SAN DIEGO–Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, is pleased to announce that its annual European User Group Meeting (UGM) is being held from Oct. 11 to 13 at the Athenaeum Intercontinental Athens. The User Group Meeting offers attendees a unique forum for discussing industry trends and best practices with colleagues, keynote speakers and Accelrys executives while benefiting from expert user presentations, product demonstrations and workshops.

“Accelrys’ European User Group meeting in Athens is the last in a series of successful forums we’ve held for customers and partners this year,” said Max Carnecchia, president and CEO of Accelrys. “I am confident that this event, like those in North America, Korea and Japan, will give our attendees valuable insight into industry challenges, new ideas on how to apply technology to overcome obstacles in R&D and, of course, premier networking opportunities.”

Customers, partners and Accelrys scientific and product experts will present in the Laboratory Informatics track; the Life Science track; the Materials Science track; the Cheminformatics track; the Biology track; and the Lab Informatics/Pipeline Pilot IT track.

Currently slated presentations include:

•“Interacting with Complex Information Landscapes – Integration and Next-Generation User Interfaces,” by Bryn Roberts, Roche

•“Quality by Design – And the Need for Data Collection of Process Parameters,” by Christian Bernlind, AstraZeneca

•“Developability Index: A Rapid In Silico Tool for the Screening of Antibody Aggregation Propensity,” by Bernhard Helk, Novartis

•“A Companywide ELN as the Enabler for a Recipe-based Data Warehouse,” by Pascal Maes, Johnson & Johnson

•“Charge Injection Across Metal-organic Interfaces: Requirements for Computational Modeling,” by Florian von Wrochem, Sony

•“Informatics Driven API Route Design: From Concepts to Options to Selection,” by John Leonard, AstraZeneca

•“Thermochemical Design for Chemical & Materials Engineering,” by Steve Lustig, DuPont

•“Using the Next Generation Sequencing Collection to power Oxford Nanopore Technologies Sequencing Applications,” by Richard Carter, Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd.

Further presentations will be announced leading up the event. For more information about the 2011 Accelrys European User Group Meeting or to register for the UGM, visit https://accelrys.com/events/ugms/2011/europe/index.html.

About Accelrys, Inc.

Accelrys (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, supports industries and organizations that rely on scientific innovation to differentiate themselves. Accelrys’ Enterprise Research & Development Architecture, built on the industry-leading Pipeline Pilot™ platform, provides a broad, flexible scientific solution optimized to integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes and information requirements across the research, development, process scale-up and early manufacturing phases of product development. By incorporating capabilities in applications for modeling and simulation, enterprise lab management, workflow definition and capture, data management and informatics, Accelrys enables scientific innovators to access, organize, analyze and share data in unprecedented ways, ultimately enhancing innovation, improving productivity and compliance, reducing costs and speeding time from lab to market.

Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Accelrys has more than 1,300 customers in the life sciences, energy, chemical, aerospace, consumer products and industrial products industries and employs approximately 150 full-time PhD scientists. For more information about Accelrys, visit www.accelrys.com.