DeepMatter meets 2018 goal for 'DigitalGlassware' pioneer numbers

Chemistry digitising company DeepMatter has now entered into agreements with a total of five organisations for its ‘DigitalGlassware’ pioneer programme, which represents the minimum that it planned to initiate during 2018, it announced on Wednesday.

The AIM-traded firm said that in addition to the two agreements signed with “leading international” life science reagent and chemicals manufacturers, which it announced during April, it had now signed agreements with three further “pioneers”, comprising an unnamed “world-renowned” US-based research centre and two universities - one in the UK and one in North America.

It said that entering into agreements with such a range of target users reflected its previously-described plan to select a range companies and institutions to trial its technology, allowing the observation of the technology’s performance in different operating environments and locations.

The company said it anticipated entering into further pioneer agreements.

“The company's ‘DigitalGlassware’ platform, comprising a powerful and easy-to-use software interface with a unique, low footprint sensor array, collects, stores and processes data generated from chemical experiments and allows access to reproducible chemistry via internet protocols,” DeepMatter explained in its statement.

“Under the agreements, each of the pioneer partners are entitled to multiple instances on the ‘DigitalGlassware’ platform, including hardware and software.

“Each of the Pioneers is providing manpower and other resources, performing experiments and tests it wishes to perform, in addition to experiments and tests suggested by DeepMatter.”

DeepMatter said the experiments and tests were contributing towards context-rich data content, capable of being interrogated with artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, as well as exploring DigitalGlassware's full operating potential.

“These observations will contribute towards future technology optimisation, prior to wider dissemination to target users.

“The pioneer companies will also assess the performance of the ‘DigitalGlassware’ platform, specifically to understand how it can help improve the outcomes of chemical processes, including precision and reproducibility, with an eye to how the technology can help in discovering [and] enabling new synthetic routes and chemical entities.”