Symyx Technologies Launches Content Web Service

Santa Clara, CA - Symyx Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that researchers using Symyx Available Chemicals Directory (previously MDL Available Chemicals Directory or MDL ACD), the largest structure-searchable collection of commercially available chemicals in the world, now have the option of accessing up-to-date ACD data via the Internet using a dedicated XML-based Web Service. The Symyx ACD Web Service was developed with design input from a global pharmaceutical R&D organization seeking business process efficiencies and a simplified mechanism for distributing dynamically updated chemical sourcing data to globally dispersed project teams.

"The ACD Web Service from Symyx accelerates R&D by dynamically injecting real-time chemical sourcing data into the R&D process," said Timothy Campbell, President of Symyx Software. "Using this new Web Service, research organizations can update internal data sources and deliver sourcing data directly to scientists using in-house-developed applications that integrate with existing laboratory workflows."

Used by more scientists than any other supplier database worldwide, Symyx ACD contains more than 605,000 structures representing approximately 1.7 million products and 3.4 million packages available for purchase, in bulk and research quantities. The database can be searched by structure and substance identifiers to retrieve all available data.

The ACD Web Service is part of a growing new generation of Symyx workflow tools available to researchers today. For more information about the Symyx ACD Web Service and other workflow and content solutions, visit www.mdl.com.

SOURCE: Symyx Technologies, Inc