Symyx Notebook Speeds Up R&D

3 Mar 2011
bridget bridget
Laboratory Director

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Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced the release of version 6.6 of the Symyx Notebook by Accelrys.

The latest release of the multi-disciplinary electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) offers out-of-the box integration with the Accelrys Pipeline Pilot™ Enterprise R&D Platform.

The release also offers new capabilities for rapidly and efficiently designing and documenting chemical and biological formulations. In addition, it provides a new, built-in data source connection, making it easier for scientists to connect Accelrys ELN experiment repositories with Accelrys Isentris® decision support software.

Quote: “Making Pipeline Pilot available to scientists from within the Accelrys ELN delivers powerful process and data insights that enhance lab innovation and productivity,” said Dr. Frank Brown, senior VP and chief science officer at Accelrys. “Customers can now extend the notebook with over 3,500 validated scientific components, improving scientific workflows and speeding data retrieval and manipulation, computational filtering, visualization, reporting and other critical tasks. This is a great example of how the synergistic combination of Accelrys and Symyx informatics offerings in our new unified Enterprise R&D Architecture brings unique and remarkable value to scientists today.”

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