Accelrys
Encyclopedia
Accelrys is a software company headquartered in the US
, with representation in Europe
and Japan
. It provides software for chemical, materials and bioscience research for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, energy and chemical industries.
Accelrys started in 2001 from the fusion of five companies: Molecular Simulations Inc. (MSI, itself a result of the combination of Biodesign, Cambridge Molecular Design, Polygen and, later, Biocad and Biosym Technologies), Synopsys Scientific Systems, Oxford Molecular, the Genetics Computer Group (GCG), and Synomics Ltd. In 2004, Accelrys acquired SciTegic
, producer of the Pipeline Pilot software. In 2010 Symyx Technologies
was merged with Accelrys. In May of 2011 the company acquired Contur Software AB, an electronic lab notebook software firm.
Accelrys manages a Nanotechnology
Consortium producing software tools for rational nanodesign.
Commercial versions of otherwise academically licensed programs:
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, with representation in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. It provides software for chemical, materials and bioscience research for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, energy and chemical industries.
Accelrys started in 2001 from the fusion of five companies: Molecular Simulations Inc. (MSI, itself a result of the combination of Biodesign, Cambridge Molecular Design, Polygen and, later, Biocad and Biosym Technologies), Synopsys Scientific Systems, Oxford Molecular, the Genetics Computer Group (GCG), and Synomics Ltd. In 2004, Accelrys acquired SciTegic
SciTegic
SciTegic is a San Diego-based software company that develops and markets informatics software to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. It was founded in February, 1999 by Matthew Hahn and David Rogers. SciTegic has pioneered a technology approach called "Data Pipelining" to flexibly...
, producer of the Pipeline Pilot software. In 2010 Symyx Technologies
Symyx Technologies
Symyx Technologies is a pioneer in the area of combinatorial chemistry applied to heterogeneous catalysis and homogeneous catalysis, polymer formulations, electronic and magnetic materials....
was merged with Accelrys. In May of 2011 the company acquired Contur Software AB, an electronic lab notebook software firm.
Accelrys manages a Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...
Consortium producing software tools for rational nanodesign.
Products
- Pipeline Pilot, a program that aggregates and provides immediate access to the volumes of disparate research data locked in silos, automates the scientific analysis of that data, and enables researchers to rapidly explore, visualize and report research results.
- Symyx Notebook by Accelrys, an electronic laboratory notebook.
- Materials StudioMaterials StudioMaterials Studio is software for simulating and modeling materials developed and distributed by Accelrys, a company specializing in research software for computational chemistry, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, molecular simulation, and quantum mechanics....
, a suite of modeling and simulation programs for material science. - Discovery Studio, a suite of modeling and simulation programs for life sciences.
Commercial versions of otherwise academically licensed programs:
- CHARMMCHARMMCHARMM is the name of a widely used set of force fields for molecular dynamics as well as the name for the molecular dynamics simulation and analysis package associated with them...
- MODELLERMODELLERMODELLER is a computer program used in producing homology models of protein tertiary structures as well as quaternary structures . It implements a technique inspired by nuclear magnetic resonance known as satisfaction of spatial restraints, by which a set of geometrical criteria are used to create...