Symyx Technologies to Launch New Symyx Discovery Tools Module at AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition
Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) announced today that Symyx scientists will be introducing the new Symyx Discovery Tools(R) Extended Core Module (XCM) at the 2005 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meeting and Exposition this week in Nashville, TN. The next generation XCM platform is a highly flexible, multi-arm, 3-axis robot which enhances the ability of customers to easily configure workflows in the field to meet their specific chemistry needs.
Symyx representatives will be giving demonstrations of the XCM at booth #1428, as well as showing Symyx’s Renaissance(R) Software, including software automation of the XCM and Symyx’s electronic laboratory notebook software. Symyx scientists will also demonstrate the Symyx Discovery Tools PPR(R), which accelerates catalyst research, and Eric Carlson of Symyx Technologies will be presenting a poster entitled “Automation of Batch Record Generation.”
Paul Nowak, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Symyx, said, “The introduction of the XCM marks an important advance in our Discovery Tools, enabling our Discovery Tools to provide the same flexibility we offer in software: both can now be readily adapted to meet the tailored, specific needs of our customers.”
Symyx Discovery Tools provides scientists in pharmaceutical development and in chemical and energy research organizations with the ability to use Symyx’s proprietary automated instruments to accelerate research by performing 10-100 experiments at a time. Discovery Tools automate entire research workflows, including areas such as liquid formulations, polymorph screening, process optimization and forced degradation. Symyx first introduced modularization of its Discovery Tools in January, 2004 with its CORE(x)(TM) workflow. By modularizing these systems, customers were able to get started with Symyx Discovery Tools through the purchase of a central, standardized robotic platform. Customers could then extend their workflows by adding additional synthesis or analytical modules over time. Through its unique architecture, the XCM extends the modular approach to the central robotic platform, allowing scientists to add unique functionality to the deck or arms through self-contained elements.
About Symyx Discovery Tools
Symyx Discovery Tools offers automated, integrated workflow systems to enable researchers to make better decisions in a shorter timeframe, resulting in increased research effectiveness and improved results. These systems fully integrate Symyx’s high-throughput instrumentation with Symyx’s Renaissance(R) Software to allow customers to easily and seamlessly design and automate experiments, and to capture, analyze, and mine data. By combining faster experimentation with highly integrated data management, Symyx Discovery Tools can increase research productivity as much as 100-fold. Symyx Discovery Tools are used by a broad range of customers worldwide, including Amgen, Astellas, Boehringer Ingelheim, the Dow Chemical Company, Eli Lilly & Co., ExxonMobil, Pfizer Inc., Merck & Co., and Sumitomo Chemicals.
About Symyx Software
Symyx Renaissance Software creates an enterprise-wide solution to unify a customer’s research and development organization around a single system to solve critical issues for scientists, management, IT and IP. Key aspects of Symyx’s software include:
— Intelligent electronic laboratory notebooks providing IP protection and project data management with tailored, user-specific offerings for medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical development, and chemical R&D
— Experimental design and integrated data capture spanning conventional and automated research
— Laboratory automation for automated and high-throughput research
— Enterprise-wide real time data warehousing, querying and reporting to support scientific decision-making
Over 40 organizations around the world use Symyx software, including some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical companies.
About Symyx
Symyx Technologies, Inc. is dedicated to helping customers maximize the effectiveness and success of their research & development programs. Symyx develops and applies high-throughput research technologies and research software for customers in the pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, electronics and other industries. Symyx performs research for customers using proprietary technologies to discover new and innovative materials, sells automated high-throughput instrumentation and licenses software for use in customers’ own laboratories, and licenses discovered materials, sensors and intellectual property. Symyx has the largest portfolio of patents in the field of high-throughput materials discovery, with 280 issued patents and 370 patent applications on file worldwide. Information about Symyx, including reports and other information filed by Symyx with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at www.symyx.com .
