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News Release from: Symyx Technologies | Subject: Symyx ACD Web Service
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 30 October 2007
Content web service launched by Symyx
Using this new web service, research organisations can update internal data sources and deliver data directly to scientists using in-house applications that integrate with existing workflows
Researchers using Symyx Available Chemicals Directory (previously MDL Available Chemicals Directory or MDL ACD), the largest structure-searchable collection of commercially available chemicals in the world, now have the option of accessing up-to-date ACD data via the internet using a dedicated XML-based web service The Symyx ACD web service was developed with design input from a global pharmaceutical R+D organisation seeking business process efficiencies and a simplified mechanism for distributing dynamically updated chemical sourcing data to globally dispersed project teams
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 19 Jul 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The ACD Web Service from Symyx accelerates R+D by dynamically injecting real-time chemical sourcing data into the R+D process," said Timothy Campbell, president of Symyx Software.
Used by more scientists than any other supplier database worldwide, Symyx ACD contains more than 605,000 structures representing approximately 1.7 million products and 3.4 million packages available for purchase, in bulk and research quantities.
The database can be searched by structure and substance identifiers to retrieve all available data.
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