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| Daylight Chemical Information Systems | |
|---|---|
| Name | Daylight Chemical Information Systems |
| Type | Private |
| Industry | Chemical Informatics |
| Founded | 1980s |
| Headquarters | Alexandria, Virginia |
| Products | Software, libraries, toolkits |
Daylight Chemical Information Systems Daylight Chemical Information Systems develops cheminformatics software and toolkits for chemical structure representation, searching, and analysis. The company has influenced cheminformatics through software libraries, algorithm research, and collaborations with academic and industrial partners. Its work intersects with numerous organizations, standards bodies, and research projects in computational chemistry and bioinformatics.
Daylight's work connects to institutions such as National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory while influencing projects at Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Novartis. Its tools have been cited in collaborations with universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Diego, and University of Michigan. Daylight's community outreach and conferences have included appearances at American Association for the Advancement of Science, Gordon Research Conferences, ACM SIGGRAPH, and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics meetings.
Product lines have referenced libraries and applications similar in scope to projects at OpenEye Scientific Software, ChemAxon, Schrödinger (company), BIOVIA, and Accelrys. Libraries have been used alongside RDKit, Open Babel, CDK (Chemistry Development Kit), Jmol, PyMOL, Avogadro (software), and visualization tools like Chimera (software). Integrations have been developed with workflow systems such as KNIME, Pipeline Pilot, Galaxy (platform), and Taverna (software), as well as with database systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, MongoDB, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Daylight's canonical representations relate to formats and standards discussed by IUPAC, W3C, FAIR data principles, InChI Trust, and projects like PubChem, ChEMBL, DrugBank, Protein Data Bank, and ChemSpider. File formats and exchanges often iterate with SMILES, InChI, SDF (Structure-data file), MOLfile, PDB (file format), and cheminformatics ontologies such as ChEBI, Gene Ontology, and EDAM (informatics ontology). Standards bodies like International Organization for Standardization and initiatives such as Elixir (European infrastructure) and NIH Data Commons influence interoperability.
Tools have been used in cheminformatics workflows for pharmaceutical discovery at Roche, Eli Lilly and Company, AstraZeneca, and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company; in agrochemical research at Bayer AG and Syngenta; and in materials research at Dow Chemical Company and DuPont. Academic applications include cheminformatics courses at University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, and Weizmann Institute of Science. Regulatory and toxicology use cases involve agencies like Food and Drug Administration, European Medicines Agency, and databases such as TOXNET and EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency).
Development milestones intersect with figures and groups including researchers from Daylight Chemical Information Systems collaborators at Peter Murray-Rust, William J. Humphrey, Eugene Garfield, and research labs like SRI International, Bell Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. Conferences and publications include proceedings in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Nature Chemical Biology, Science (journal), Nature (journal), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and presentations at International Conference on Chemical Structures. Funding and partnerships have involved agencies and foundations such as DARPA, Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and private venture investors tied to startups in cheminformatics.
Architectural patterns reflect influences from software projects like Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, TensorFlow, PyTorch, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, and RDKit. Algorithms relate to graph theory and cheminformatics methods discussed by researchers from Alan Turing Institute, Max Planck Society, Institut Pasteur, and algorithmic advances in works from Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, John McCarthy, and fields connected to graph isomorphism problem. Subsystems interface with machine learning models used in projects at DeepMind, Google Research, OpenAI, and academic groups at Carnegie Mellon University and University of Toronto.
Interoperability efforts have been demonstrated in integrations with enterprise platforms such as SAP SE, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. Collaborations and data exchange relate to community resources like GitHub, Bitbucket, Zenodo, Figshare, and standards communities including OpenAPI Initiative and Linux Foundation. Cross-disciplinary projects have linked to initiatives in bioinformatics institutions such as European Bioinformatics Institute, Broad Institute, Genome Institute at Washington University, and public data efforts like Human Genome Project and 1000 Genomes Project.
Category:Cheminformatics