Accelrys

Type	Public NASDAQ: ACCL
Founded	2001
Headquarters	San Diego, California, USA Cambridge, UK Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Todd Johnson, President and CEO Rick Russo,CFO David Mersten,Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Frank Brown Chief Science Officer
Industry	Life sciences, Materials science
Revenue	US$81 Million
Employees	400+
Website	www.accelrys.com

Accelrys (NASDAQ: ACCL) is a software company headquartered in the US, with representation in Europe and Japan. It provides software for chemical research, especially in the areas of drug discovery and materials science.

Accelrys started in 2001 from the fusion of five companies: Molecular Simulations Inc. (MSI), Synopsys Scientific Systems, Oxford Molecular, the Genetics Computer Group (GCG), and Synomics Ltd. In 2004, Accelrys acquired SciTegic, producer of the Pipeline Pilot software.^[1]

Accelrys manages a Nanotechnology Consortium producing software tools for rational nanodesign.^[2]

[edit] Products

• Pipeline Pilot, a program that serves as the connection of multiple pieces of software from different vendors, thus building a "pipeline".
• Accord, a cheminformatics platform.
• Materials Studio, a suite of programs for material science.
• Discovery Studio, a suite of programs for life sciences.

Commercial versions of otherwise academically licensed programs:

• CHARMM
• MODELLER

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Accelrys official homepage