Symyx Technologies has announced the release of Symyx Notebook 6.2.
The latest release of the enterprise electronic lab notebook (ELN) has new capabilities supporting synthetic and medicinal chemistry investigations.
This has been achieved by adding Symyx chemical representation, chemical reaction and compound registration functionality to the core product.
The Symyx chemistry engine powers the Isis scientific information platform that underlies many chemistry registration, inventory and other systems used in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries.
Symyx Notebook 6.2 adds essential chemistry information, enabling scientists to access current chemical sourcing, molecular property, synthetic methodology, bioactivity, and toxicology information from Symyx and participating content providers in the context of laboratory workflows.
'Symyx Notebook 6.2 offers customers scalable chemistry capabilities, the ability to capture all the data associated with a reaction including transformation details and support for scientific workflows such as compound registration,' said Dr Trevor Heritage, president of Symyx Software.
'The 6.2 release represents a significant milestone in the integration of Symyx and Elsevier MDL product lines.
'Most importantly, the release now enables synthetic chemists, analytical chemists and biologists to collaborate effectively in regulated and non-regulated environments using a single, flexible, enterprise electronic lab notebook,' he added.
With Symyx Notebook 6.2, scientists can rapidly design and share single and multi-step synthesis plans.
For example, scientists designing reaction steps can handle stoichiometry calculations more efficiently by accessing the Symyx Available Chemicals Directory to look up key properties such as molecular formula, molecular weight, density and purity.
Scientists can then use the Symyx Registration service to register purchased or synthesised compounds in a corporate registry.
Finally, scientists can use Symyx Isentris capabilities to explore Notebook-captured reaction information together with Symyx reaction content for improved synthesis speed and success.
Isentris enables scientists to combine notebook-captured and Symyx-provided molecule and reaction information for use in retro-synthetic synthesis planning.
Symyx synthesis databases accelerate synthesis planning by providing access to over six million publicly available reactions.
