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Accelrys: Accelrys Kicks Off Annual User Group Conference
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - February 18, 2009) - Accelrys, Inc. (
The conference will include presentations from customers including:
-- "Pareto Ligand Designer," Jim Metz, Abbott Labs -- "Automated Image-Based Data Mining for Ultra-High Content Screening," Michael Mancini, Sean Hartig, and Felicity Ashcroft; Baylor College of Medicine -- "Product Development and the Role of Computational Materials," Gerould Young, Boeing -- "E-Novo: An Automated Workflow for Efficient Structure-Based Lead Optimization," Brad Pearce, Bristol Myer Squibb
"We are very excited to launch our 2009 Annual User Group Conference," said Todd Johnson, president and CEO of Accelrys. "This conference creates a strong forum for our partners and customers to discuss industry and market trends so that we can better offer solutions that make processes involving scientific information more efficient, enabling companies to better leverage the vast amounts of data they possess. We're honored to have so many distinguished guests sharing their successes and exchanging ideas at our User Group Meeting."
For more information about the 2009 Accelrys User Group Conference, visit [ http://accelrys.com/events/ugms/ugm-2009/index.html ].
About Accelrys, Inc.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Accelrys develops scientific business intelligence software and solutions for the life sciences, energy, chemicals, aerospace, and consumer products industries. Customers include many Fortune 500 companies and other commercial entities, as well as academic and government entities. Accelrys offers a vast portfolio of computer-aided design modeling and simulation offerings which assist scientific and research-based organizations in conducting scientific experiments 'in silico' in order to reduce the duration and cost of discovering and developing new drugs and materials. Our scientific business intelligence platform underlies most of our computer-aided design modeling and simulation offerings. Our platform can be used with our products, our competitors' products and our customers' proprietary predictive science products. Its flexibility, ease-of-use and advanced chemical, text and image analysis and reporting capabilities enable our customers to mine, aggregate, analyze and report scientific data from disparate sources, thereby better utilizing scientific data within their organizations. For more information about Accelrys, visit [ http://accelrys.com/ ].
Forward-Looking Statements
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