Symyx Technologies has released the latest edition of Molecular Connection: a free-subscription print magazine that discusses how scientists are coping in today's research-and-development environment.
Published twice a year, Molecular Connection features customers and Symyx staff discussing the technology, issues and implementations that drive modern research and development.
The spring 2009 issue showcases the impact that Symyx's technology can have on research processes.
In the feature story, Eli Lilly and Company describes its long-term partnership with Symyx to build a single platform electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) across its organisation.
A case study describes how informatics has also assisted Boehringer Ingelheim in making pharmacological and toxicological data locked in Microsoft Excel easier to compare and share.
Using Symyx Assay Explorer with existing custom systems, Boehringer Ingelheim has created a predefined framework that improves throughput and has enabled the company to leverage ADME data, thereby enhancing its research pipeline support.
Most research-and-development companies consider automated powder dispensing to be a 'nice-to-have' technology, according to Symyx.
Deployed effectively, the technology can significantly improve the accuracy and throughput of workflows and even determine whether companies meet business goals or fall behind their competition.
Two different companies - Sigma Aldrich and Aptuit, both with a need to rapidly package chemicals - discuss the considerable benefits that they have gained from implementing Symyx Powdernium automated powder dispensing technology in their organisations.
A final profile describes how high-throughput experimentation is influencing a new generation of scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California.
