SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 18, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) today announced that Symyx Available Chemicals Directory (ACD) has moved from quarterly to monthly updates of supplier catalogs. Continuously improving the update frequency of ACD enables scientists to identify the optimal set of compounds for their synthesis or library with increased confidence that those compounds will be available at the indicated prices from the selected suppliers.
"We welcome the monthly updates to Symyx ACD," said Dick Tracey, president of Oakwood Products, Inc. "We list over 16,000 compounds, many of which are unique. We often need to add, delete, and change the price or pack size for an item. Monthly updates to ACD will enable us to provide our customers with more up-to-date data on our product line. I consider Symyx ACD to be a great marketing tool for Oakwood and believe our customers will very much like the more frequent monthly updates to the data."
Symyx ACD is the most widely integrated and accessible commercial compound directory in the world. ACD information consolidates sourcing information from over 870 compound suppliers and is available to scientists through the applications they use every day. With ACD, scientists can access up-to-date chemical property, availability, and pricing information in the context of their workflows through in-house, custom applications or standard applications such as Symyx Notebook, Symyx Isentris, ISIS, and Symyx Logistics lab informatics software. Scientists can also access ACD sourcing information via smartphone applications and the Symyx-hosted DiscoveryGate(r) and DiscoveryGate Web Service platforms.
"Scientists need up-to-date chemical sourcing information integrated directly into the applications they use every day for experiment planning," said Dr. Trevor Heritage, president of Symyx's software division. "Symyx ACD's broad availability via numerous delivery mechanisms, including remotely hosted services, is helping to bring up-to-date sourcing information directly into scientists' workflows. For example, pushing frequently updated reagent availability and pricing information from ACD directly to the ELN results in faster, more cost effective synthesis experiments."
Used and trusted for over 20 years by researchers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, and agrochemical sectors worldwide, Symyx ACD is a meticulously curated, high quality chemical sourcing database containing over one million unique chemicals (including 2D and 3D structures), over three million products, and over six million packages offered for purchase in bulk and research quantities.
About Symyx
Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) enables companies in life sciences, chemicals and energy, and consumer and industrial products to transform scientific R&D and achieve extraordinary breakthroughs in productivity and return on investment. Symyx scientific information management enables scientists to design, execute, analyze, and report experimental results faster, more easily, and less expensively. Symyx microscale, parallel experimentation enables a single scientist to rapidly explore a broad experimental space and develop comprehensive data sets in days -- not weeks or months. Symyx contract research delivers these advantages on a project basis and enables companies to increase R&D productivity, agility, and flexibility. Information about Symyx, including reports and other information filed by Symyx with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at www.symyx.com.
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