SYMYX/MDL
Delivering R&D Productivity through R&D Integration
About Us
Symyx Technologies, Inc. is the scientific R&D integration partner to companies in the life sciences, chemicals, energy, electronics and consumer products industries. With scientific R&D under tremendous economic and technical pressure, we help companies reduce R&D risk and enhance R&D productivity to help them bring more and better products to market quickly and cost-effectively. We developed our software and workflow systems around the premise that our clients want flexibility to grow and evolve as their business requires. Our software platform and modular workflows allow labs to adapt to changing needs while delivering productivity that would be impossible in a traditional laboratory environment. Our integrated technology platform combines Symyx Software (electronic laboratory notebooks, content, laboratory logistics and analysis), Symyx Tools (software-driven integrated workflows) and Research (collaborative research and directed services) to support the entire R&D process.
Integrated Software Solutions
Designed by scientists for scientists, Symyx Software provides a one-source solution for scientific teams to increase the productivity of their labs. Symyx’s powerful platform allows for simple design and execution of experiments, data aggregation, analysis and sharing of information, logistics and decision-support. We designed our user interface around chemists’ protocols and terminology, making the transition to our system seamless. Tailored to our clients’ businesses and research needs, Symyx Software is at work in the world's leading R&D organizations, where it is helping to deliver breakthrough results.
Modular Workflow Solutions
Symyx Tools designs and builds customizable workflows that allow scientific teams to automate complete lab processes and increase testing capacity by 10-100 times. Our modular and scalable systems allow clients to better plan for capital expenditures and to grow and evolve based on business needs, not on lab capabilities. We offer both custom and preconfigured applications, and our basic Benchtop System can be appended to incorporate analytics and become part of a fully integrated workflow.
Research
Bringing together the power of our software systems and proprietary workflows with the skills and experience of our scientists, engineers and software programmers, Symyx Labs works on behalf of our customers to discover and optimize materials. Using traditional methods, a chemist and technician will perform 500 to 1,000 experiments per year. With our proprietary high-throughput technology, we can run 50,000 or more, then use Symyx Software to aggregate and analyze the data. By partnering with Symyx, our customers are finding a fast and cost-effective R&D solution. We work with customers by providing research services, collaborations and partnerships that leverage our significant research assets.
Intellectual Property Licensing
As innovators in the materials field, Symyx is able to selectively license our patents, materials, technology and OEM software. We enable customers to implement initial approaches to high-throughput materials research in their laboratories by licensing certain patents, including our broad methodology patents. We also license materials discovered as a result of our research efforts as well as technologies and software to instrument manufacturers.
Delivering Breakthrough Results
Symyx offers a range of opportunities for companies to access our unique capabilities and achieve breakthrough R&D results. Our scientists, engineers, and software programmers use Symyx Software and Symyx Tools to discover and optimize materials, ensuring that they continue to deliver outstanding results. Whether purchasing a Symyx workflow, licensing software solutions or entering into a research collaboration, companies can be confident that Symyx understands their challenges and needs, because we are at work every day in Symyx Labs developing new catalysts, new formulations and new products.
- Research: Partnering to discover and optimize materials
- Symyx Software: Experiment design, execution and decision-support
- Symyx Tools: Experimentation systems engineered to automate common scientific workflows
- Industry Solutions: Symyx solutions are working for companies in a wide range of industries.


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