Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:
SMMX) today announced the release of the DiscoveryGate® Web Service.
By providing programmable access to the DiscoveryGate content platform, this
new service accelerates scientific workflows, decision making, and productivity
in R+D by giving scientists 24/7 access to current chemical sourcing, molecular
property, synthetic methodology, bioactivity, and toxicology information from
Symyx and participating content providers.
"DiscoveryGate Web Service provides platform-independent, remotely-hosted
scientific content for direct consumption by our customers' internal applications
and services, as well as Symyx software applications," said Dr. Trevor
Heritage, president of Symyx Software. "For the first time, we are realizing
the promise of the content-in-context approach -- saving time, reducing total
cost of ownership, and facilitating informed decisions by routing real-time
information directly to in-house applications already in use by scientists."
DiscoveryGate Web Service builds upon the successful 2007 deployment of the
Symyx Available Chemicals Directory (ACD) Web Service at major research-based
biomedical and pharmaceutical companies. Symyx ACD Web Service is enabling more
than 6,000 scientists worldwide to access Available Chemicals Directory using
more than 20 in-house applications.
In addition to delivering Symyx Discovery, Synthesis, Pharmacology, and Sourcing
content to customers for use in their own in-house applications, the DiscoveryGate
Web Service also provides a content platform for delivering context-relevant
information to Symyx Notebook, the Symyx Isentris® data access, analysis,
and decision support system, and to the next generation of the DiscoveryGate
content platform currently in development.
The DiscoveryGate Web Service is part of a growing collection of Symyx workflow
solutions available to researchers today. For more information about the DiscoveryGate
Web Service and other workflow and content solutions, visit http://www.symyx.com/products/software/database-access/web-services/index.jsp
or contact inforequest@symyx.com.
Posted March 26th, 2009
