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New MolPort API Calls Help Track Your Orders

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Authorized customers are already taking advantage of the MolPort API to programmatically access information from the MolPort database about commercially available compounds, their suppliers, packaging, prices, warehouse inventory information, lead times, and other information. MolPort is now pleased to announce the addition of two new MolPort API calls to help customers track their compound orders: 1. List Orders This compound API call returns all orders for a specific client, and lists them in descending date…

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In Database

On Compound Salt Forms

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In order to dissolve a compound to make a solution of a specified concentration, you need to know its molecular weight. Most compounds are sold in a pure (non-salt) free form and it is clear what the molecular weight is: but a salt chemical compound is sold in a salt form, which means that you need to calculate the effective molecular weight that takes into account the compound to salt weight ratio. We therefore strongly…

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In Database

Announcing Screening Compound Solubility Crowdsourcing

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Today MolPort is launching a new initiative with the goal of crowdsourcing screening solubility of compound. This blog post explains why. You are welcome to use one of these quick links for navigation to the right resource. Quick links: Press Release How to access data About the initiative One of the issues that screening compound buyers bring up most frequently is compound solubility. It used to be discussed at compound management conferences. Scientists and compound…

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In Search & Order

Drawing Tricks for More Effective Substance Online Ordering – Webinar presentation

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On April 27th MolPort and ChemAxon held a joint webinar, aimed at helping scientists master the MolPort chemical structure search interface. ChemAxon’s Marvin JS is a state of the art chemical structure editor that is integrated into MolPort’s web interface to query the commercially available compound space. In the course of this webinar, you will be walked through the basic structure search editor interface on www.molport.com, will pick up productivity tips and advanced structure query…

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Structure Search User Interface Gets a Number of Small But Important Improvements

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We Part with the Marvin Sketch Applet Editor We removed the Java Applet structure editor from our website. Browsers have poorly supported Applets in corporate environments; they were slow to load and the IT industry, as a whole, has moved on to JavaSript and HTML5 technologies for a number of reasons. The newer and quicker ChemAxon’s Marvin JS editor has been available on our website for some time already and our users overwhelmingly favored it over the…

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In Database

Launching an Automatic Update Site for MolPort KNIME Nodes

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MolPort provides a number of ways to access data on commercially available compounds and their catalog data: the MolPort web portal, a downloadable database, web services (API). With web services you can instantly check the latest stock level information for MolPort compounds from your software application, Microsoft Excel, Optibrium StarDrop, PipelinePilot or KNIME. Starting today, MolPort KNIME Nodes are available from the traditional KNIME install/update website. This will not only make the knime download process much easier, but will also keep them up-to-date automatically. Just…

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In Search & Order

Email Your Shopping Cart To a Colleague Or Supervisor

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Let’s say you are looking for compounds online. You put together an order using the structure search or list search and now you have the items in your shopping cart. Are you ready to check out, or is something stopping you? Does your colleague want to add items to your order? Email the shopping cart to them and they can add their items to your shopping cart, and then they can place the combined order.…

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