- Symyx Technologies
Infobox_Company | company_name = Symyx Technologies
company_
company_type = Public (NASDAQ|SMMX)
foundation =1994
location =Santa Clara, CA USA
key_people =Isy Goldwasser , CEO
Steven D. Goldby , Executive Chairman
Rex S. Jackson , Executive Vice President and General Counsel
W. Henry Weinberg Ph.D. , Executive Vice President and CTO
Richard Boehner , Executive Vice President, Chemicals and Energy
industry = Life Sciences; Chemical and Energy and Performance; Materials and Consumer Products
products = Electronic lab notebook and R&D execution and analysis software, lab automation and breakthrough materials technology
num_employees = 400
homepage = [http://www.symyx.com/ www.symyx.com] |Symyx Technologies NASDAQ|SMMX is a pioneer in the area of
combinatorial chemistry applied toheterogeneous catalysis andhomogeneous catalysis ,polymer formulations, electronic and magnetic materials.Symyx offers high-speed combinatorial technologies for the discovery of new materials. Using proprietary technologies - including instruments, software and methods - enabled Symyx to generate hundreds to thousands of unique materials at a time and screen those materials rapidly and automatically for desired properties. This approach can deliver results hundreds to thousands of times faster than traditional research methods, at a fraction of the cost. [cite web|url=http://www.healthtech.com/news/strategic_briefings/2007/Symyx.asp |title= Symyx Technologies & Pharmaceutical R&D: A Synergistic Combo |date=2007, July]
Symyx is applying this technology to revolutionize materials discovery in the life sciences, chemical, and electronics industries. Founded in 1994 by Dr.
Alejandro Zaffaroni and Dr.Peter Schultz , Symyx' conceptual basis draws fromAffymax , Inc. andAffymetrix , Inc., which commercialized the use of high-speed combinatorial methods forpharmaceutical and genetic research, respectively. [cite web|url=http://www.sma-digital.com/sma/200703/?pg=14 |title=Automated Research: Not just for pharma |date=2007, April] Symyx screens about a million materials a year and has produced a product pipeline with several materials that have the potential to be commercialized in the next few years. Examples of their discovery efforts include X-ray storage phosphors for radiography, polymers to speed DNA research and catalysts for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and plastics.In 2007 Symyx Technologies acquired MDL Information Systems, a provider of R&D informatics in the life sciences and chemicals industries, which was launched as a computer-aided drug design firm (originally named Molecular Design Limited, Inc.) in January 1978 in Hayward, CA. In 2008, Symyx sold the OHS business of MDL to
ChemADVISOR , Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Recent innovations include:
* An enterprise electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) capable of supporting multiple scientific disciplines ( [http://www.mdl.com/products/experiment/symyx_notebook Symyx Notebook] , 2008)
References
External links
* [http://www.symyx.com/ Official website]
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