Symyx Technologies, Inc. Announces Electronic Laboratory Notebook and LIMS Partnership With Thermo Fisher Scientific

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - March 17, 2009) - Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMX) today announced the signing of a partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (NYSE: TMO). The partnership will focus on delivering to scientists improved workflows meeting their experiment documentation, decision support, and laboratory information management system (LIMS) needs. Symyx and Thermo Fisher Scientific will work closely to integrate applications, and Thermo Fisher will market and sell Symyx Notebook and Symyx Isentris® decision support software with Thermo Scientific industry-leading LIMS across the world.

The two companies will work collaboratively to provide tight areas of integration. The initial focus of the relationship will be to deliver much requested integration between Thermo Scientific Watson LIMS™ and Symyx Notebook systems. The solution will be designed to accelerate the design, execution, analysis, and documentation of biological and bioanalytical workflows. By sharing sample lists, results, and reports, the comprehensive solution will reduce manual transcription and data manipulation that can result in costly, time-consuming processes, laboratory errors, and regulatory compliance issues.

Subsequent program phases will integrate Symyx Notebook with other Thermo Scientific LIMS designed to enhance workflow automation for other industrial sectors such as oil and gas, chemicals, energy, environmental, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical.

"Integration of Symyx Notebook and Isentris with the laboratory automation solutions from Thermo Fisher Scientific will enable us to revolutionize the ways in which people work in the lab," said Dr. Trevor Heritage, president of Symyx Software. "The ability to record and execute experimental protocols, capture results, access and analyze data, build reports and collaborate with colleagues seamlessly will be a big win for scientists. This agreement enables us to realize the true potential of the electronic laboratory notebook -- moving away from paper-based systems and manual integration, to fully electronic, automated laboratory workflows."

"We are excited to be working with Symyx," said David Champagne, vice president and general manager of informatics at Thermo Fisher Scientific. "The informatics landscape is expanding and our customers have been asking for a comprehensive electronic laboratory notebook. Symyx's enterprise solution and willingness to partner made them a natural choice to meet this need. The Isentris decision support platform delivers additional value by enabling scientists to access data captured in their Thermo Scientific LIMS, Symyx Notebook, and other systems -- driving better informed decisions."

Symyx Notebook accelerates productivity, improves collaboration, and lowers costs by replacing multiple discipline-specific electronic lab notebooks with a single, multi-discipline application that is deployable across the enterprise.

The Symyx Isentris data access, analysis, and decision support system drives better collaboration, faster decisions, and more innovative R&D by enabling scientists to leverage corporate, commercial, and local database information in an integrated, self-service research environment.

For more information about other Symyx content and workflow solutions for scientists, visit www.symyx.com or contact inforequest@symyx.com.

About Symyx

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. Symyx scientific information management enables scientists to design, execute, analyze, and report experimental results faster, easier, and less expensively. Symyx microscale, parallel experimentation enables a single scientist to rapidly explore a broad experimental space and develop comprehensive data sets in days -- not weeks or months. Symyx contract research delivers these advantages on a project basis and enables companies to increase R&D productivity, agility, and flexibility. Information about Symyx, including reports and other information filed by Symyx with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at www.symyx.com.

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With annual revenues of $10.5 billion, we have more than 34,000 employees and serve over 350,000 customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental and industrial process control settings. Serving customers through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, we help solve analytical challenges from routine testing to complex research and discovery. Thermo Scientific offers customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments as well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Fisher Scientific provides a complete portfolio of laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies and services used in healthcare, scientific research, safety and education. Together, we offer the most convenient purchasing options to customers and continuously advance our technologies to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, enhance value for customers and fuel growth for shareholders and employees alike. Visit www.thermofisher.com.

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