Integration of ACD/Labs Calculators and Symyx Draw Promotes
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) and Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD/Labs) today announced the availability of no-charge add-ins to Symyx Draw (previously MDL Draw). The add-ins calculate physical properties, generate IUPAC nomenclature and predict NMR chemical shifts. Researchers can now increase the power and potential of this popular chemical drawing tool while generating and storing relevant data within the Symyx Isentris environment.
The Symyx Draw calculator add-ins enable researchers to calculate molecular properties such as pKa, logD, logP and solubility, generate IUPAC names and predict 13C NMR and 1H NMR chemical shifts and coupling constants, as well as 2D NMR spectra without leaving the Isentris environment, resulting in smoother workflows and increased productivity. Bioconcentration factor, adsorption coefficient and boiling point calculators round out the suite of available tools.
ACD/Labs Name, PhysChem and NMR predictors are recognized as industry-standard tools in the life sciences and chemicals industries. The outstanding accuracy of the prediction algorithms has been refined over more than 12 years of continuous development by ACD/Labs.
“It has made a lot of sense to combine our strengths,” said Val Kulkov, CEO of ACD/Labs. “We are partnering with Symyx to provide integrated solutions that offer researchers chemical naming and spectral and physicochemical property predictions out-of-the-box with Isentris.”
“Symyx’s partnership with ACD/Labs has resulted in a high-value win for our mutual customers,” said Timothy Campbell, President of Symyx Software. “Integrating ACD/Labs applications into Symyx Draw promotes a powerful set of tools from a valued partner while improving the day-to-day efficiency and productivity of researchers. This important development illustrates how Symyx partners are bringing interesting and valuable functionality to researchers.”
Go to www.acdlabs.com/mdldraw to request a no-charge download of the ACD/Labs add-ins.
See how easy it is to extend Symyx Draw with functionality that meets your needs. Sign up for an informative Web Seminar entitled “ACD/Labs and MDL Draw: Adding scientific calculators to premier drawing tool,” which will be jointly hosted by Symyx and ACD/Labs on October 30, 2007. Visit www.mdl.com/webinars for additional details and times.
In addition to the above ACD/Labs add-ins, other calculators available at no charge from within Symyx Draw include: simple structure-to-InChI, InChI-to-structure and SMILES-to-structure conversion tools; a ‘Calculate-as-you-draw’ add-in that calculates structural properties on-the-fly using Symyx Cheshire scripts; a Bioavailability add-in that uses Cheshire to calculate properties and plot them using a third-party .NET graphing control; an Isotopomer Distribution add-in that predicts molecular ion peaks using Cheshire and the same high-performance graphing control; and a Send-to-DiscoveryGate add-in that enables researchers to conduct DiscoveryGate searches from within Symyx Draw. Go to www.mdl.com/support/developer/mdl-draw to download any of the additional Symyx Draw add-ins and sample code at no charge.
About Symyx
Symyx Technologies, Inc. is an 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. Information about Symyx, including reports and other information filed by Symyx with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at www.symyx.com.
About Advanced Chemistry Development
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is a chemistry software company offering solutions that truly integrate chemical structures with analytical chemistry information to produce ChemAnalytics®. ACD/Labs creates innovative software packages that aid chemical research scientists worldwide with spectroscopic validation of structures, elucidation of unknown substances, chromatographic separation, medicinal chemistry, preformulation of novel drug agents, systematic nomenclature generation, and chemical patenting and publication. Combined, ACD/Labs’ solutions create an analytical informatics system that provides dramatic feed-forward effects on the chemical and pharmaceutical research process. Founded in 1994, and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, ACD/Labs employs a team of over 145 dedicated individuals whose continual efforts carry ACD/Labs’ innovative technologies into pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and materials companies throughout the world. Information about Advanced Chemistry Development and its products is available at www.acdlabs.com.
Symyx, MDL, Isentris, DiscoveryGate and Cheshire are registered trademarks of Symyx Technologies, Inc. ChemAnalytics is a registered trademark of Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.
