Scientists Can Access Detailed Chemical Information Free of Charge On Their iPhone or iPod touch
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 23, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) today announced its ChemMobi App is now available for free on the App Store. ChemMobi gives on-the-go scientists access to over 30 million chemical structures, chemical properties, suppliers and other information in the Symyx databases directly on their iPhone or iPod touch.
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"ChemMobi is a useful and convenient tool for chemists, biochemists, and anyone else interested in accessing chemical structures and associated information while on the move," said Dr. Trevor Heritage, president of Symyx Software. "By integrating mobile communications with new chemical information services from Symyx, we've opened up exciting opportunities for scientists to receive immediate answers to their chemistry questions, no matter where they are."
"The ChemMobi App puts rich information resources right into the palm of the chemist's hand," said Dr. Antony Williams, vice president, strategic development, Royal Society of Chemistry. "The integration of ChemSpider with Symyx technology for iPhone and iPod touch is an ideal mesh of capabilities for facilitating easy access to free chemistry content."
Powered by DiscoveryGate Web Service (DGWS) and ChemSpider Search, ChemMobi provides access to over 30 million chemical structures, enabling chemists to search for Chemical Names or IDs and quickly retrieve associated information including chemical structures, calculated properties, commercial availability from over 860 suppliers, synonyms, and material safety data sheet summaries from ChemADVISOR.
The ChemMobi App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.
About Symyx
Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) enables companies in life sciences, chemicals and energy, and consumer and industrial products to transform scientific R&D and achieve extraordinary breakthroughs in productivity and return on investment. Symyx scientific information management enables scientists to design, execute, analyze, and report experimental results faster, more easily, and less expensively. Symyx microscale, parallel experimentation enables a single scientist to rapidly explore a broad experimental space and develop comprehensive data sets in days -- not weeks or months. Symyx contract research delivers these advantages on a project basis and enables companies to increase R&D productivity, agility, and flexibility. Information about Symyx, including reports and other information filed by Symyx with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at www.symyx.com.
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