Have you ever purchased 50, 100 or 1000 screening compounds? Usually such purchases involve from 10 to as many as 30 suppliers. At first, the biggest challenge seems to be understanding which supplier sells which compound, but during the process you encounter a series of various unexpected obstacles and complications that you initially did not even consider. Since MolPort serves numerous clients who have not previously purchased large quantities of screening compounds, we decided to…

Have you ever purchased 50, 100 or 1000 screening compounds? Usually such purchases involve from 10 to as many as 30 suppliers. At first, the biggest challenge seems to be understanding which supplier sells which compound, but during the process you encounter a series of various unexpected obstacles and complications that you initially did not even consider. Since Molport serves numerous clients who have not previously purchased large quantities of screening compounds, we decided to…

If you work in virtual compound screening, you need a compound database. Of course, testing a compound is a lot easier if you can select compounds that can be quickly ordered, that are in stock. You can collect and regularly update supplier catalogs, but to do so comprehensively is a full time job. There are several ready to use commercial, academic and government databases, example, ZINC, CoCoCo. A number of our partners are using the Molport database…

A good client of ours just asked us to find another compound. A quick search of our database lead us to one supplier. This supplier’s catalog was updated in our database about half a year ago. This is not the freshest data, but most of the time this is sufficiently new information. So we rang up their sales people to get a quick quote over the phone. Unfortunately, however, they sold out just last month…