Mestrelab Research - ACS Spring and ENC
So, the ACS Spring meeting is come and gone, and here goes my swift, and time pressed as always, report.
We had a very pleasing exhibition, with over 50 visitors to our booth. So, if you did come over and took a look at the software, thank you! Also, it was great that a number of our users who were giving talks stopped by to tell us about the talks they were giving and in many cases about Mnova-prepared slides they were going to use in the talks.
People continue to be very excited by the concept of seamlessly combining NMR and LC/GC/MS in one application, which is now possible with the Mnova Suite, and of course, everyone was also excited by our latest promotion, which offers Mnova NMR for free to all those buying the whole Mnova Suite, between now and the end of May. Many people are taking advantage of this promotion so, if you have not yet, what are you waiting for?
Upcoming products: Mnova DB
The planned release of our Spectral Database has also captured people’s imagination. Once again, the feedback we got is that people really like the idea of being able to have both NMR and LC/GC/MS spectra in a database which is totally integrated within the Mnova GUI and which will not only allow users to perform structure and substructure search, but also peak searches (in NMR and LC/GC/MS) and multiplet searches (in NMR) all from within the standard Mnova front end. The concept is very simple and very powerful, and we are very excited by it! (Have a look at the poster we have presented here)
It was great to see that many of our users were excited and liked the idea too, and, of course, we got some very interesting suggestions which will allow us to release an even better application. We went to ACS looking for beta testers for this DB, to start building a list for when the software is ready (very soon) and we came back with a few of them, so that is great news. If any of you reading this would be interested in beta testing the Spectral DB, just leave me a comment here and I will add you to the list and get in touch to organize in due course.
Of course, we also enjoyed San Francisco a lot, as I always do whenever I visit this wonderful city with great weather! I even managed to catch two Golden State Warriors games, much to the amusement of most locals who thought watching the Warriors was a waste of time. I have to report a mixed bag, with an excellent victory against the Grizzlies on Wednesday and a pretty poor defeat against Dallas Mavericks, but in both cases it was fun and good to get the chance to catch a bit of the NBA (The second best basketball league in the World!).
Now, we are back in Europe but, of course, getting ready to leave for the ENC in Florida at the end of the week. We have a great program there, with a user meeting and, of course, demos at the suite all week. If you are going and are interested, check out what we are doing here.
If you are interested but you are not going, this is also no problem, we will be running a few webinars in May with the contents of the user meeting and our presentations. Just leave me a comment here and I will be in touch with more details.
