Company profile

Mission Statement

Molecular Networks offers innovative chemoinformatics software products, consulting, development and research services to increase the quality and productivity of discoveries in chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology R&D.

The Company

Molecular Networks GmbH (www.molecular-networks.com) provides multifaceted, innovative software to the chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. The company's core strength and expertise is chemoinformatics with a focus on applications for in silico profiling, evaluating and assessing chemical compounds and finding new chemical entities.

Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, Molecular Networks' technology is utilized worldwide in major industrial and academic research and discovery laboratories to design and optimize chemical products and processes. Molecular Networks' product portfolio comprises a variety of software tools, databases and decision support systems in the area of in silico modeling and prediction of chemical, physical and biological properties of chemical compounds including their chemical reactivity and metabolic or environmental fate.

Molecular Networks provides maintenance and support and actively further develops its products.

Molecular Networks is also available as an experienced partner to develop custom-designed chemoinformatics solutions suited to the partner's specific needs and offers its unique expertise and technology to analyze and model proprietary chemical and biological data.

Molecular Networks was founded by Prof. Johann Gasteiger as a spin-off of the Computer-Chemie-Centrum at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Management of the Company

Prof. Johann Gasteiger: Founder and Professor emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nurenberg, Germany

Prof. Gasteiger, founder of Molecular Networks has more than 25 years experiences in the field of Computer-Chemistry and Chemoinformatics. Johann (Johnny) Gasteiger studied chemistry at the University of Munich, ETH and the University of Zürich and received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Munich in 1971. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in Quantum Chemistry at the University of California in Berkeley in 1971-72, Johnny Gasteiger taught at the Technical University of Munich. In 1994 he moved to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg where he co-founded the "Computer-Chemie-Centrum". His research interests are in the development of software for drug design, simulation of chemical reactions, organic synthesis design, simulation of spectra, and chemical information processing by neural networks and genetic algorithms.

In 1991, Johnny Gasteiger was awarded the Gmelin-Beilstein Medal of the German Chemical Society for Achievements in Computer Chemistry, in 1997 he received the Herman Skolnik Award of the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society, in 2005 he was the recipient of the Mike Lynch CSA Trust Award, and in 2006 he received the "ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research" of the division "Computers in Chemistry" of the American Chemical Society.