Accelrys and Agilent Technologies Enter Into Comprehensive Resale Agreement


Agreement to Reduce Cost, Complexity for Customers by Automating Data-Analysis and Reporting Tools in Biology, Chemistry and QA/QC

SAN DIEGO, Calif., and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 24, 2007

Accelrys Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL) and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced they have entered into a comprehensive resale agreement to enable the licensing and integration of their informatics products. The partnership covers the breadth of informatics portfolios of both companies and will enable customers in the pharmaceutical industry to enjoy unprecedented integration of laboratory data, experimental results and insights across the enterprise.

"This partnership will enable unparalleled integration of informatics products," said Bruce von Herrmann, Agilent vice president and general manager, Informatics Division. "It will significantly benefit pharmaceutical companies that want to spend less time integrating existing informatics solutions and more time developing new, more effective medicines."

Agilent and Accelrys will offer compatible and enhanced solutions incorporating their respective portfolios of informatics products. Accelrys will resell OpenLAB Enterprise Content Manager, Kalabie Electronic Lab Notebook, and GeneSpring gene expression solutions. Agilent will resell Accord cheminformatics solutions and Pipeline Pilot Scientific Operating Platform solutions.

"Partnering with Agilent allows us to provide a broader range of scientific business-intelligence solutions to our pharmaceutical customers," said Mark J. Emkjer, president and chief executive officer, Accelrys. "We're enabling them to gain deeper insights and make more informed decisions from their scientific data across the research and development continuum. Agilent's strength in Laboratory Informatics, QA/QC and manufacturing are a natural complement to Accelrys' expertise in research, early development and scientific data management,"

The combined solutions can be seen at the following events:

the Agilent Worldwide Laboratory Informatics Conference in Berlin on Sept. 25-26;
the ELNs - IQPC conference in Brussels on Sept. 26; and

the Accord Informatics and Scitegic Pipeline Pilot user group meeting in Pistoia, Italy, Oct. 9-12.

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2006. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.

About Accelrys

Accelrys develops and commercializes scientific business intelligence software for the integration, mining, analysis, modeling and simulation, management and interactive reporting of scientific data. Our solutions are used by biologists, chemists, materials scientists, and information technology professionals for product design as well as drug discovery and development. Our technology and services are designed to meet the needs of today's leading research and development organizations including leading commercial, government and academic organizations. For more information about Accelrys, visit its website at www.accelrys.com.

Contact:
Philomena Walsh,
Accelrys
+1 858 799 5440
pwalsh@accelrys.com

Stuart Matlow,
Agilent
+1 408 553 7191
stuart_matlow@agilent.com

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