Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Tue, June 8, 2010
Mon, June 7, 2010 Accelrys Introduces the Materials Studio Collection for Pipeline Pilot
SAN DIEGO, CA and TOKYO--(Marketwire - June 7, 2010) - Accelrys Japan User Group Meeting -- [ Accelrys ], Inc. (
"Recent research by Gartner suggests that the need for predictive analytics will outpace available skill sets in 80 percent of organizations," said Dr. Frank Brown, senior vice president and chief science officer of Accelrys. "With the expertise required to develop advanced predictive models in short supply, organizations need better ways to capture this specialized knowledge. The Materials Studio Collection helps scientific R&D organizations close this critical gap by more effectively leveraging the skills of expert modelers, and making their research results more widely available to other scientists."
Predictive analytics with Materials Studio Collection allows for a streamlined approach to materials discovery, improving researchers' productivity so that scientists can spend more time on innovation and less on costly, unnecessary, laboratory experimentation. Compared to trial and error approaches, predictive models enable researchers to virtually explore a broad range of compound candidates, identify those not meeting the required specifications, and quickly narrow the search for the most promising leads. The integration of Accelrys Materials Studio with the Accelrys Pipeline Pilot platform makes it possible to capture best practices in the materials domain within automated scientific workflows -- eliminating human error, improving collaboration, while increasing productivity and research success rates.
"The Pipeline Pilot protocols developed with the Materials Studio Collection for our iCatDesign project literally save hours of time," said Dr. Misbah Sarwar, research scientist at Johnson-Matthey. "Typically, calculating the adsorption and segregation energies for all the materials would take around a day if done manually including plotting charts. The protocol does this in seconds. For the electrode potential protocol the time savings are even greater, since plotting the data for a group of metals at one potential is a laborious process, then investigating how the free energy profile changes as a function of potential takes even longer. I estimate the free energy protocol saves a couple of days work at least, not to mention minimizing human error." *
With the Materials Studio Collection, researchers can easily predict key properties, simulate analytical instrumentation and provide insights into the behavior of materials in areas such as catalysis, electronics, polymers and pharmaceutical discovery and development. Materials researchers now have the ability to seamlessly capture, automate and share their work and thus speed innovation and increase competitive advantage. Through the integration of different data types -- including solid-state materials data, in silico modeling results, reports, analytical instrumentation and other information -- Materials Studio Collection for Pipeline Pilot delivers a broad range of synergies previously unavailable to the scientific enterprise. Furthermore, informatics IT costs can be reduced as predictive analytics technology and other scientific informatics applications can be developed, deployed and integrated on the same platform.
Early uses of the Materials Studio Collection have already demonstrated the value of the solution for more rapid materials discovery and optimization. In one example, scientists at Accelrys and Mitsubishi Chemicals collaborated to identify lithium ion battery additives that could extend battery lifetime. The resulting work was published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal [ (M. Halls & K. Tasaki, Journal of Power Sources, v 195, pp 1472-1478, 2010) ], and demonstrated the suitability of this approach for screening large numbers of molecules. Additionally, the Accelrys Contract Research Service team has been working closely with several customers in the Chemical, CPG, Automotive and Aerospace industries, including the iCatDesign project with Johnson-Matthey.
Materials Studio Collection for Pipeline Pilot will be generally available at the end of June 2010. For more information on the Materials Studio Collection or to register for the upcoming web seminar series, please visit [ http://accelrys.com/products/pipeline-pilot/component-collections/materials.html ].
* The iCatDesign project was partly funded under Technology Strategy Board Project Number: /5/MAT/6/I/H0379C. The TSB is a business led executive non-departmental public body established by the British Government. Its role is to promote and support research into, and development and exploitation of, technology and innovation for the benefit of UK business, in order to increase economic growth and improve the quality of life. It is sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The iCATDesign project was published in a peer-reviewed journal [ (Gavartin, et al., Electrochemical Society Transactions, v. 25, pp1335-1344, 2009) ].
About Accelrys, Inc.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Accelrys develops scientific informatics software and solutions for the life sciences, energy, chemicals, aerospace, and consumer products [ industries ]. Customers include many Fortune 500 companies and other commercial entities, as well as academic and government entities. Accelrys has a vast portfolio of computer-aided design modeling and simulation offerings which assist customers in conducting scientific experiments 'in silico' in order to reduce the duration and cost of discovering and developing new drugs and materials. Its [ scientific informatics platform ] underlies the company's computer-aided design modeling and simulation offerings. The Accelrys platform can be used with both Accelrys and competitive products, as well as with customers' proprietary predictive science products. Its flexibility, ease-of-use and advanced chemical, text and image analysis and reporting capabilities enable customers to mine, aggregate, analyze and report scientific data from disparate sources, thereby better utilizing scientific data within their organizations. For more information about Accelrys, visit [ http://www.accelrys.com/ ].
