Accelrys Announces Enhanced Versions Of Three Accord Cheminformatics Products

San Diego, CA, March 24 2003

Accelrys, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacopeia, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCOP), today announced three new product releases in its cheminformatics range. Combined with the recent release of Accord Enterprise Informatics, the comprehensive solution for managing chemical and biological data, these new versions demonstrate Accelrys’ strong commitment to developing and supporting new and improved cheminformatics tools.

The latest releases are of Accord SDK 5.3, Accord Inventory 2.2 and Accord HTS 5.2. These versions offer further integration within the product line and numerous productivity enhancements. Accord products use a best-of-breed approach offering an advanced, standards-based, accurate, and versatile way to deal with chemical and biological information.

Accord SDK 5.3 allows chemical software developers to rapidly create customized or enhanced applications for tasks such as property prediction, data management and mining in combinatorial chemistry, or database publishing. Users can integrate Accord’s chemical algorithms into best-of-breed in-house or third-party scriptable applications. Enhancements include:

  • More flexibility when searching for variable length molecules, enabling more intelligent query of corporate databases.
  • Improved handling of stereochemistry (the spatial arrangement of molecules), which is often critical to understanding chemical reactions.
  • Support for additional operating systems, increasing the number of hardware platforms that can be used by application developers.
  • A proprietary algorithm to predict ADME (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion) properties, which are vital to ensuring the safe and effective delivery of a drug.

    Accord HTS 5.2 enables data processing and management for plate-based high throughput screening (HTS). It captures data throughout the HTS workflow, from the creation of test plates, through data capture, to rapid analysis and validation and re-queuing of samples for further testing. Accord HTS is part of Accelrys’ Accord Enterprise Informatics suite. Version 5.2 makes full use of Oracle(R) PL/SQL technology, enabling handling of larger datasets. New “wizards” simplify use for novice and occasional users, while existing users will appreciate increased querying flexibility and enhanced reporting.

    Accord Inventory 2.2 provides an efficient solution for managing reagents and compounds in a high-throughput environment. The new version comes with enhanced workflow support that integrates the processing of requests, and a series of specialist tools and “wizards” making it easier to perform key tasks like transferring materials in assay plates, plate replication, creating new assay plates, and accounting of freeze/thaw cycles in inventory lifecycle management.