ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2006--Tripos, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRPS - News), a leading provider of drug discovery informatics products and chemistry research, today announced the release of Benchware® 3D Explorer 2.2, an enhanced version of its premier application for the communication of 3-D chemical information. Benchware 3D Explorer empowers laboratory scientists to make more effective research decisions by allowing them to visualize, annotate, share and experiment with 3-D chemical structural information and the results of computational research.