January 7, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMX) announced the release of Symyx Notebook 6.4., offering scientists improved support for method development, validation and execution in regulated and non-regulated analytical labs.

This latest release of Symyx’s electronic lab notebook offers new cross-experiment referencing and reporting capabilities that improve collaborative workflows for multidisciplinary teams working in the life sciences, chemicals, energy and consumer products industries.

Symyx Notebook 6.4 offers the following feature upgrades:

 * Of special interest to biologists – A new spreadsheet section that enables cell-by-cell auditing, import/export of Excel workbooks and inline editing/graphing capabilities

 * Enhanced capabilities for creating and executing structured recipes and procedures

 * Improved support for sample preparations with auto-generated procedure text and calculations for dilutions and replicates

 * Advanced cross-section referencing capabilities with the ability to retrieve section data for a selected set of samples

 * New cross-experiment reporting using standard report templates

 * Improved form searching with property searches spanning table sections, forms and recipes

Symyx Notebook continues to provide productivity improvements for scientists by capturing the science they do in the lab, enabling them to readily optimize, share and repurpose information to increase productivity in TODAY’s electronic lab. A single, shared notebook enables scientists to work more efficiently by instantly accessing a variety of techniques, instrumentation, software and information while also fully leveraging the experimental methodologies and results of colleagues.

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.

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