CambridgeSoft was a cheminformatics

Cheminformatics

Cheminformatics is the use of computer and informational techniques, applied to a range of problems in the field of chemistry. These in silico techniques are used in pharmaceutical companies in the process of drug discovery...

 software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

, USA

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The company was founded in 1986 by Stewart Rubenstein, then a graduate student in chemistry

Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

 at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, and ended operations as an independent company in 2011. The historical main product is the molecule editor

Molecule editor

A molecule editor is a computer program for creating and modifying representations of chemical structures.Molecule editors can manipulate chemical structure representations in either two- or three-dimensions. Two-Dimensional editors generate output used as illustrations or for querying chemical...

 ChemDraw

ChemDraw

ChemDraw is a molecule editor developed by the cheminformatics company CambridgeSoft. ChemDraw is, along with Chem3D and ChemFinder, part of the ChemOffice suite of programs and is available for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.-Features of ChemDraw 12.0:...

, often sold as part of the ChemOffice suite of programs. In 2011, CambridgeSoft was sold to PerkinElmer

PerkinElmer

PerkinElmer, Inc. is an American multinational technology corporation, focused in the business areas of human and environmental health, including environmental analysis, food and consumer product safety, medical imaging, drug discovery, diagnostics, biotechnology, industrial applications, and life...

, a laboratory instruments company.