Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) Santa Clara, Calif., has
announced that researchers using Symyx Available Chemicals Directory(r)
(previously MDL Available Chemicals Directory or MDL ACD), the largest
structure-searchable collection of commercially available chemicals in
the world, now have the option of accessing up-to-date ACD data via the
Internet using a dedicated XML-based Web Service. The Symyx ACD Web
Service was developed with design input from a global pharmaceutical
R&D organization seeking business process efficiencies and a
simplified mechanism for distributing dynamically updated chemical
sourcing data to globally dispersed project teams.
"The ACD Web Service from Symyx accelerates R&D by
dynamically injecting real-time chemical sourcing data into the R&D
process," said Timothy Campbell, president of Symyx Software.
"Using this new Web Service, research organizations can update
internal data sources and deliver sourcing data directly to scientists
using in-house-developed applications that integrate with existing
laboratory workflows."
Used by more scientists than any other supplier database worldwide,
Symyx ACD contains more than 605,000 structures representing
approximately 1.7 million products and 3.4 million packages available
for purchase, in bulk and research quantities. The database can be
searched by structure and substance identifiers to retrieve all
available data.
The ACD Web Service is part of a growing new generation of Symyx
workflow tools available to researchers today. For more information
about the Symyx ACD Web Service and other workflow and content
solutions, visit www.mdl.com.
About Symyx
Symyx Technologies, Inc. is the R&D execution partner to the
life sciences, chemicals, energy, consumer products and electronics
industries. Symyx provides electronic lab notebook and scientific
decision-support software, automated lab systems (workflows) and
collaborative research services to improve R&D productivity. In
October 2007, Symyx acquired MDL Information Systems, Inc., a leading
provider of innovative informatics software, databases and services that
accelerate successful scientific R&D by improving the speed and
quality of scientists' decision making.
For more information, visit http://www.symyx.com or call
415/694-6702.
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