Senomyx, Inc. is in the business of discovering, developing,and commercializing flavor ingredients for the packaged food, beverage, and ingredient supply industries using proprietary taste receptor-based assays and screening technologies. Using proprietary taste receptor technologies to discover and develop novel flavor ingredients, the company focuses on the discovery, development, and/or commercialization of flavor ingredients through five programs focused on sweet, savory, bitter, cooling, and salt taste areas. These include new flavors such as Savory Flavors and Cooling Flavors, as well as flavor modulators such as Bitter Blockers and enhancers of Sweet and Salt tastes. Senomyx is also engaged in a new effort to discover and develop natural high-potency sweeteners. The firm licenses flavor ingredients to its collaborators on an exclusive or co-exclusive basis and has has product discovery, development, and commercialization collaborative agreements with Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Firmenich SA, Nestlé SA, and PepsiCo, Inc
