Information management systems provider Symyx Technologies, Inc., US, has announced that it has joined the Pistoia Alliance, a non-profit group that promotes collaboration to streamline non-competitive elements of pharmaceutical and life science discovery workflows. The alliance was initially formed by global pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and AstraZeneca.
Symyx is participating in the Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) Query Services Working Group. The group, over time, expects to create and release industry standard definitions, a search application programming interface (API), and a service specification for accessing and reporting ELN information. These cooperative efforts are projected to provide for the current and future digital information needs of Symyx customers. They are also expected to help establish a set of standard industry use cases that will align life sciences customers and vendors around the challenges of working with information throughout the discovery process.
As a participating member of the Pistoia Alliance, Symyx will collaborate on helping companies increase the value of research information by enabling searching and reporting across the groups, domains and systems involved in research projects. It is observed that in today's cost-driven R&D environment, companies realise that working together to capture and discuss emerging ideas can be mutually beneficial.
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