Symyx Technologies has announced the Symyx Notebook, an enterprise electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) configured to meet the needs of biologists and analytical chemists.
The company said the Symyx Notebook simplifies laboratory operations and lowers costs by enabling research and development organisations to replace multiple discipline-specific ELNs with a single, multi-discipline application that is deployable across the enterprise.
By enabling research groups to configure, deploy and fine-tune discipline-specific templates out of the box, Symyx Notebook accelerates laboratory workflows and improves research and development productivity.
Symyx Notebook includes a full software developer kit that permits creation of custom functionality and extensions including incorporation of third-party software.
It also provides consistency and streamlined editing of experiments with the ability to create different experiment templates spanning multiple scientific disciplines.
Searching and browsing is enabled via full-text searching of data-entry forms, experiments, embedded files and annotations.
Boolean searching of data-entry forms quickly narrows result sets.
Symyx Notebook also offers the ability to drag-and-drop files and annotate experimental data and images.
The ELN is Citrix compatible eliminating the need to install applications on researchers' desktops, facilitating remote access and enabling operation with Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux operating systems.
New functionality and third-party add-ins can be downloaded from the server when needed.
Symyx Notebook uses the Symyx Vault document management platform.
This supports document browsing and searching, 21CFR11-compliant electronic signatures and audit trails, enterprise-level security and configurable, flexible document workflows with secure versioning for single- and multi-site deployments of all sizes.
