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Symyx Adds Chemistry to KNIME Open-Source Pipelining Software
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SANTA CLARA, CA, October 15 / MARKET WIRE/ --
Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMX)
today announced the release of version 1.0 of Symyx Chemistry Extensions
for KNIME. The Symyx Chemistry Extensions enhance KNIME's open-source,
no-fee data pipelining software with Symyx's high-value, industry-leading
chemistry capabilities. This enables R&D organizations to deliver low-cost,
agile chemistry extensions and services supporting scientific workflows.
"Our chemistry users have said that making KNIME workflows accessible to
Symyx chemistry technology was high on their wish list, and we are excited
that Symyx is now partnering with KNIME to offer this functionality," said
Prof. Michael Berthold, CEO KNIME.com GmbH.
"By extending KNIME pipelining software to include Symyx chemistry
capabilities, we now offer customers a low-cost entry into data pipelining
with the highest quality chemistry. Our customers can rapidly assemble data
pipelining workflows with ease, mixing and matching Symyx chemistry with
useful tools and calculators from third-party sources," said Dr. Trevor
Heritage, President of Symyx Software. "Customers can rapidly deploy
best-of-breed data pipelining workflows powered by the Symyx chemistry
engine without incurring the high license costs typically associated with
commercial pipelining software."
Examples of Symyx Chemistry Extensions for KNIME include reaction-based
enumeration, stereoenumeration, specific enumeration, and Rgroup
decomposition. Chemistry-specific extensions like these offer chemists an
intuitive, graphical means of constructing sophisticated workflows for use
when repetitively processing and reporting data. These workflows can be
re-used to streamline the processing of data through the KNIME user
interface. Alternatively, the workflows can be integrated into an existing
application or a service.
Symyx's reaction-based enumeration extension enumerates libraries of
structures from a generic reaction and a set of reactants. The
stereoenumeration extension takes a structure containing stereogenic
centers and enumerates it to all the discrete stereoisomers contained
within the structure. The specific enumeration extension enumerates a
generic structure into a library of specifics. The Rgroup decomposition
extension converts a scaffold and a collection of specifics into a generic.
The Symyx Chemistry Extensions for KNIME use the industry-standard Symyx
Cheshire? 4.1.1 chemical scripting language and prototyping environment.
The 4.1.1 release of Cheshire provides improved performance with Oracle?
databases; supports polymers, mixtures, and formulations; and handles
generic structures to better meet the needs of researchers in the chemicals
and consumer products industries. Symyx Chemistry Extensions for KNIME is
distributed under the Aladdin 'no charge' public license. To fully utilize
the product, customers require a license for Symyx Cheshire software.
Symyx Chemistry Extensions for KNIME 1.0 is available now. For more
information, visit www.symyx.com/knime or contact inforequest@symyx.com.
About KNIME
KNIME is a modular, open-source, extensible data exploration platform that
enables chemists to create visual data pipelines where each step is
pictorially represented as a node in the workflow. Users can selectively
execute analysis steps and investigate results using interactive views of
both data and models. Using the KNIME platform, scientists can integrate
various information resources and software applications from different
vendors into multi-step workflows supporting rich scientific analytics and
improved decision making. KNIME was developed by the group of Prof. Michael
Berthold at the University of Konstanz, Germany and will be maintained and
continue to be developed by this group and KNIME.com GmbH, Zurich,
Switzerland. For more information, visit www.knime.org.
About Symyx
Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMX) enables global leaders in life
sciences, chemicals and energy, and consumer and industrial products to
optimize and accelerate their scientific research and development. Through
its expertise in scientific informatics management, workflow optimization,
and micro-scale, parallel experimentation, Symyx helps companies transform
their R&D operations to minimize the time their scientists spend on
routine, repetitive tasks and to maximize their return on R&D investments.
Symyx software, tools, and research services enable scientists to design,
execute, analyze, and report experimental results faster, easier, and less
expensively. Information about Symyx, including reports and other
information filed by Symyx with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is
available at www.symyx.com.
Symyx and Cheshire are registered trademarks of Symyx Technologies, Inc.
All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of the Oracle
Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks
mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.
Raymond Deplazes
Racepoint Group on behalf of Symyx Technologies, Inc.
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