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[July 24, 2008]

Symyx Launches Research Services for Life Sciences

(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SANTA CLARA, CA, July 24 / MARKET WIRE/ --

Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMX)
announced today the launch of its new client-directed and collaborative
research services for Life Sciences. These services allow clients to access
Symyx's installed base of parallel experimentation and testing capabilities
through packaged offerings for solubility studies, polymorph screening,
salt selection, co-crystallization, API stability in liquid and solid
formulations, excipient compatibility, organic synthesis and process
optimization.

Symyx recently signed a one-year agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb
Company (NYSE: BMY) for the use of Symyx Research Services for solubility
studies. Under terms of the agreement, Symyx will perform solubility
studies for Bristol-Myers Squibb through May, 2009.

"Symyx Research is continuing to transform its offerings into packaged,
smaller scope and easily accessible solutions. Symyx Research Services
combines our industry-leading research capabilities with real-time data
analysis to deliver results on demand, freeing companies from internal
capability constraints while substantially reducing the cost of R&D," said
Richard Boehner, President of Symyx Research. "We are pleased to enter this
agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb to provide solubility research services
which will help them achieve a greater level of R&D efficiency."

The benefits of Symyx Research Services include:

-- Program flexibility: contract from a single experiment screen up to
tens-of-thousands of experiments per year.
-- Access to experiment capability to execute and analyze hundreds of
experiments to deliver results in days not months.
-- Greater experimental insight through development of more comprehensive
data sets through automated parallel experimentation than can be achieved
through traditional manual processes.
-- Seamless replication of data and results to an existing customer-
managed Symyx database.
-- Dynamic access to data sets using Symyx Software which allows
evaluation of full and raw data sets not static PDF reports.


For more information on Symyx Research visit:
www.symyx.com/research/lifesciences

About Symyx

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. Our integrated technology platform combines
electronic laboratory notebooks, content, laboratory logistics and analysis
available from Symyx Software, software-driven integrated workflows
available from Symyx Tools and collaborative research and directed services
from Symyx Research to support the entire R&D process. Information about
Symyx, including reports and other information filed by Symyx with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at www.symyx.com.

Symyx is a registered trademark of Symyx Technologies, Inc. All rights
reserved. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property
of their respective owners.

For more information:
Derek Brookmeyer
Racepoint Group on behalf of Symyx Technologies, Inc.
(415) 694-6702Email Contact

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