Dr. Frank Brown of Accelrys Inc. to Present at Nanotech Conference 2009

SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - April 29, 2009) -

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Nanotech 2009

Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today announced that Dr. Frank Brown, Chief Science Officer of Accelrys, will be presenting at the Nanotech Conference being held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, from May 3 to May 7, 2009. In a session titled "Scientific Business Intelligence for Nanotechnology" scheduled for Monday, May 4 at 1:30 p.m., Dr. Brown will address the challenges in integrating data and applications to help scientists and engineers make more informed decisions. He will also address how to use the same systems to better collaborate and share information across the enterprise.

Nanotech 2009 is the largest international nanotechnology conference and trade show in the world. The conference brings together specialists from a wide range of fields of science, technology and business. For more information on the conference, visit http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2009/

About Accelrys, Inc.

Headquartered in San Diego, California, Accelrys develops scientific business intelligence 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 business intelligence 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://accelrys.com/

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