Symyx Benchtop System Receives New Product Award at LabAutomation2007 Conference.Benchtop System Recognized by the ALA as One of the Best New Products for 2007 CHICAGO & SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) and Symyx Technologies Symyx Technologies NASDAQ: SMMX is a pioneer in the area of combinatorial chemistry applied to heterogeneous catalysis and homogeneous catalysis, polymer formulations, electronic and magnetic materials. , Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) today announced that Symyx has been awarded the ALA's New Product Award (NPA (1) (Numbering Plan Area) The Bellcore/Telcordia telephone area code system in use in the U.S., Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and islands in the Caribbean. See NPA code. (2) (Network Professional Association, San Diego, CA, www.npanet. ) Designation at this year's LabAutomation conference. Symyx received the award for its Benchtop System, a new self-contained unit that combines powder- and liquid-handling capabilities and automates multiple steps of experimental procedures. The ALA's New Product Award showcases the laboratory automation industry's finest new products, software and services. Symyx is one of three recipients selected from more than 35 new products launched at this year's LabAutomation conference in Palm Springs, Calif, held January 27-31. "It is a significant achievement to receive the 2007 ALA New Product Award, especially in light of the intense and wide ranging competition for the NPA Designation at this year's conference," said ALA Executive Director Greg Dummer. "Our objective with this award is to showcase the industry's finest new products and services. Thus, the scoring criteria included breadth of market breadth of market The underlying strength of stock market movements in an upward or a downward direction. Determining breadth of market is important to technical analysts when they forecast whether a given market movement is likely to persist. opportunity, impact on the field of laboratory automation and technology, extraordinary technical originality and quality of support data. This award affirms Symyx's position as an innovator in the field of laboratory instrumentation and informatics Same as information technology and information systems. The term is more widely used in Europe. ." Benchtop Systems increase testing capacity by 10-100 times and take labor-intensive, repetitive work away from scientists, freeing them to better utilize their training and talents. Symyx's Benchtop System packages the power of automation to enable the parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. of multiple experimental procedures on one system. It utilizes the hardware framework of Symyx's Core Module, and includes miniaturized materials preparation capabilities (dispensing capabilities for low viscosity aqueous aqueous /aque·ous/ (a´kwe-us) 1. watery; prepared with water. 2. see under humor. a·que·ous adj. and organic solutions, viscous viscous /vis·cous/ (vis´kus) sticky or gummy; having a high degree of viscosity. vis·cous adj. 1. Having relatively high resistance to flow. 2. Viscid. semi-solids, and powder materials), sample processing capabilities (heating, cooling, mixing, and filtration), and sample analysis capabilities (weights, pH, imaging) - all combined with automated instrument control. The offering is powered by Symyx Software, providing a single experiment design and execution environment that reduces instrumentation set-up and data-handling overhead. The system hardware and software are scaleable to perform automated experimentation for complete lab processes which would include integration with lab equipment and the ability to support document browsing and searching, enterprise-level security and auditing, and configurable document workflow. "We are honored to receive industry acknowledgment acknowledgment, in law, formal declaration or admission by a person who executed an instrument (e.g., a will or a deed) that the instrument is his. The acknowledgment is made before a court, a notary public, or any other authorized person. for our efforts," said Paul Nowak, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Symyx. "LabAutomation was the right place to launch this new product because our new Benchtop System addresses the needs of scientists who want to leverage advances in automation and data integration to make best use of their time and improve R&D productivity." About Symyx Symyx Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of R&D execution and innovation for the chemicals, energy, life sciences, consumer products and other industries. Symyx develops and applies high-throughput research technologies and research software for customers. We provide collaborative research services, electronic lab notebook An electronic lab notebook (also known as Electronic Laboratory Notebook, or ELN) is a software program designed to replace paper laboratory notebooks. Lab notebooks in general are used by scientists and technicians to document research, experiments and procedures performed in a and scientific decision-support software and instruments to integrate and automate laboratory experimentation Psychology has adapted the principles of positivist research to develop a wide range of laboratory-based approaches to research. Typically, such research seeks to test a hypothesis in controlled circumstances. . We work with customers to speed and improve research, discovery and development of new products and processes. Symyx has over 325 issued patents and 320 patent applications on file worldwide protecting our methods, discoveries, instruments and software. Information about Symyx, including reports and other information filed by Symyx with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at www.symyx.com. About the Association for Laboratory Automation The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) is a worldwide organization representing leaders in all aspects of laboratory automation. ALA seeks to provide a greater understanding of the importance and value of automation technologies in the laboratory setting, to advance science and promote education related to laboratory automation by encouraging the study, advancing the science and improving the practice of medical and laboratory automation. The ALA's LabAutomation conference is a five-day event bringing together laboratory automation business leaders and scientists from around the globe in conjunction with the world's largest exhibition of laboratory technologies. |
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