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Accelrys announces new unified product suite for biology assay and study management needs

Strategic collaboration with The Edge offers end-to-end biology data management and analysis solutions

ATHENS, Greece--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced a strategic collaboration with The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. to offer new assay, study management and analysis software solutions that improve R&D efficiency and productivity for biopharmaceutical organizations engaged in early-stage screening through ADME, DMPK, pharmacology and in vivo experimentation.

Under the terms of the agreement, Accelrys will market and sell software products developed in collaboration with The Edge under the following names:

Accelrys BioRails DM Suite for general assay and study data management;
Accelrys BioRails PTO for project tracking and optimization of experiments in BioRails;
Accelrys Morphit for capturing, analyzing and modeling biological study data.

Accelrys and The Edge will also work to integrate Morphit and BioRails components with Symyx Notebook by Accelrys to deliver flexible templates for structured data management and scientific analysis.

"The new biology data management and analysis solutions made possible by our partnership with The Edge are the next step in building a comprehensive informatics and experiment tracking solution for the biopharmaceutical industry," said Accelrys President and Chief Executive Officer Max Carnecchia . "By combining the strengths of Symyx Notebook by Accelrys for capturing, managing and reporting unstructured scientific information with The Edge software for capturing, analyzing and managing structured bioassay data, we now offer our customers a best-in-class solution for biology data management."

"With The Edge's focus on workflow optimization and improving the productivity of study scientists, we are pleased and excited to be collaborating with Accelrys to bring everything a biologist needs into a single, unified suite," said Andrew Lemon , managing director, The Edge. "Our design approach has been to minimize complexity and maximize the ease with which scientific data can be captured, which aligns very clearly with Accelrys' product development philosophy. This, in combination with Accelrys' proven track record of strong product, customer and partner support makes them the right company to engage with in a strategic collaboration."

These new biology data management solutions complement Accelrys' recently announced Cheminformatics Suite of software applications. To learn more about the new Accelrys BioRails products, register for our upcoming webinar, "Biological Data Management with the New Accelrys BioRails Products," scheduled for Dec. 8, 2011.

About Accelrys, Inc.

Accelrys (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, supports industries and organizations that rely on science as a differentiator. 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. Through its Enterprise R&D Architecture and market-leading electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs), Accelrys enables scientific innovators to access, organize, analyze and share data in unprecedented ways, 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 pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, aerospace, consumer packaged goods and industrial products industries and employs approximately 150 full-time Ph.D. scientists. For more information aboutAccelrys, visit www.accelrys.com.

About The Edge Consultancy

The Edge provides professional enterprise and desktop solutions and services in support of the biological research and development. Its integrated product suite focuses of on improving productivity at the bench whilst enabling enterprise sharing and exploitation of results. Solutions can be deployed to the desktop, intranet, and or cloud, facilitating collaboration and improved efficiency in a modern R&D environment.

Headquartered in Guildford, Surrey, UK, The Edge has pharmaceutical customers from Europe and the US. For more information about The Edge visit www.edge-ka.com/.

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Growth in 2011

Today The Edge announced that in the past year they have added three new global pharmaceutical companies to their list of customers.

Customer growth

An increasing number of organisations are recognising the level of innovation and expertise that The Edge provide.

A top 5 global pharmaceutical company are using BioRails LIMS to manage analytical services from high throughput chemist
A top 10 global pharmaceutical company are using BioRails Cascade to realise their goals for improving turnaround times and globalising project and assay workflow
A top 20 global pharameutical company are using BioRails LIMS/ELN to facilitate data management across in vivo, in vitro and analytical chemistry business functions together with Translational Medicine

These companies come to The Edge because we offer higher levels of innovation, more flexibility and better value for money than our competitors. This is recognised by our customers, market commentators, collaborators and partners across the world.

We have also added a number of smaller organisation to our customer list and are experiencing a lot of excitement around innovative products such as Morphit our productivity tool for in vivo scientists and the Cascade module of BioRails.

Company Growth

In 2011 we have increased our staffing levels by 50% and look forward to reaching yet more customers during the rest of this year, either directly or through our partners and distributors across the globe.

The Edge Partners with Japanese Distributor

The Edge partners with Ryoka Systems Inc to bring The Edge’s modern innovative solutions to the Japanese market.

GUILDFORD, United Kingdom, The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd (“The Edge”), a leading provider of biological data management and Electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) solutions, today announced a partnership with Ryoka Systems Inc(“Ryoka”). They will market The Edge software products to pharmaceutical companies in Japan.

Ryoka will market Morphit a high productivity spreadsheet focused on increasing productivity in preclinical research and development. Morphit combines flexible data capture with advanced analysis capabilities. Morphit can be used for a huge range of studies from routine dose response screening to complex behavioural studies. Its flexible design means a single Morphit document can be applied to a wide range of studies allowing scientists to vary conditions and capture new observations as they are identified.

Data from these studies can be shared and exploited using the BioRails platform, a suite of products focused on capturing and sharing knowledge gained from biological research. These include BioRails ELN, a collaborative electronic laboratory notebook, BioRails LIMS, a modern scalable data management system, BioRails MDM, a master data management system used to increase data quality, and BioRails Cascade, a unique solution for optimising the research cascade.

"The Edge has been very responsive in addressing the needs of the Japanese market" said Junichi Goto, Executive Officer,
Science & Technology System Division, Ryoka Systems Inc. "We’ve found their solutions to be highly innovative and are very excited about introducing these solutions to Japanese customers."

"We are very pleased to be working with a high quality organisation like Ryoka Systems Inc.", said Dr Andrew Lemon, CEO at The Edge. "The Japanese market is important to us, identifying the right partner was fundamental to reaching customers in Japan."

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The Edge is a multidisciplinary consulting and software company based on Guildford, UK. They specialise in modern integrative solutions and services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

Morphit: Spreadsheets just evolved!

Morphit is a new type of spreadsheet delivering dramatic increases in productivity for business and scientific users of spreadsheets. Morphit combines data capture and powerful analysis capabilities in one package.

The Edge Nov 03, 2009 – Today business analysts, scientists and general spreadsheet users can dramatically increase their productivity with Morphit an evolution in spreadsheet design empowering users to work smarter and faster than with traditional spreadsheets. Combining data capture and analysis Morphit brings powerful data analysis to your finger tips.

Based on experience from the pharmaceutical industry The Edge have evolved the spreadsheet to address many of the common issues with traditional spreadsheets. The spreadsheet has seen relatively little improvement of the past 20 years and Morphit marks a significant evolution. Easier to audit and less error prone, it adapts to changes in your data.

The Edge are offering a free 30 day trial of Morphit with sample spreadsheets and instructions on how to build and use Morphit documents.

Visit http://www.edge-ka.com/downloads/ to download or read the introductory article.

"The spreadsheet is one of the most important productivity tools to emerge from the IT revolution but has undergone relatively little development until now", said Andrew Lemon, Managing Director at The Edge, "Morphit combines a familiar spreadsheet with new powerful methods of capturing and analysing data. Importantly it is an evolution rather than a revolution in design making it accessible to general spreadsheet users."

The Edge and ChemAxon collaborate to add chemistry to their Morphit spreadsheet technology

Morphit - the high productivity spreadsheet for pharmaceutical research is enhanced by the addition of a chemistry plug-in allowing chemistry data to be captured and analysed with ChemAxon’s JChem and Marvin technology

GUILDFORD, United Kingdom, BUDAPEST, Hungary January 18^th 2010 - The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd, a leading provider of biological data management and Electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) systems, and ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for cheminformatics, today announced the addition of a new chemistry plug-in to Morphit, a new spreadsheet technology. Morphit addresses many of the common issues with traditional spreadsheets allowing scientists to capture and analyse data from a broad range of disciplines. Morphit spreadsheets can be specialised with additional plug-ins to deal with many scientific areas such as Formulations, Screening, Preclinical safety testing and Pharmacokinetics. Additional tools for curve fitting, statistical analysis and now visualisation of chemical structures can be utilised directly within the spreadsheet.

The chemistry plug-in gives scientists the ability to capture and manipulate chemical information within the Morphit spreadsheet environment. This is the first of a series of plug-ins to the new spreadsheet technology in support of scientific research. The Chemistry plug-in is powered by ChemAxon’s JChem cheminformatics toolkit and can be used in combination with the curve fitting plug-in to address the needs of drug discovery scientists for primary and dose response screening. Resulting IC50 values can be uploaded into corporate databases ready for SAR analysis.

"ChemAxon technology is well suited to extending the capabilities of modern software products like Morphit" said Alex Drijver, CEO at ChemAxon. "We are excited to be involved with innovative products like this, and to add the Edge to the already broad range of companies who have ChemAxon as their first choice for chemistry functionality.

Morphit has evolved from the classic spreadsheet paradigm, making it accessible to users familiar with traditional spreadsheets whilst offering many new and exciting possibilities for capturing and analysing data. Why not try Morphit today by downloading the free 30 day trial version http://www.edge-ka.com/downloads/. Morphit delivers productivity increases to many scientists whether used standalone or in combination with an enterprise electronic laboratory notebooks such as the BioRails ELN.

"The greatest business challenge for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies is how to raise the productivity of scientists without stifling innovation.", said Dr Andrew Lemon, CEO at The Edge. "Morphit addresses this need head on empowering scientists to capture, analyse and make decisions on their data."

The Edge Software consultancy is a multidisciplinary consulting and software company based on Guildford, UK. They specialise in software and services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

ChemAxon is a leader in providing cheminformatics software development platforms and applications for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. With core capabilities for structure visualization, search and management, property prediction, virtual synthesis, screening and drug design, ChemAxon focuses upon active interaction with users and software portability to create powerful, cost effective cross platform solutions and programming interfaces to power modern cheminformatics and chemical communication. For more information please visit www.chemaxon.com.

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New products preview at IQPC ELN conference

The Edge will preview the latest release of its ELN and data management platform BioRails^TM

Guildford, UK September 24^th, 2009 — The Edge, a premier provider of Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) and Data Management software, will preview its latest products at the meeting.

The Edge specialise in delivering software for protecting intellectual property and supporting scientists to increase their productivity. “This release marks a significant milestone in the development of the BioRails platform. Not only is it flexible enough to accommodate routine and non-routine science, but the BioRails ELN allows them to create defensible documentation of invention.”, said Dr Andrew Lemon, Managing Director of The Edge.

BioRails Cascade supports everyone involved in the drug discovery process from project teams to laboratory scientists. It makes the whole process more transparent and traceable.

Why not visit our stand and see for yourself?

About The Edge Software Consultancy

The Edge Software Consultancy is a multidisciplinary consulting organization offering solutions across all aspects of drug discovery information management. Its consultants are seasoned professionals offering the benefit of extensive real-world experience in drug discovery. The Edge offers a range of services including business process analysis, project management, requirements preparation, technical specification, implementation and testing. The consultancy is also known for its independent integration services and guidance on software selection and interoperability. Its unique approach identifies bottlenecks, concentrating on the goals of your scientists; targeting recovery of a day a week of your scientists’ time and to reduce the frustration that accompanies so many software users experience. For more information visit www.edge-ka.com.

BioRails usage expanding

From early screening to late stage in vivo BioRails is the single solution for all your biological data

Guildford, UK., February 19, 2009 — The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd, a leading provider of data & knowledge management solutions and services, today reported that the production usage of BioRails is increasing rapidly within adopting organisations. Originally selected as a solution for complex in vivo studies, customers have been quick to expand its usage into the rest of their biological research, replacing established data management software, reducing costs and increasing the cohension of information transfer between departments and across the research cascade.

The Edge specialise in assisting pharmaceutical organisations to increase productivity and raise efficiency both through knowledge-based services and effective software solutions such as BioRails. The Edge solutions focus on two levels; increasing the productivity of scientists in the laboratory and improving the quality of information across the enterprise through industry leading data management practices.

"We spend a lot of time emphasising the flexibility of BioRails in comparison to alternative approaches.", said Andrew Lemon, Managing Director of The Edge, "the proof is in the speed at which we're seeing scientists from across these organisations adopt the technology for their research."

The Edge principals have more than 40 years combined experience in designing and implementing software for pharmaceutical R&D organisations. Our consultants help organisations across the globe raise the bar when it comes to the quality of data.

About The Edge Software Consultancy

The Edge Software Consultancy is a multidisciplinary consulting organization offering solutions across all aspects of pharmaceutical R&D information management. Its consultants offer the benefit of extensive real-world experience in drug discovery. The Edge offers a range of services including business process analysis, project management, requirements preparation, technical specification, implementation and testing. The consultancy is also known for its independent integration services and guidance on software selection and interoperability. Its unique approach identifies bottlenecks, concentrating on the goals of your scientists; targeting recovery of a day a week of your scientists’ time and to reduce the frustration that accompanies so many software users experience. For more information visit www.edgesoftwareconsultancy.com.