Symyx Launches Research Services For Life Sciences

Symyx Technologies, Inc. has announced the launch of its new client-directed and collaborative research services for Life Sciences. These services allow clients to access Symyx's installed base of parallel experimentation and testing capabilities through packaged offerings for solubility studies, polymorph screening, salt selection, co-crystallization, API stability in liquid and solid formulations, excipient compatibility, organic synthesis and process optimization.

Symyx recently signed a one-year agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company for the use of Symyx Research Services for solubility studies. Under terms of the agreement, Symyx will perform solubility studies for Bristol-Myers Squibb through until May, 2009.

"Symyx Research is continuing to transform its offerings into packaged, smaller scope and easily accessible solutions. Symyx Research Services combines our industry-leading research capabilities with real-time data analysis to deliver results on demand, freeing companies from internal capability constraints while substantially reducing the cost of R&D," said Richard Boehner, President of Symyx Research. "We are pleased to enter this agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb to provide solubility research services which will help them achieve a greater level of R&D efficiency."

Symyx Research Services offer considerable program flexibility with contracts ranging from a single experiment screen up to tens-of-thousands of experiments per year. Customer also benefit from access to Symyx's capability to execute and analyse hundreds of experiments quickly and to deliver results in days not months. Symyx Research Services provides greater experimental insight through development of more comprehensive data sets through automated parallel experimentation than can be achieved through traditional manual processes. Symyx Research Services also provide seamless replication of data and results to an existing customer-managed Symyx database and dynamic access to data sets using Symyx Software which allows evaluation of full and raw data sets not static PDF reports.

Symyx Technologies, Inc. is the scientific R&D integration partner to companies in the life sciences, chemicals, energy, electronics and consumer products industries. With scientific R&D under tremendous economic and technical pressure, we help companies reduce R&D risk and enhance R&D productivity to help them bring more and better products to market quickly and cost-effectively. Our integrated technology platform combines electronic laboratory notebooks, content, laboratory logistics and analysis available from Symyx Software, software-driven integrated workflows available from Symyx Tools and collaborative research and directed services from Symyx Research to support the entire R&D process.

SOURCE: Symyx Technologies, Inc.