July 2007 eFlash

Events:	Announcing the Accelrys Science Forum Series ACS Regional Meeting: Surface Catalysis Lecture 2007 Nanotechnology Consortium Annual Meeting 2007 SciTegic European User Group Meeting Accelrys Accord European User Group Meeting
Case Study:	Drug Discovery Data Management at Summit
Webinars:	Enhancing Your High Content Analysis Workflows Accelerating Your Nanotechnology Research Analysis of Powder X-ray Diffraction Data
Latest at the Accelrys Community:	New Discovery Studio and Materials Studio Scripts & Protocols
Product News:	Accord Enterprise Informatics (AEI) 6.2 Released Accelrys Protecting Groups 2007.1 Database
Upcoming Conferences:	ISMB/ECCB 2007 Drug Discovery & Selection Conference Listings
Product Training:	Ongoing Training Opportunities

Events

Save the Date: Announcing the Accelrys Science Forum Series
US and Europe, September-November, 2007
Join us for a one-day computational science forum being held at various locations across the US and Europe. You'll have the opportunity to learn how leading scientists in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech and Chemicals/Materials industries are applying cutting-edge computational solutions for modeling and simulation, informatics, and data integration & reporting. Hand-on computer labs will be available for you to get an up-close look at some of the latest software that can help address your research needs. There is no fee to attend these events. The agenda at each location will be unique, bringing the most relevant guest speakers from the region.

ACS Regional Meeting: Surface Catalysis Lecture
San Diego, CA - August 28, 2007
Join us at the Accelrys office in San Diego when Accelrys will host the monthly meeting of the local ACS. Dr. David Kronmiller of the Quantum Group will give a lecture on Surface Science. Social hour with food & beverages starts at 6:00 PM. For details and registration contact the San Diego ACS reservations number, 619-687-5570.

The 2007 Nanotechnology Consortium Annual Meeting
Dublin, Ireland – September 10-12, 2007
The 2007 Nanotechnology Consortium Annual Meeting will be held at the University College Dublin ( Ireland ) between the 10 th and the 12 th of September. The first two days of the meeting will be exclusively for members and will focus on Phase I developments: Nano Builders, Adsorption Locator, GULP, QMERA (QM/MM) and ONETEP. During the first day, members and scientific advisors will give presentations, while on the second day members will attend hands-on-sessions where they can test the latest software. During the final day, the meeting will be opened to anybody interested in the Nanotech Consortium. At this time, the new developments proposed for Phase II will be discussed: further QM/MM development, DFTB, Kinetic Monte Carlo, etc.
Details and Registration >>>

The 2007 SciTegic European User Group Meeting – Call for Papers
Pistoia, Italy – October 10-12, 2007(optional training Oct. 8-10)
Accelrys invites you to the 5th annual SciTegic European User Group Meeting, which will take place in the historic town of Pistoia, Italy from Wednesday, October 10th to Friday, October 12th. Optional training courses will be offered Monday, October 8th - Wednesday, October 10th. The meeting and optional training sessions are designed to make you more successful at using Pipeline Pilot applications, with an emphasis on solving real world problems. Our aim is to create a collaborative environment for training new Pipeline Pilot users and for introducing new ideas to established users.
Details >>>

Accelrys 2007 Accord European User Group Meeting - Call for Papers
Pistoia, Italy - October 9-10 2007
The 2007 Accord European User Group Meeting will be held in Pistoia, Italy from Tuesday, October 9th to Wednesday, October 10th, 2007. An open lab will be held on Tuesday morning where you can meet with Accord experts, explore the software and address your problems. The meeting will feature a variety of presentations from Accord users covering all aspects of their use of the Accord product range. Accord staff will also be on hand to present information on the latest product developments and solicit input on future developments from meeting attendees. The meeting will be free to attend and will include complimentary registration for the first afternoon of the SciTegic User Group Meeting, which will be taking place at the same location. Details >>>

Case Study

Drug Discovery Data Management at Summit
Find out how Summit (formerly VASTox) uses the combined power of Accord Enterprise Informatics and the Accord Enterprise Webkit to provide a web-based "one-stop-shop" for their research data, empowering their scientists and managers to operate more effectively and make decisions quicker.
Download the Full Case Study >>>

Webinars

Enhancing Your High Content Analysis Workflows
Webinar Series, July-August 2007
Improve the way you work with your high content analysis Data by visually building workflows that analyze your data sources and produce interactive reports. This webinar series will demonstrate several applications of Pipeline Pilot for images and associated data. You'll learn how you can validate data and reduce result variability with an automated and uniform application of business rules, build customized interfaces, drill down to raw image data, and make QC decisions with greater confidence. Join us to learn more in the following areas:

July 18, 2007: Enabling Effective High Content Analysis Data Processing with Pipeline Pilot
July 25, 2007: Using Visual Programming for Automating Image Processing in High Content Analysis
August 1, 2007: Improving Your High Content Analysis Data Interaction with Dashboards

Registration and Details >>>

Accelerating Nanotechnology Research
Webinar – July 10, 2007
Since its inception in 2004, the Accelrys Nanotechnology Consortium has delivered a range of cutting-edge software tools to meet the challenges of rational nanodesign. Following a very successful Phase I, supported by over 25 members worldwide, Accelrys is now launching Phase II.

Join us in this upcoming webinar to review the successes of Phase I and find out about the next step in Computer Aided Nanodesign^TM. The second phase of the Nanotechnology Consortium will include several new exciting developments: further QM/MM development, Tight Binding DFT, Kinetic Monte Carlo and much more! Learn how you can have the opportunity to work in collaboration with scientific thought-leaders to steer Accelrys' development of leading-edge modeling and simulation technology. Details and Registration >>>

New Developments for the Analysis of Powder X-ray Diffraction Data: Automation, Quantification, and Data Pipelining
Webinar - July 31, 2007
Powder X-ray diffraction is considered the gold standard for identifying and quantifying constituents in solid samples. This webinar will provide an overview of how computational tools can be used to characterize powder samples to identify crystal forms, understand mixtures of crystalline phases, and to extract information about the degree of crystallinity of the sample. These analyses can be streamlined and automated through scripting capabilities in Materials Studio and integration with Pipeline Pilot. Join us to learn more about the powerful potential of these automation tools and the advanced capabilities for X-ray diffraction analysis with Materials Studio.
Details and Registration >>>

Latest at the Accelrys Community

New Discovery Studio and Materials Studio Scripts & Protocols
The Accelrys Community website provides the opportunity for users to share and download scripts and Pipeline Pilot components written by both users and Accelrys scientists. To view details and download the components and scripts, you must first register to become a member.
Here is the latest:

A simple script to export in the XYZ format from Materials Studio. Download it here >>>
A script to extract various protein internals such as backbone and disulfide bridge bond lengths and display them in the Molecular Data Table. Download it here >>>
Protocols for evaluating the performance of different conformational model generation algorithms. One protocol can be used to compare and evaluate the performance of four conformational model generation algorithms available from Accelrys. Download it here >>> The other will evaluate the performance of a 3rd party conformer generation algorithm and directly compare the analysis results with the Accelrys algorithms. Download it here >>>

Product News

Accord Enterprise Informatics (AEI) 6.2 Released
AEI is an off-the-shelf, Oracle-based, enterprise-wide solution that you can use to manage and store corporate chemical, biological and inventory data. Version 6.2 incorporates the latest version of the Accord Chemistry Cartridge to provide you with faster substructure searching, support for new chemistry query types, and the ability to use multiple processors when searching in order to let you to maximize your investment in multiple CPU-based hardware. More information >>>

Accelrys Protecting Groups 2007.1 Database Now Available
Protecting Groups provides you with an invaluable reference source for use when planning chemical syntheses. Version 2007.1 contains the additional details of three thousand newly published reactions (up to September 2006) to provide you with the most up-to-date reference source on protecting group chemistry available.
More information >>>

Upcoming Conferences

International Society for Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB)
July 25-27, 2007 - Boston, MA
Join us at the Accelrys booth to learn more about our latest computational solutions for life science research, including new enhancements to protein-protein docking with ZDOCK and RDOCK, the fastest and most accurate docking algorithms available today. While you're there, enter to win a hand-held GPS and pick up your free copy of DS Visualizer, which provides a rich set of molecular visualization tools, and includes DS Visualizer ActiveX Control for interactive 3D presentations.

Drug Discovery & Selection - July 4-5, 2007 - Lille, France
Dr. Renaud Feix of Accelrys will be presenting a poster entitled, "A Pharmacophore-Based Approach for Activity Profiling for Bio-Active Molecules." Stop by and speak with Renaud to learn more about Accelrys' pharmacological profiling solutions. If you would like to arrange an individual meeting, contact Renaud at rfeix@accelrys.com

Conferences Listings
In the coming months, visit us at the following conferences:

ISMB/ECCB 2007 (July 21-25; Vienna, Austria)
DDT World Congress (August 6-9; Boston, MA)
ACS Fall 2007 ( August 20-22; Boston, MA)

For the most up-to-date info on our attendance at industry conferences, visit our website >>>

Product Training

Ongoing Training Opportunities
Accelrys offers ongoing training in Life Science , Materials Science , Bioinformatics , Cheminformatics and Pipeline Pilot.

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