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ActivityBase for chemists - compound registration, compound searching and simple access to biological data


ActivityBase fully integrates chemical and biological data. For chemists, ActivityBase allows scientists to register, search and display complete chemical information alongside the associated biological and analytical data.

Key benefitsKey features
Enables effective and efficient data management and decision making for chemists.Advanced structure searching — Options include substructure, superstructure, exact match and similarity, as well as an advanced stereochemistry representation system.
Access to a compound’s biological data is fast and intuitive.Powerful reporting — Access multiple views of the biological data associated with your compounds.
Releases chemists from data management chores and gets them back to the bench.Reliable, scalable and high quality compound registration — Both single compound and SD file registration is available. Register compounds using a single custom compound form, configured to view just the data that is important to you.

Extensive integration — ActivityBase offers integration to third-party structure drawing packages, and can import and export data to standard file formats such as SD files and MOL files.
Facilitates efficient communication between chemists and biologists.Configurable workflow management — Inform biologists that there are compounds ready to test via an ActivityBase Test Request, and keep track of requests throughout testing.
IDBS’ wealth of experience in delivering ActivityBase to chemists at over one hundred sites means that the system can be deployed rapidly into the production environment.


Compound registration
  • Single compound and SD file registration
  • Customisable compound form
  • Centralised, flexible business rules
  • Structure validation rules
  • Novelty checking
  • Automatic ID generation
  • Automatic calculation of average molecular mass, monoisotopic mass and formula
  • Automatic 'salt-stripping'
  • Salt and solvate properties
  • Full representation of stereoisomers, including diastereomers and geometric isomerism
  • Document management.



Record full information about a compound.

Compound searching
  • Ability to query for structures and/or data
  • Substructure, exact match, superstructure and similarity searching
  • Multiple structure queries with AND/OR logic
  • Query validation
  • Full support for stereoisomers.


Query by structure and data fields provides flexible compound searching.

Simple access to biological data
  • View biological results of your compounds from the custom compound form
  • Configure multiple views of the biological data
  • Drill down into the detail of the biological data.


Find out easily if your compounds have been tested.

Flexible display options
  • Render as two-dimensional or three-dimensional structures, including wireframe, ball and stick, tubes and spacefill display
  • Drag and drop files to and from the desktop
  • Full rotation of displayed molecule
  • Links to industry standard drawing packages.


The renderer in ActivityBase offers a wide variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional styles.