ChemAxon – a leading provider of cheminformatics software for the life sciences industry has entered into agreement with Pfizer to provide its Markush searching and structure enumeration functionality for global development and deployment within Pfizer’s global R&D facilities.

"Markush structure search and enumeration is becoming of critical importance for structure IP and patent development," said Alex Drijver, CEO of ChemAxon. "It is an area where ChemAxon has developed a high area of expertise and where we are moving very much into the forefront."