InhibOx and COSMIC Discoveries align to deliver full service drug discovery

InhibOx Ltd (spin-out of Oxford, UK) and the COSMIC Discoveries (the independent service arm of the Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad, India) today announce that they have formed a close strategic partnership to deliver a full service drug discovery service offering, incorporating expert computational, medicinal and synthetic chemistry design capabilities. Both commercial organizations, linked to world-leading academic institutes, have built their services on advanced proprietary science and technology. Together, they offer unique capabilities that are able to address the most demanding drug discovery challenges on behalf of biotech and pharmaceutical companies worldwide.

Computational chemistry service organizations tend to operate in isolation, leaving their customers to handle compound acquisition or synthesis. Similarly, medicinal chemistry providers often use standard, off-the-shelf molecular modeling systems and databases, with only a small team of specialist users – they therefore lack access to advanced, proprietary systems and breadth of expertise. This partnership meets the market need to bring to the customer a single point of business contact and ownership and to deliver joined-up leading-edge design services.

New system for versatile fragment-based design

LOx offers a new pharmacophoric linking approach, integrated with Scopius, the largest available curated 3D compound and fragment database

InhibOx Ltd today announces LOx 2.0 - a flexible new system to identify and optimize drug lead candidates through preserving and linking critical features with new scaffolds. Lox 2.0 carries fragment-linking tools a stage further and delivers a powerful approach for drug discovery scientists seeking to alter the core scaffold of a lead series to maximize activity, optimize physical properties and to create novel intellectual property.