Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced the launch of hosted informatics software for researchers working in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries and academia. The new hosted offerings, to be accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model, will seek to combine Symyx software with data archiving capabilities in a secure data hosting and communications facility. The hosted informatics environment is projected to enable more R&D organisations to benefit from scientific software by reducing the requirements for IT infrastructure and resources, lowering the total cost of ownership and accelerating ELN deployment.
Initially, Symyx Notebook is being made available as a hosted electronic lab notebook (ELN) service enabling medicinal chemists, synthetic chemists and biologists to manage, explore, share and reuse experimental information and intellectual property (IP). Using a hosted ELN service, R&D organisations can deploy and leverage the electronic notebook quickly and efficiently without added IT infrastructure and resources while collaborating more effectively with partners, according to Symyx.
In developing the hosted ELN service, Symyx is seen to leverage its operational experience with the DiscoveryGate content platform. DiscoveryGate has been delivering hosted scientific information from millions of publications to hundreds of companies worldwide for over seven years. The software hosting experience is expected to position Symyx to manage compound registration, inventory, work request and ELN systems successfully in a secure hosted environment.
The hosted informatics infrastructure provided by Symyx will be supported by Switch Communications Group L.L.C., an information storage and protection services firm.
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