BioTools provides instrumentation and services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in several niche markets. They concentrate in the areas of biopharmaceuticals and chiral-organic drugs. Their unique products are used for molecular structure characterization from active ingredient to formulated finished products. BioTools was the first company to commercialize two ground-breaking techniques in vibrational spectroscopy - Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD) and Raman Optical Activity (ROA). VCD is the most sought after technique for determination of absolute configuration of chiral molecules, including natural products and chiral API's. ROA is mostly used for structure characterization of glyco-proteins, proteins, viruses and nucleic acids.
