Dr. Michael Stapleton (General Manager, Informatics), Mr. Robin Y. Smith (Chief Scientific Officer, Informatics), Dr. William H. Balke (Vice President, Asia Pacific Operations/Informatics), Mr. Shoubo Qin (Country Manager, Informatics) and three of their colleagues from PerkinElmer visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of November 6, 2012. The guests received a warm reception by Dr. Ming-Wei Wang who also conducted an in-depth discussion with the PerkinElmer team relative to close collaborations on database and software technologies. Ms. Yanyan Jiang (Head of Information Management at CNCL) participated in the meeting.