the leading computational science company, delivers computational science software that analyzes and solves key research problems, and informatics tools that assist the management and mining of scientific data. The Materials Studio® product family is the leading nanotechnology software package. The recently (2004) launched Nanotechnology Consortium provides a project framework and a detailed scientific proposal that addresses the challenges of rational nanomaterials and nanodevice design. More

Accelrys (NASDAQ: ACCL) is a San Diego, United States-based software company specializing in research software for bioinformatics, cheminformatics, molecular simulation, and quantum mechanics. The company's main customer base consists of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as academic research groups. In addition to exclusive software tools, Accelrys sells commercial licenses and graphical user interface add-ons to otherwise academically licensed products such as CHARMM and MODELLER.