NEXUS Biosystems' Universal Store Compound Management System Selected As Key Component Of Vanderbilt University's High-Throughput Screening Facility
Poway, CA - NEXUS Biosystems announced that Vanderbilt University's High-Throughput Screening (HTS) Facility has selected the Universal Store to manage its ever-growing collection of synthetic small molecules and natural products. The Universal Store will serve as the main repository for maintaining and managing Vanderbilt's collection as a part of its basic research and translational drug discovery activities. Multiple local and extramural medicinal, synthetic, and natural products-based chemistry efforts contribute to the population of this collection.
This collection is utilized in large part by the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology's (VICB) High-Throughput Screening (HTS) Facility. This facility utilizes state-of-the-art instrumentation and data management tools to interrogate chemical libraries, enabling identification of compounds and reagents for use in basic research, therapeutics, and diagnostics. The facility serves the Vanderbilt research community in developing and running HTS on a wide variety of targets using Vanderbilt's local chemical compound collection. In addition the facility exists as a national resource for screening G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), ion channels, and transporters as one of the ten-member, NIH-funded, Molecular Libraries Screening Center Network (MLSCN): http://mli.nih.gov/mlscn/index.php
"We are very excited about the selection of our instruments as a major component of the VICB's on-going research initiative," stated Tommy Bui, VP of Business Development for NEXUS. "The VICB requires a sample management system that can achieve demanding requirements for performance, reliability, and most importantly, sample integrity. Vanderbilt's decision to implement the Universal Store further validates NEXUS' technology as a premier solution for the storage, retrieval, and management of diverse chemical libraries."
Dave Weaver, Director of the Vanderbilt HTS Facility, said, "We are thrilled to be working with NEXUS to deploy its compound storage and management system. We extensively evaluated numerous compound management systems and we particularly prized the Universal Store's flexibility, scalability, and functionality. For us, getting a system that was able to serve our present needs while being built on a design philosophy that ensures its ability to accommodate future advancements in compound storage was extremely appealing."
SOURCE: NEXUS Biosystems