors prizes within the physics departments of several top universities. A prize is awarded, by each university, to the student who makes the most effective use of software in their final year physics projects. This year, at the University College London (UCL),  Jake Stinson was awarded the prize for the quantitative description of [...]

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters – Automated Lead Optimization of MMP-12 Inhibitors Using a Genetic Algorithm

By Stephen D. Pickett,  Darren V. S. Green, David L. Hunt, David A. Pardoe, and Ian Hughes. Abstract Traditional lead optimization projects involve long synthesis and testing cycles, favoring extensive structure-activity relationship (SAR) analysis and molecular design steps, in an attempt to limit the number of cycles that a project must run to optimize a [...]