Specs, founded in 1987, provides chemistry and chemistry support services required in traditional small molecule drug discovery. Today, Specs is the world's leading provider of compound management services, in addition to being a main supplier of high quality screening compounds and building blocks to the Life Science industry. Our chemically diverse in-house collection, consisting of single synthesized, well-characterized and drug-like small molecules, has been built through global acquisition programs utilizing a network of more than 2,000 academic sources worldwide. Our 35 years of compound handling experience is now also offered to our customers for managing their compound collections. In addition to providing compound handling services and high quality compounds Specs offers a wide range of services such as: •cheminformatics •custom synthesis •contract research •compound sourcing These global activities are managed from the headquarters in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands and Cumberland, Maryland, additionally supported by regional offices and representatives in North America, Japan, India and China