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Welcome to eFlash, the monthly Accelrys newsletter that provides the latest news on product releases, events, resources, and more. In this month's issue:
- October Feature: Accelrys EUGM Less Than 3 Weeks Away!
- Product News:
- Upcoming Events:
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- Featured Videos:
There are less than three weeks left to register for the 2010 Accelrys EUGM. Don't miss three days packed with best-practice presentations, user talks, product demos, and the opportunity to hear Accelrys executives outline our new shared vision, integration plans, product roadmap, and expectations for moving forward following the merger with Symyx.
Materials Studio 5.5—Transforming Chemicals and Materials Research
We recently announced the latest version of Materials Studio, our high performance modeling and simulation software for chemicals and materials research. Materials Studio 5.5 enables scientists to explore design space more efficiently and effectively in applications from alternative energy and opto-electronics to pharmaceutical development. This latest release enables you to improve experimentation efficiency, reduce project time with faster methods for screening of materials and automation of tasks, and save time analyzing and communicating results with new visualization features.
We invite you to learn more about how Accelrys continues to transform materials research:
Register for the Materials Studio 5.5 webinar series
Download "What’s New in Materials Studio"
Read the Materials Studio 5.5. Press Release
Accelrys Draw 4.0—Bridging Biology and Chemistry
Accelrys Draw 4.0 makes it possible for scientists to draw, edit, visualize, compare, and explore complex biological sequences, along with chemical structures and reactions—improving intellectual property management and operational efficiency in today’s increasingly interrelated chemical and biological research environment. Check it out today in a free, 30-day trial.
Accelrys Draw 4.0 makes chemically modified biological sequences accessible and understandable to scientists working in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, materials science, and consumer products sectors by making it possible for scientists to:
- Import sequence files from the Universal Protein (UniProt) Resource for viewing, editing, and interpretation
- Mutate and modify residues using standard and custom libraries of modifications
- Add custom residues and linkers, PEGylation, and natural and unnatural lactone and lactam formations
- Protect IP by registering modified sequences in a corporate database; duplicate checking, exact matching, molecular weight calculation, and substructure searching are all available with these structures
Accelrys Draw 4.0 now supports a unified registration system for molecules of any size, biologics, and formulations—and this unified system greatly reduces the complexity of end-to-end data aggregation.
Accelrys Draw 4.0 and the recently released Accelrys Direct 7.0 data cartridge together support a new hybrid representation that combines the best features of bioinformatics and cheminformatics notations. This hybrid representation improves multidisciplinary collaborative research by enabling scientists to register and retrieve molecules, reactions, and biomolecular sequences including peptides, oligonucleotides, and oligosaccharides. Scientists can also search for and view chemical modifications in sequences and develop structure-activity correlations in sequences.
Try Accelrys Draw 4.0 free for 30 days
Isentris 3.3—Delivering Improved Insight into Project Data
We are pleased to announce the latest release of our decision-support system Isentris, which drives better decision making by letting you retrieve critical R&D data along with commercially-available information—wherever, whenever, and however you need it.
Isentris 3.3 provides added visualization capabilities during the exploration and reporting of chemical and biological information. You can quickly and easily visualize trends, or identify critical information, while browsing large and often difficult-to-navigate project information.
Learn more about Isentris 3.3 by registering for the October 19th webinar, Delivering Visualization and Experiment-Analysis Capabilities for Decision Support. Get access to a single environment that meets your day-to-day visualization needs and helps you advance cross-experiment data searching, browsing, analysis, and reporting in today’s integrated electronic laboratory environment.
See how Isentris 3.3 empowers you to:
- See real-time trends, results, and outliers while exploring project and experiment information.
- Visualize graphical representations of search results directly within Isentris, including live 2D and 3D scatter plots and bar charts that enable drilling down to underlying data records.
- Enrich data and improve decisions by combining both in-house and public information from DiscoveryGate during data exploration and reporting
Haven't made the switch to Isentris? This webinar is the perfect opportunity for you to see how Accelrys' continued investment in industry-leading decision-support software helps drive faster, better informed decisions in scientific experimentation by enabling you to explore, compare, and report on scientific information captured in the Accelrys Lab Execution and Analysis (LEA) software suite, in electronic lab notebooks, in laboratory information management systems (LIMS), and in other in-house and online information management systems.
Register for the Isentris 3.3. WEBINAR
Pipeline Pilot User Survey—Your Chance to Win a Free iPad!
Enter to win a free iPad by completing a 15-minute survey on how you use Pipeline Pilot. Your responses will help us improve our product and service offerings.
Join Us at BioIT World Europe—Live or Virtually
(5-7 October 2010)
If you're headed to BioIT World Europe, visit us in the BioIT World Europe Pavilion and don't miss our presentation, A Scientific Platform for Enhancing Research and Development Productivity (Wednesday at 16:00), or our interactive discussion group on scientifically enabling the research desktop (Tuesday at 18:30). Even if you can't attend, you can still get the latest news and commentary by following our live tweets from the event (#BioIT10).
Follow our tweets from BioIT World Europe
Upcoming Webinars
Join us for the following upcoming webinars.![]() |
Unraveling the Secrets of Graphene by Multiscale Simulations October 7th, 7 am PDT (2 pm GMT) |
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Accelrys and Symyx Merger: The New Accelrys Vision and Product Roadmap October 14th, 6 am PDT (15:00 CET) or 10 am PDT (19:00 CET) |
Recent Blog Posts
- ELN or LIMS—Is That the Question?: See why you should move beyond acronyms and really assess what you (and your colleagues) need now and in the future.
- Why Paper is a Problem in Process Chemistry and Manufacturing: Read how research and QA teams at Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca used ELN adoption as a chance to improve workflows and regulatory compliance, instead of simply reproducing paper processes on glass.
- Trials—Randomization, Minimization, and Pareto Optimization: See how one field scientist's problem sparked the question of whether Pareto optimization has a role in trial design.
In the News
- Pipeline Pilot Earns Accelrys the 2010 Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation of the Year: We've been honored with this award because Pipeline Pilot distinguished itself from other solutions by allowing pharmaceutical, life science, and materials researchers alike to manage and synthesize information and create scope for incremental innovation.
- “Report—Software Makers Can Aid Tox21 Work” (FierceBiotech IT): Robert Walker, Accelrys' Senior Director for Government Programs, shares how Pipeline Pilot could help in federal programs that aim to predict how chemicals affect human health.
- "Speeding Translational Research: from 'Beaker to Bedside'" (Pharmaceutical Technology): Accelrys’ CSO Frank Brown explores how a more holistic and modern approach to scientific informatics helps R&D scientists streamline and accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and improve the success of their efforts in the face of changing treatment paradigms and a deluge of data. (Free registration required.)
Dr. Michael Doyle explains how Pipeline Pilot helps companies share innovation and expertise globally.
Dr. Lalitha Subramanian shares how Accelrys Contract Research Services can help you design better products.



