News

3rd July 2023

Rachael Pirie, previously with Newcastle University, joins the NextMove Software team.

1st March 2020

Dr Ingvar Lagerstedt, previously with Eli Lilly, the EBI and Accelrys, joins the NextMove Software team.

13th January 2020

Ian Fairman, formerly with Kymab, Citrix and Accelrys, joins the NextMove Software team.

26th June 2019

NextMove Software moves offices to the new Innovation Centre, 320 Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WG.

1st April 2019

Dr Richard Gowers joins NextMove Software!

13th October 2014

Dr John May joins the NextMove Software team coming from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton, UK.

14th July 2014

Congratulations to Dr Daniel Lowe for being awarded a Blue Obelisk for his contributions to Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source, specifically OPSIN. All three software engineers at NextMove Software now have blue obelisks!

1st June 2014

NextMove Software has our first ever exposition booth at the 10th International Conference on Chemical Structures (ICCS) and the 10th German Conference on Cheminformatics (GCC) in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. The ICCS/GCC conference also provides a dry-run for our first American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting exposition booth at the Moscone Center, San Francisco in August 2014.

7th April 2014

NextMove Software announce another record financial year.

27th March 2014

A description of NextMove Software's latest product Matsy is published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry as Using Matched Molecular Series as a Predictive Tool to Optimize Biological Activity. Many thanks to our co-authors and collaborators Jonas Boström and Adrian Gill at AstraZeneca in Mölndal, Sweden for helping fund its research and development.

15th October 2013

Congratulations to Daniel Lowe, product manager and developer of NextMove Software's LeadMine software that performed impressively at the BioCreative IV CHEMNDER (Chemical compound and Named Drug Entity Recognition) challenge. Of the 27 teams that submitted results, NextMove was the highest ranked of the commercial and publically available systems, comming in third place, only 0.53% behind the best performing (proprietary in-house) system.

10th April 2013

GSK's Socrates Search project for chemically aware enterprise search wins the 2013 BioIT World Best Practices Award for knowledge management showcasing the use of both NextMove Software's LeadMine and HazELNut products, in conjunction with HP Autonomy and ChemAxon's JChem Cartridge. Congratulations to Andrew Wooster and his team.

9th April 2013

Mick Kappler from Hoffmann-La Roche presents "Intuitive and Integrated Browsing of Reactions, Structures and Citations: The Roche Experience" at the Spring 2013 ACS Meeting in New Orleans, describing the use of NextMove Software's HazELNut to export reactions from the CambridgeSoft/PKI ELN and search them using Elsevier's Reaxys.

10th September 2012

Dr Noel O'Boyle joins the NextMove Software team coming from University College Cork, Ireland.

3rd June 2012

The first peer-reviewed article describing the use of NextMove Software's HazELNut product appears in the ACS Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.

27th March 2012

NextMove Software announces the release of its latest product, HazELNut, at the Spring 2012 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego, California.

1st January 2012

Daniel Lowe, formerly at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, joins the NextMove Software team.

29th December 2011

A paper describing NextMove Software's CaffeineFix and LeadMine products, entitled "Improved Chemical Text Mining of Patents with Infinite Dictionaries and Automatic Spelling Correction", appears on the ACS Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling's Article ASAP web site.

6th April 2011

NextMove Software Limited is established in the United Kingdom. The new corporate offices are at the Innovation Centre (Unit 23), Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0EY.

30th March 2011

Roger Sayle is delighted and honored to be presented a Blue Obelisk award by Peter Murray-Rust at the ACS Spring National Meeting in Anaheim, California, for his contributions to Open Source software including RasMol and OpenBabel. My thanks to PMR and the community.

23rd November 2010

NextMove Software has moved. Our new business address is 551 West Cordova Road #32, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The telephone and FAX numbers remain the same. Mail to our old address at 1303 Bartlet Court should get forwarded automatically during the transition.

1st October 2010

The paper "Foreign Language Translation of Chemical Nomenclature by Computer" is officially the most downloaded article from the American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling during 2009.

1st September 2010

NextMove Software and AstraZeneca to present on "Improved Chemical Text Mining of Patents" (CaffeineFix) at the German Chemoinformatics Conference (GCC) in Goslar in November.

1st June 2010

Perspectives article "So You Think You Understand Tautomerism?" appears in the June-July issue of the Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design (JCAMD).

17th April 2010

NextMove Software launches its shiny new web site.

21st March 2010

NextMove Software announces the release of its first product, CaffeineFix, at the Spring 2010 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, California.

Arthor provides fast state-of-the-art substructure and chemical similarity search capabilities for ultra-large databases of hundreds of millions of compounds, using SMARTS optimization, Just-In-Time compilation and/or GPUs.

CaffeineFix is used to rapidly match chemical names or terms against a dictionary or grammar (e.g. a grammar for IUPAC names). As well as use in text-mining, it can be used to provide autocomplete functionality and spell-correction.

Casandra is a server for delivering real time safety warnings of experimental hazards straight to the pharmaceutical electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs).

HazELNut is a suite of tools used to extract, normalize and analyse information in Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs). This can be used to implement a search interface, find/eliminate duplicates, find similar reactions and so on.

LeadMine extracts chemical names and terms from text. It incorporates NextMove's CaffeineFix technology to find terms that match appropriate dictionaries or grammars. It has enhanced functionality to handle the patent literature.

Matsy is a set of tools for creating and analysing Matched Molecular Series (the general form of Matched Molecular Pairs). In particular, it can be used to suggest what compound to make next in a Medicinal Chemistry program.

MPSearch rapidly searches a database to find Matched Pairs related to a query molecule. This type of search is used to explore previous medicinal chemistry strategies.

NameRXN is used to classify and name reactions. It is particular useful in the context of ELN analysis but also as a plugin to chemical drawing software. NameRXN builds on NextMove Software's Patsy technology.

Patsy is used to speed up SMARTS pattern matching by creating optimized SMARTS patterns or source code. Speed gains are particularly large when multiple SMARTS patterns are matched against a single structure.

Pistachio is a reaction dataset browser providing loading, querying, and analytics of chemical reactions. With over 9 million chemical reactions extracted from US & EPO patents, it demonstrates an AI interface to faceted (structure) search

SmallWorld is an index of chemical space based on more than 230 billion molecular substructures. It can be used to measure similarity based on graph-edit distance, find the MCS of two or more molecules, analyse HTS results and much more.

Sugar & Splice can be used to perceive and depict biopolymer structure. It makes it easy to interconvert between small-molecule representations (e.g. SMILES, MOL) and biopolymer representations (HELM, IUPAC line notation).