Webinar Archive
Recordings of past webinars are available in Windows Media Video format.
Note: You should use Microsoft Internet Explorer browser (IE 6.0 with
SP1 or above) to view these recording. Recordings fall into into these
general categories:
Life Science Modeling and Simulations Webinars
Webinar Series: Scientific Advances in Discovery Studio 2.5
Learn how to improve your drug discovery research in this complimentary webinar series. Choose from eight different webinars delivered by leading researchers, academics and Accelrys scientists and discover:
- How scientists are solving computational drug discovery problems in the industry
- About the latest trends and modern methods in lead identification and optimization
- How you can access and use a combination of computational chemistry and biology tools, and effectively communicate your findings to your group
- How you can introduce and use CADD as an educational tool in academia
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Discovery Studio 2.1: New Science and Customized Workflows for Drug Discovery Research.
Leverage innovative science with an unrivaled ability to easily integrate any third-party algorithm or a relational database, and develop powerful solutions that are ideally tailored to fit your research workflow. Discovery Studio 2.1, the most advanced computational drug discovery environment available, features significant new science and usability enhancements. Access a novel QM/MM method for refining docked poses and optimizing specialized interaction motifs such as cation-pi interactions. Learn about enhanced capabilities to easily customize DS workflows with an unprecedented level and quality. Join Accelrys scientists for this exciting seven-part webinar series as they present the latest scientific advancements and usability upgrades available to help excel your drug discovery research.
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Scientific Advances in Discovery Studio 2.0 : Webinar Series
Access all the tools you need for drug discovery in one place. Learn
how you can access every tool you need for drug discovery in a single,
easy-to-use environment with Discovery Studio 2.0. This milestone release
includes a number of new scientific algorithms for tasks such as: pk prediction
for proteins, rational flexible docking, fragment-based design and activity
profiling, QSAR, protein-protein docking, and more. Join Accelrys scientists
as they unveil the cutting-edge scientific advances available in Discovery
Studio 2.0, the most sophisticated suite of modeling and simulation tools
ever assembled. View Webinar Abstracts
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Scientific Advances in Discovery Studio 1.7
Learn how you can access powerful tools for drug discovery in one easy-to-use
environment with Discovery Studio 1.7. In this recent series of webinars,
Accelrys scientists from R&D and product marketing reviewed what's
new in the latest release of Accelrys' interactive modeling and simulation
environment for life science researchers. Topics covered include the following.
- Introduction to What's New in Discovery Studio 1.7
- Conformational Analysis
- Structure-Based Pharmacophore
- Protein Refinement
- Flexible Docking
- Scripting
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Materials Science Modeling and Simulation
Exploring New Fuel Cell Materials: High Throughput Calculations and Data Analysis with Materials Studio 5.0 and Pipeline Pilot
The integration of Materials Studio applications such as CASTEP and the Pipeline Pilot platform opens a range of new possibilities for the discovery of new materials. Using Pipeline Pilot, it is possible to automate routine calculations; create web-based services to perform calculations; and integrate CASTEP calculations into large, complex workflows, where DFT is just one part of the solution. This approach will be discussed in detail and illustrated with an application of improved fuel cell oxidation catalysts.
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What's New in Materials Studio 5.0
With a focus on performance and property prediction, Materials Studio 5.0 gives a unique opportunity to shorten your time to solution. This webinar will highlight the new functionality in the following areas:
- Quantum mechanics - new CASTEP property prediction and new ONETEP performance improvements
- Classical simulations - performance improvements with new parallel Forcite and Mesocite and brand new Amorphous Cell with improved functionality and flexibility
- Advances in Nanotechnology Consortium tools
- Materials Studio on Pipeline Pilot
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What's New in Materials Studio 4.4: Simulate a Wider Range of Systems
Learn about new features in Materials Studio 4.4 that enable you to simulate a broader range of materials than ever before. Based on your feedback, new methods for mesoscopic simulations and computing core-level spectra are now available.
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Connecting Molecular Modeling with Engineering: First Principles Kinetic
Modeling in Catalysis
Learn how to connect molecular modeling with real process conditions
by bridging the gap between the atomistic and macroscopic/engineering
levels. As an expert in the field, Prof. Matthew Neurock of the University
of Virginia will be presenting how molecular modeling can be connected
with the engineering scale using Kinetic Monte Carlo. The basics of the
method and important industrial examples related to catalytic processing
will be presented.
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X-Ray Diffraction Analysis - Accessible throughout Your Organization
High quality computational tools are an invaluable resource for the
analysis of powder X-ray diffraction data. These tools can be used to
access important information about a sample, such as phase identity, mixture
composition, and the degree of crystallinity of a sample. View this webinar
to learn more about new solutions that will help you:
- Utilize high-quality computational tools for the analysis of power
x-ray diffraction data
- Create and automate workflows that can be shared throughout an organization
- Provide non-expert users with sophisticated analysis tools via web
deployment
- Integrate algorithms and applications to create truly customized solutions
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Successful Chemicals and Materials Design Webinar Series
Design and Optimization of Catalysts: Using Molecular Modeling to Improve
Performance
Molecular modeling has proven to be an effective tool in the design and
optimization of catalysts. Modern modeling approaches are applicable to
virtually all catalyst materials such as metallocenes, metal oxide surfaces,
or zeolites. This webinar will provide an overview of the ways that chemical
companies have benefited from using molecular modeling to understand reactions
and improve catalysts. Attendees will get an overview of the methods available,
as well as examples of how they can be applied to challenging industrial
research problems. Specific case studies will be taken from across the
chemical industry, including segments like petrochemicals, performance
polymers, coatings, and fine & specialty chemicals.
Best Practices in Molecular Modeling
The webinar, presented by Dr. Anne Chaka, the Division Chief for Computational
Chemistry at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg,
Maryland, shows you how organizations have succeeded or failed in their
use of modeling. This presentation shows you how you can use modeling
to solve the R&D challenges that are important to your organization.
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Let Today’s Technology Help You Develop Tomorrow's Drugs
Learn how the joint Accelrys and HP scientific computing solution can
help speed up the drug development process, as proven by success stories
in organizations such as AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, Sanofi-Aventis,
Taiho Pharmaceutical, Transform Pharmaceuticals, and more.
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the Let Today’s Technology Help You Develop Tomorrow's Drugs Webinar
Recording
Materials Studio Application Example Webinars
The Materials Studio software environment brings the world's most advanced
and validated materials simulation technology to desktop computing, solving
key problems throughout the R&D process. Learn more about the potential
applications of this solution in this series of webinars.
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Cheminformatics
Browse, Query, and Edit Your Own Chemistry Data through a Customizable Forms-Based Interface
Getting the most out of your chemistry databases with Accord Database Explorer 3.0
Most chemists are comfortable with using forms-based interfaces to interrogate
data from chemistry databases. Accord Database Explorer 3.0 (ADE 3.0)
is a fully-supported database client from Accelrys that provides you with
a dynamic, forms-based interface to browse, query and edit your own databases.
You will be able to access multiple databases either locally or centrally,
therefore enabling a slow transition to a more centrally organized infrastructure,
while keeping essential content data locally. Join us to learn how the
intuitive, easy-to-learn, and highly configurable ADE 3.0 offers a number
of key features that enable you to get the most from your data.
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How to Build Your Own Cheminformatics System: Meeting Your Needs, Putting You in Control
This webinar provided an introduction to Accord tools and components,
showing you how to customize in-house applications to deal with chemistry
or tailor your cheminformatics software to proprietary data types and
applications.
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Chemistry by Accord Webinar Mini Series
With Accord, software applications become chemically-intelligent. Three
themed webinars are available for anybody who uses chemical data:
- Chemistry and Excel - Extend the Range of your Calculations and Analysis
Tools.
- Improving Productivity in the Laboratory - Chemically-intelligent
Informatics Tools and Databases.
- Customizing and Deploying Chemistry-enabled Interfaces with the Accord
Enterprise Webkit.
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Nanotechnology and Nanobiology
Accelrys Nanotechnology Consortium: Launch of Phase II
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 to review the successes of Phase I and find out about the next
step in Computer Aided Nanodesign TM that will occur in Phase II, where
the focus will be aimed toward developing tools and protocols that bridge
the gap to engineering applications. 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.
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Data Integration and Reporting
Creating Competitive Advantage: Scientifically Enabling SharePoint with Pipeline Pilot
This seminar series will help Scientists, R&D Management and IT professionals better understand how Pipeline Pilot from Accelrys and Microsoft SharePoint are being used to streamline operations, increase productivity, and eliminate silos of scientific data in order to facilitate collaboration with both internal and external partners.
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Chemical Text Mining: Find Chemicals in Text using the ChemMining Collection
for Pipeline Pilot™
Learn how you can mine patents, full text articles, journal abstracts,
and internal document repositories to uncover context-specific data about
chemical structures of interest. These resources contain highly-valuable
information regarding chemical entities and related terms and concepts.
However, unlocking the value is often difficult due to the amount of information
available, as well as the complexities and subtleties of extracting information
in an automated process. The ChemMining Collection can help you extract
knowledge, save time, and avoid duplication of research efforts.
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Accelerating Discovery and Development Research -
Scientific Data Integration and Dashboards
Improve your scientific and business decisions by visually building
workflows that analyze diverse data sources and produce interactive reports.
This webinar series demonstrates how to integrate chemistry, sequence,
imaging, and text data within a powerful analytical environment. Examples
include drug pipeline status reports, biological assay data analyses,
and business analytics applications, demonstrating how to efficiently
meet your scientific and business objectives.
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Scientific Data Integration and Dashboards Webinar Recording
Imaging and High Content Analysis
Imaging Webinar Series – September, 2008
As organizations continually capture large amounts of image data, they are often faced with the challenge of managing disparate data from a variety of disconnected analytical instruments and incompatible image platforms. The process of analyzing and reviewing image data can be a tedious, error-prone, manual exercise. Such an inefficient process not only hinders productivity, but also restricts the knowledge needed to make well-informed decisions.
Imagine having a central data management platform that allows you to seamlessly integrate and standardize all your images and associated data. Rapidly develop and deploy flexible image processing workflows that allow you to retrieve exactly the data that you need, just the way you need it. Incorporate your results into customizable, interactive reports with superior drill-down capabilities to perform visual inspection and garner comprehensive analysis. As your research progresses, easily customize the platform to fit the needs of any project with any instrument. Join us for this four-part webinar series to learn how Accelrys imaging solutions can allow you to unlock the answers you need from your imaging data, be more productive, and make smarter, better-informed decisions.
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Enhancing Your High Content Analysis Workflows
(three-part webinar series)
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 and drill down
to raw image data, and make QC decisions with greater confidence.
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Enhance Your Image Processing and Analysis—Introducing the Advanced Imaging Collection for Pipeline Pilot
Enhance your image processing and analysis with the Advanced Imaging
Collection for Pipeline Pilot, which delivers new tools for learning
and clustering, manipulating multidimensional image sets, and enhancing
data processing of large image sets. Learn how you can put these new tools
to use by viewing two webinars that demonstrate several applications of
Pipeline Pilot for the processing of images and associated data.
The recordings include:
- Using Visual Programming for Advanced Image Processing
- Advanced Tools for Image Data Management and High Content Analysis
Data Interaction
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Achieve New Freedom in Your Image Processing & Reporting:
Introduction to the Pipeline Pilot Imaging Collection
Learn how you can easily create and automate customized imaging workflows
and unite image, numeric, chemical and textual data with the Imaging Component
Collection, available for use with Pipeline Pilot 6.0. By integrating
image data with numerical, chemical, graphical and textual data in a unified
computing framework, the Imaging Collection makes it easy for you to make
the most of all your data. This webinar introduced the data structure
and processing approach for images in Pipeline Pilot. This session presented
an imaging use-case, highlighting an integrated system for sample annotation,
quality control, data analysis, reporting and publishing as it applies
to High Content Screening. However, the Imaging Collection provides powerful
image handling and analysis tools for diverse types of imaging analyses
used in a variety of industries, making this webinar recording useful
for anyone interested in fast, scalable, and customizable image processing
and reporting functionality.
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Pipeline Pilot & Tripos Webinar: Building Powerful Workflows by Integrating Best-of-Breed Science
Learn how you can easily integrate software applications from different
vendors or tools developed in-house— thereby creating an integrated environment
that increases efficiency and makes it possible to address ever more complex
problems. This webinar presented an advanced integration environment—
Pipeline Pilot—and its deployment through a common and intuitive user
interface. The speakers showed the development of novel chemistry methods
using the Pipeline Pilot Molecular Toolkit, and inclusion of partners
components (such as those from Tripos) in powerful workflows.
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