SAN DIEGO – Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced the release of the 6.6 version of Symyx Notebook by Accelrys.

Building on last year’s merger of Accelrys, Inc. and Symyx Technologies, Inc., as well as the combined company’s recently announced corporate strategy and underpinning Enterprise R&D Architecture, the latest release of the multi-disciplinary electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) offers out-of-the box integration with the Accelrys Pipeline Pilot™ Enterprise R&D Platform.

Seamless access to powerful Pipeline Pilot data analytics and reporting from within the ELN accelerates experiment design, execution, analysis and reporting in a collaborative project team environment.

The 6.6 notebook release also offers new capabilities for rapidly and efficiently designing and documenting chemical and biological formulations. When combined with the notebook’s existing process and analytical capabilities, the new formulations capabilities accelerate product development for scale-up production in the biopharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, agrochemicals and consumer packaged goods industries.

In addition, the release provides a new, built-in data source connection making it easier for scientists to connect Accelrys ELN experiment repositories with Accelrys Isentris® decision support software. Through Isentris, scientists can combine results from notebook experiments with other sources of information, gaining access to information that leads to fewer repeated experiments, less re-invention, improved insight into experiment design, and better decisions.

Enabling the scientific enterprise, driving scientific productivity

“Symyx Notebook by Accelrys is a unique enterprise ELN that offers robust capabilities across multiple scientific domains,” said Dr. Frank Brown, senior vice president and chief science officer at Accelrys. “Integrating the ELN with Pipeline Pilot extends the notebook with over 3,500 validated scientific components, accelerating scientific workflows, data retrieval and manipulation, computational filtering, visualization, reporting and other critical tasks. This is a great example of how Accelrys’ new, unified Enterprise R&D Architecture is bringing remarkable value to our customers and the market as a whole.”

Pipeline Pilot offers a rich library of chemistry and biology components for delivering design of experiments, statistics, image analytics, analytical data processing, next generation sequencing, modeling and simulation, data integration/reporting/visualization and other key capabilities. The flexible Pipeline Pilot development environment and extensive component collections enable organizations to deploy productivity-enhancing capabilities quickly and cost-effectively to a broad range of scientists using the ELN.

For more information about Symyx Notebook by Accelrys, visit accelrys.com/eln.

About Accelrys Enterprise R&D Architecture

The Accelrys Enterprise R&D Architecture enables industries and organizations that rely on scientific innovation as their key differentiator to bring new products from lab to market more quickly and efficiently by enhancing productivity, reducing costs, and improving compliance across the R&D value chain. The architecture combines the product portfolios of Accelrys and Symyx Technologies into a broad solution set with configurable applications that can be tailored to optimize capabilities in Modeling and Simulation, Enterprise Lab Management, Workflow Definition and Capture, and Data Management and Informatics. Built on the Pipeline Pilot™ Enterprise R&D Platform, the architecture leverages Accelrys’ deep domain expertise in chemistry, biology, and materials science to integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes, and information requirements encountered across the research, development, process scale-up, and early manufacturing phases of product development.

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.