Accelrys Releases Enhanced Suite of Life Science Modeling and Simulation Tools with Discovery Studio(R) 1.6

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 9, 2006–Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL) announced the shipment of Discovery Studio(R) 1.6, the most recent version of its easy-to-use suite of life science modeling and simulation tools for lead discovery and optimization. Discovery Studio 1.6 includes additional functionality in the areas of structure-based design, protein modeling, simulations, analysis, and visualization. This release also includes the integration of Discovery Studio 1.6 with our open pipelining platform, SciTegic Pipeline Pilot, for automation and extensibility.

The combination of Discovery Studio 1.6 and Pipeline Pilot provides the ability to create and manage computational protocols that capture and automate data processing routines. Users can quickly access protocols for protein modeling, receptor-ligand interactions, and simulation through either the Discovery Studio or Pipeline Pilot interface. Pipeline Pilot’s open architecture enables the creation and automation of customized protocols that can include diverse components, while Discovery Studio lets users access and execute those protocols from a powerful graphical environment and subsequently visualize, analyze, and export results.

A host of visualization enhancements in this release help users optimize their working environment and gain further insight about their structures. Other developments include a CHARMm-based docking refinement algorithm, ability to save and re-use forcefield files, new functionality for automated homology model generation and a rich graphical interface to GOLD–a genetic algorithm-based docking program from Accelrys partner, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC).

CCDC Development Director Robin Taylor commented on the new GOLD interface, “Customers using programs from different software vendors need them to work together smoothly, and have a right to expect vendors to cooperate in achieving this. We are therefore delighted that Accelrys has provided a rich graphical interface in Discovery Studio to GOLD, allowing Discovery Studio users transparent access to our popular docking software.”

“Feedback from beta testing of Discovery Studio 1.6 has been very positive,” said Accelrys’ President and Chief Executive Officer Mark J. Emkjer. “The availability of robust functionality from one interface, combined with ongoing scientific development and an open architecture that enables integration of software from other providers, makes Discovery Studio a powerful solution for easily accessing the diverse range of software today’s researchers need.”

For more information about Discovery Studio 1.6 or to download the free visualization component, DS Visualizer 1.6, please visit our website at www.accelrys.com.

About Accelrys, Inc.

Accelrys has over twenty years of innovation and technology leadership in delivering software and service solutions that transform discovery and development research. A unique combination of expertise in life and materials science, informatics, and scientific operating platform technologies, lets Accelrys serve a diverse range of clients, including some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, and nanotechnology research organizations. SciTegic, Inc., a division of Accelrys, has pioneered a new technology called “data pipelining,” which enables researchers to integrate and process data from traditionally incompatible sources. Accelrys is headquartered in San Diego, California. For more information about Accelrys, visit its website at http://www.accelrys.com/.