FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 3, 2006.

ChemAxon Integrates JChem with SciTegic's Pipeline Pilot
Plug-ins to be made available for free to the life sciences community

October 3rd, 2006, Budapest, Hungary: ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for chemistry today announced the integration of ChemAxon JChem functionalities within SciTegic's Pipeline Pilot product. These plug-ins will be made available for free to life sciences researchers. Joint SciTegic and ChemAxon customers may now choose to access ChemAxon's discovery cheminformatics technologies from within SciTegic's Pipeline Pilot framework, leading to more efficient and repeatable discovery processes.
The plugins allow Pipeline Pilot users to incorporate ChemAxon functionality in their workflows. ChemAxon toolkit plugins currently include; MarvinSketch and MarvinView for editing and viewing chemical structures, JChem Base for database management and search, JChem Cartridge for accessing JChem directly from Oracle SQL, Standardizer which applies business rules for structure canonicalization and Calculator Plugins for structure based prediction.
"By coupling our technologies within a pipelining environment users can get the best of both worlds; the flexibility and enterprise performance from our toolkits and ease of experimental set-up, use and re-use that Pipeline Pilot offers," commented Ferenc Csizmadia, CEO of ChemAxon.
"Through the partnership with ChemAxon our customers will be able to solve more complex problems in chemistry research," says Mathew Hahn, Ph.D., General Manager of SciTegic. "Further, it is a testament to the commitment of SciTegic to make Pipeline Pilot an open and agnostic environment for application integration."

About ChemAxon
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 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

About SciTegic
SciTegic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), develops and markets informatics software to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company has pioneered a new technology approach called "Data Pipelining" to process research discovery data with unprecedented flexibility. This new methodology has established its utility by accelerating informatics research for thousands of users at hundreds of customer sites worldwide. Further information about SciTegic is available at: www.scitegic.com.